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First Winter

First Winter

1978 • 7 min • Soviet Union
The story is about a little bear who has never seen winter and wanted to know what would happen after the end of autumn. The bear cub approaches the wolf with questions, who said that winter will come after autumn and everything will be covered with snow. The mole did not hear the bear's questions about winter, because his ears were filled with earth. At the end of autumn, the bear falls into hibernation and has a fantastic dream.
The Origin of Motion Picture

The Origin of Motion Picture

1978 • 4 min • Japan
Experimental short by Jun'ichi Okuyama.
Asdrúbal, O que há com seu peru?

Asdrúbal, O que há com seu peru?

1978 • 7 min
Asdrúbal is the zoo sweeper, the handyman. One day, when he was feeding the turkeys, he noticed that one of them was talking.
The Dogs

The Dogs

1978 • 4 min
A talent agent pitches a singing dog act.
The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

1978 • 52 min • Japan
Tom Canty, the youngest child of a very poor family living in Offal Court in London, sees one day Edward Tudor, the Prince of Wales. Coming too close in his intense excitement, he is caught and nearly beaten by the royal guards. However, Edward stops them and invites Tom into his palace chamber. There, the two boys get to know one another and are fascinated by each other's lives. They have an uncanny resemblance to each other, so they decide to swap clothes "temporarily". But things turn out differently.
Oh My Darling...

Oh My Darling...

1978 • 7 min • Netherlands
An Oscar nominated animated short about the relationship between children and their parents.
Rock Goes To College: AC/DC

Rock Goes To College: AC/DC

1978 • 42 min
AC/DC in a blistering performance on 10 November 1978, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex. Rock Goes To College (RGTC) was a BBC series that ran between 1978 and 1981 on British television. A variety of up-coming rock oriented bands were showcased live from small venues and broadcast simultaneously on television and radio during.
A Present for the Weakest

A Present for the Weakest

1978 • 11 min • Soviet Union
After watching the show "In the World of Animals", the king of beasts feels sorry for the weakest animal, the bunny, and decides to send a gift by mail "for the weakest". Once word gets out, every beast is keen to appear worthy of receiving the package.
My Love

My Love

1978 • 6 min • United States of America
Michel reads a book about love, with pictures of naked ladies flashing by and a song by Laurie Anderson playing in the background.
The Chinese Typewriter

The Chinese Typewriter

1978 • 27 min • United States of America
The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that defies the strict rubric of avant-garde. Barnett seems less interested in challenging traditional form than in exploding his own occidental vision. -- Gregory Solman
Se puede filmar lo imaginario

Se puede filmar lo imaginario

1978 • 3 min • Spain
Breaking Point – The Sus Law Controversy

Breaking Point – The Sus Law Controversy

1978 • 38 min • United Kingdom
The use of an old Victorian law of ‘being a suspicious person’ commonly known as ‘sus’ was used against young black peoplein the mid 70’s in the UK. Interviews include Rudy Narrayan, Stuart Hall and Paul Boeteng. Breaking Point is the first documentary directed by a black director for mainstream British Television.
Alcatraz Breakout

Alcatraz Breakout

1978 • 58 min • United States of America
America's most feared prison. The nation's worst gangsters, such men as Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and Alvin Karpis have been broken there, and no man has ever escaped from "The Rock." Alcatraz and its impregnable walls, escape-proof, until inmate 1313-0 proved it wasn't!
Spying

Spying

1978 • 35 min
Spying is equal parts diary film, structural film and conceptual film. The filmmaker “spies” on neighbors, passersby and day workers—whomever is visible from the vantage point of his camera as he gazes across the San Francisco cityscape. The film is a subjective portrait of the neighborhood: the routines of the inhabitants, their unconscious gestures of domesticity, an intimate look into the private moments of strangers as they are caught unawares by the voyeurism of Joe’s camera.
Kate Bush - Efteling Special

