All Films

Dziadowski's Blues Non Camera, ie Legs Forward

1978 • 8 min • Poland

An animated film made without the use of a camera using the technique of drawing and painting directly on a film strip, illustrating a grandfather's ballad, the protagonist of which seeks an explanation for the cruel phenomena of the world around him. Rockets thrown to the ground and bombs exploding, a car falling off a cliff, a driver driving a man on the street or a policeman firing a gun at an opponent - images of this type of catastrophic behavior are intertwined with the recurring image of a man running somewhere.

Yellow Submarine Sandwich

1978 • 3 min

An animated Yellow Submarine spoof produced for The Rutles' 1978 mockumentary All You Need Is Cash and featuring their song "Cheese and Onions". Screened as a standalone short film at the 1979 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and The Museum of Modern Art.

Inscription

1978 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

A documentary film consisting of various clips of Josip Broz Tito.

Superjock

1978 • 11 min • United States of America

The story Jim and Vic, two men who go on separate fitness journeys when they realize they're overweight and at risk for heart disease.

Robin Williams: Off the Wall

1978 • 60 min • United States of America

This was Robin's first HBO special, part of the HBO On Location series. It was taped on location at the Roxy Theatre in Hollywood in 1978. The theatre is full of celebrities, and at one point Robin pulls up John Ritter and makes him do an improvisational bit with him.

Edwin Denby

1978 • 2 min • United States of America

Don Quijote de la Mancha

1978 • 26 min • Spain

Duane Michals (1939-1997)

1978 • 14 min • United States of America

A look at photographer Duane Michal's sequential photo narratives, with voiceover by Michals himself.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Lesson in Cooperation

1978 • 8 min

Cooperating, even in chores, can be a rewarding experience.

A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court

1978 • 25 min • United States of America

Bugs find himself in Camelot and is mistaken for a "dwagon" by Sir Elmer of Fudde.

A Robbery In... Style

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon composed of four parts, parodying "classical" gangster and criminal movies of four countries: robbery American style, French style, Italian style and Russian style. All cartoon characters resemble real movie stars of 50th and 60th.

Leapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!

1978 • 60 min • United States of America

Television played a key role in the legendary Liberace career making him a household word to millions and the medium's first matinee idol. "Leapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!" video taped in 1978 was his first major television special from Las Vegas. "Leapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!" gives us a spoofed view of a typical day in the life of Mr.Showmanship, before he was off to "work" at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel in his mirrored Rolls Royce. There is a view of the magnificent Liberace Las Vegas Villa, from bedroom to piano motif swimming pool. After arriving at the Hilton showroom, guest star Debbie Reynolds, Liberace's favorite movie star and performer, joins him on stage for a salute to the Broadway musical, "Annie," complete with Sandy the Dog.

Waylon Jennings - The Lost Outlaw Performance

1978 • 50 min

On the evening of August 12, 1978, Waylon Jennings and The Waylons performed on the concert stage of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The master recordings of this concert were never released and had been locked in the vaults of RCA Records, long forgotten since 1978. The songs embodied in this performance capture Waylon Jennings and his band at the height of the country music "Outlaw" period, ample evidence of the extraordinary and individualistic writing and singing talents of Waylon Jennings. Now presented for the first time in its entirety, exactly as it was recorded on August 12, 1978.

I Want It All Now!

1978 • 50 min • United States of America

Late 1970s television documentary on the people of Marin County, California, one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. The documentary focuses on the affluent, hedonistic, and often self-indulgent lifestyles of its residents and the effect that it has on families. It provides a snapshot of the the then-popular Human Potential/New Age Movement, as well as the type of lifestyle that would soon be branded 'yuppie' in the 1980s.

Star Waars!

1978 • 2 min • Japan

Japanese stars screaming: War!

The Angry Movie

1978 • 6 min

The subject is anger. This animated film captures the thoughts and actions produced by a young girl's frustration. Coronet Instructional Media.

Electofrenia

1978 • 51 min • Venezuela

Electofrenia (1978), Neri's third political film, requires a critical distance in order to consider the reasons why Venezuelans choose their presidential candidate in the 1978 election. Electofrenia, signifying the chaos of the elections, proposes that many Venezuelans select the candidate who benefits them personally rather than the one who is good for the country at large. Not without irony, the film brings up Venezuela's two decades of peaceful democratic government. If people choose what is good for them, can we call it a democracy?

Jackie McCafferty's Romance

1978 • 30 min

A shy, awkward Scottish lad secretly carries a torch for a local lass.

The Outsider

1978 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Dangard Ace: The Great Space War

1978 • 25 min • Japan

Doppler has set up a trap for the Jasdam, and it is up to the Danguard Ace to save it.

Ten Minutes Older

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces.

The Oriental Nightfish

1978 • 4 min • United Kingdom

The infamous short film that accompanies the Linda McCartney song of the same name.

Greg Kihn Band: Live at Rockpalast

1978 • 59 min • Germany

Greg Kihn Band plays live from AudiMax in Hamburg, Germany, in support of their Next of Kihn LP.

A Little Like Drowning

1978 • 55 min • United Kingdom

The story of two marriages. One, Italian, told by an old lady to her grandson. The other, Italian Scots, the old lady's, told in the present, and via a series of flashbacks.