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Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles

Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles

1978 • 28 min
A movie made for closed circuit television to be played in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Orson Welles explains the rules of various gaming,. Depictions of the talent and amenities at the hotels are also shown.
If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth a Fuck

If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth a Fuck

1978 • 51 min • United Kingdom
Legendary documentary of the 1977 package tour arranged by David Robinson and Andrew Jakeman ("Kake Riviera") after they founded Stiff Records in London, England for five of their artists, and the bands that they concocted for the tour.
Pink in the Drink

Pink in the Drink

1978 • 7 min • United States of America
The Pink Panther is scammed by a South Sea cruise, which turns out to be a pirate trap. He is then forced to do the captain's orders.
Impasse

Impasse

1978 • 10 min • United States of America
A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by Caroline and Frank Mouris, preserved in 2020 thanks to a collaborative effort between the Academy Film Archive and the Yale Film Archive.
Ölüm Yarışı

Ölüm Yarışı

1978 • 57 min • Turkey
A journalist's story of love and adventure as he uncovers the truth behind murders committed by the mafia.
David Bowie On Stage: Live in Japan

David Bowie On Stage: Live in Japan

1978 • 60 min
The Isolar II – The 1978 World Tour, more commonly known as The Low / Heroes World Tour or The Stage Tour, was a worldwide concert tour by David Bowie. The tour opened on 29 March 1978 at the San Diego Sports Arena continuing through North America, Europe and Australia before reaching a conclusion at the Nippon Budokan in Japan on 12 December 1978. This performance at the NHK Hall in Tokyo, Japan on 12 December 1978 was filmed and broadcast on Japanese TV's The Young Music Show. Song listing: Warszawa, Heroes, Fame, Beauty and the Beast, Five Years, Soul Love, Hang on to Yourself, Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Station to Station, TVC15.
Discover Britain by Train

Discover Britain by Train

1978 • 7 min • United Kingdom
Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train."
The Pepper

The Pepper

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union
An adventure detective film by Orest Bachmaha, a person with multiple characteristics. He is a creator in many senses. A film amateur, an artist, a photographer, a poet, and a master trying to create on his own the things he uses. He was born and lives in Vynnyky. Most of his life, he has worked as a photographer and a decorator for exhibitions in Lviv Art Gallery. At some point in time, Orest Bachmaha got enthusiastic about filmmaking and developed an 8mm camera. However, he failed to complete it as the cinefilm changed the format to Super8. Also, he built several modifications for film projects, with all the details and the incorporated audio block.
Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist

Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist

1978 • 59 min • Germany, United Kingdom
Documentary on the life and career of violinist Itzhak Perlman, including interviews, archival footage, and concert performances.
European Diary ’78

European Diary ’78

1978 • 13 min • United States of America
Filmed in the south of France and in Paris at the end of August and the beginning of September 1978.
The Presence II

The Presence II

1978 • 12 min • Hungary
An exploration of a decaying synagogue.
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre

The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre

1978 • 11 min • United States of America
The Black Contribution – Literature and Theater 1978 is a rare documentary highlighting the voices and cultural impact of African American writers and performers during the civil rights era. Introduced by NAACP leader Benjamin Hooks and narrated by Roscoe Lee Brown, the film weaves together dramatic readings, theatrical excerpts, and candid urban street footage. Margaret Walker’s poem For My People is performed alongside scenes of daily Black life in New York City — children playing, families on stoops, open fire hydrants, and the realities of poverty in 1970s neighborhoods. James Baldwin appears in interview footage, while signs for his play The Amen Corner and stage excerpts from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun underscore the powerful presence of Black voices in American theater. With rare shots of Harlem life, literature, and performance, this film documents the enduring contributions of African American artists to U.S. culture and history.
Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe

Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe

1978 • 51 min • South Africa, United Kingdom
A documentary covering the Second Chimurenga, the Zimbabwean War of Liberation.
The Honeymooners Specials: Valentine Special

The Honeymooners Specials: Valentine Special

1978 • 50 min • United States of America
Hinterland Who's Who: The Greater Snow Goose

Hinterland Who's Who: The Greater Snow Goose

1978 • 1 min • Canada
This very short documentary film depicts the spring and fall migratory visits of snow geese to Cap Tourmente, Québec.
A School for Life!

A School for Life!

1978 • 33 min • Denmark
A satirical presentation of the public school debate, exhibiting three different teaching methods. First, the authoritarian education system of old; Second, a more modern form, combining theory and practice; and finally, the teacher's nightmare, where children are taught only the necessities for modern life: sales techniques, status symbols, and how to (quite literally) elbow your way to the top.
Duplicity II

Duplicity II

1978 • 20 min • United States of America
This, the second film of the continuing autobiographical Duplicity series, is composed of superimpositions much as the mind "dupes" remembered experience into some semblance of, say, composed surety rather than imbalanced accuracy - as thought may even warp "scene" into symmetry, or "face" into multitudinous mask. What will have been becomes what will be being. I've tried to "give the lie" to this genesis of all white-lying.
Azizam Tavalodet Mobarak

Azizam Tavalodet Mobarak

1978 • 50 min
A television theater written and directed by Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
Lougarou de Nouillorque

Lougarou de Nouillorque

1978 • 16 min • United States of America
Film in three parts: (1) Paranorama 3 and 4: a handmade Région Centrale. At once observation and description of the realm of vision, of what is possible to see (sound recorded at the time of shooting). (2) Paranorama 5: simple observation of the realm of vision (sound added at a later time: illustration). (3) Pierre Rivière and I: attempt at reading the first lines from Pierre Rivière's testimony, as an embodiment rather than a stage direction.
Ingmar Bergman at 60

Ingmar Bergman at 60

1978 • 57 min • United Kingdom
Documentary about the Swedish film director, produced for the UK television program "The South Bank."
Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

1978 • 6 min • Soviet Union, United States of America
Collaboration with Nam June Paik and Dimitri Devyatkin, combining footage from the US and Russia: Brezhnev on TV, a May Day parade, veterans in the park. The film was shown internationally in New York.
Dangerous Ambition

Dangerous Ambition

1978 • 30 min • United Kingdom
Daniel Massey stars as a priest who faces a crisis when the local community turns against him after he is suspected of molesting a young girl who he befriends on a local housing estate.
A Banda

A Banda

1978 • 10 min • Brazil
The existence of a musical band and its importance to the community.
For Eyes Only

For Eyes Only

1978 • 3 min • France