Kate Bush - Efteling Special

1978 • 20 min • Netherlands
On 12 May 1978, Kate made her debut on Dutch television in a program that has gotten to be known as “De Efteling Special”. The amusement park De Efteling served as a backdrop for six songs of The Kick Inside: Moving, Wuthering Heights, Them Heavy People, Strange Phenomena, The Man With The Child In His Eyes, and The Kick Inside. On 10 May 1978, the Efteling was ready to open the Haunted Castle, the most expensive attraction it had ever constructed (designed by Ton van der Ven), and they wanted to promote it. In April a documentary featuring the Haunted Castle was made by filmmaker Rien van Wijk, who was eager to shoot in the latest attraction before it officially opened. Kate, who just had a big hit with Wuthering Heights, was approached for a television special that would promote both Efteling and her songs. This is the original broadcast of May 12, 1978. The original 16m film is lost; this is a copy of the uMatic version that is the only version left.
Peter Klimov Street

Peter Klimov Street

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union
One day, while extinguishing a fire, a friend and colleague die in front of one of them. The unfortunate man shouts in despair that he will quit the service. But time passes, and the hero rushes back to the next challenge...
Grandpa Ivan from the Village of Richky

Grandpa Ivan from the Village of Richky

1978 • 11 min • Soviet Union
The main character of the film is grandpa Ivan, a trembita player from Ivano-Frankivsk region. Through his story, Oleksandr Koval returns to his favorite method - looking at the Ukrainian village via intimate stories of his inhabitants.
If the Stars Are Falling

If the Stars Are Falling

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union
The Hedgehog and the Bear decide to wipe the dust off the stars so their brightness won't fade out.
Duplicity I

Duplicity I

1978 • 23 min • United States of America
A friend of many years' acquaintance showed me the duplicity of myself. And, midst guilt and anxiety, I came to see that duplicity often shows itself forth in semblance of sincerity. Then a dream informed me that SINCERITY IV, which I had just completed, was such a semblance. The dream ended with the word "Duplicity" scratched white across the closed eyelids (as the title "The Weir-Falcon Saga" had been given to me). I saw that the film in question demonstrated a duplicity of relationship between the Brakhages and animals (Totemism) and environs (especially trees), visiting friends (Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Donald Sutherland, Angelo DiBenedetto and Jerome Hill among them) and people-at-large. I saw that the film shifted its compositions equally along a line of dark shapes as well as light, and that it did not progress (as did earlier Sincerities) but was rather a correlative of SINCERITY I. Accordingly I changed the title to "Duplicity."
A Picture of Sarah Schumann

A Picture of Sarah Schumann

1978 • 30 min • Germany
This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. Sarah Schumann lives in Berlin and is a pioneer of the feminist scene. 1977 together with several other artists she organized the first large exhibition in which only work by women was shown. Sarah Schumann paints figuratively, that is to say she has developed a technique using layers of collage and painting worked on top of and into one another. Regarding a picture becomes an adventure. (harunfarocki.de)
King of the Movies

King of the Movies

1978 • 41 min
An interview-based documentary broadcast by the BBC in May 1978, made to coincide with a season dedicated to King at London’s National Film Theatre (now BFI Southbank). The 90-year-old master was in attendance at the tribute event and was interviewed on camera. Film clips aside, King of the Movies relies almost entirely on the brilliance of King’s storytelling, which entertains, illuminates and charms. Elegantly dressed in his typical late-period style of bowtie and horn-rimmed glasses, resembling a professor of American history, King reminisces on half a century in “the strangest business in the world”.
The Last Leaf

The Last Leaf

1978 • 8 min • Soviet Union
Retelled and based on the short story by the American novelist O. Henry.
Corvo Island

Corvo Island

1978 • 34 min • Portugal
Corvo Island is the smallest island in the Archipelago of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean. Its area is 17 square km and its population 390. These images and sounds were recorded there in 1977 between the 16th and the 29th of August. To its inhabitants we would like to express our thanks in the making of this film.
Gilette o Juliette

Gilette o Juliette

1978 • 18 min
The film aims to show the fall of revolutionary ideals and broken ideologies.