All Films

Procópio no Cinema

1978 • 26 min • Brazil

Grease Day USA

1978 • 48 min

The star-studded premiere party for "Grease," featuring numerous unrelated musical performances.

Moomintroll and the Others

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Far up north in the Blue Valley lives the Moomin family. Moomin and little Sniff set off on a journey to the sea to find a place for a celebration.

The Writer In America : Toni Morrison

1978 • 28 min • United States of America

An interview with a young Toni Morrison. The video also shows Toni Morrison going shopping, at a party, and at work. Her commentary provides an incisive look behind her written words, and at the vision, technique, and lifestyle of this award-winning author. She reads from The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon.

Ghan to Alice

1978 • 27 min • Australia

A father and son, both rodeo riders, travel by train from Marree in South Australia to the Alice Springs Rodeo, in the Northern Territory. They travel on a unique railway - The Ghan - which runs through the heart of Australia. It's an overnight trip through spectacular country, pausing briefly at towns along the way, as the men look forward to their final destination, a bull-riding contest between the best rough-riders in the region.

Canada Vignettes: Holidays

1978 • 1 min • Canada

A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.

At the Ditch

1978 • 16 min • East Germany

My Lai ten years after the massacre. Reconstruction of the crime at the place where it was committed; tracing the trail of squad leader Calley in the USA; description of what happened by people who were believed to be dead.

Irina Kolpakova

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

About the soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the famous ballerina Irina Alexandrovna Kolpakova. The ballerina is shown in completely different situations — she conducts rehearsals, teaches, takes exams at the conservatory, learns English, rehearses numbers from the ballet 'Giselle,' and feels nervous before the start of a performance.

Robinson Kuzya

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Canada Vignettes: The Thirties

1978 • 1 min • Canada

A watercolour evocation of a prairie storm coming after a period of severe drought.

Short Film In Three Parts

1978 • 11 min • Turkey

In three stylistically very different parts, it deals with various forms of escapism in a society that has become blind to the violence that is eroding it from within. Made shortly before the 1980 military coup, Üç Bölümlü Kısa Film was bound to appear to contemporary audiences as a courageous plea for civil disobedience.

The Old Singer

1978 • 11 min • Kuwait

The story revolves around Abu Saleh, who is exposed to many problems because of his love for singing and playing his dilapidated oud and his failure to find an opportunity to sing and his attempts to get out of this crisis

The Goldie Hawn Special

1978 • 60 min • United States of America

Goldie Hawn’s second TV special was in 1978, “The Goldie Hawn Special” and it was a sort of comeback for her, after she had been out of the spotlight for over two years. On the TV special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen idol Shaun Cassidy, television star John Ritter and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her on the show. The special later went on to be nominated for a primetime Emmy Award.

Satiemania

1978 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

The fauna of the megalopolis, the jungle of the supermarket, the bedlam of brothels and bars, the effect of the bars in the fog, the swaying ears of corn, the swaying of men hanging from the gallows, the ripple of water – seen by the eye of the animator…

You're Driving Me Crazy

1978 • 53 min

Having lost his license through driving under the influence of drink, Tom hires Bente, an au pair, to be his chauffeur. He readily succumbs to her charms, resulting in his wife Jacqui hiring her own male au pair, Aron.

School, Girls, and You!

1978 • 14 min • United States of America

It's the 1950s, and strait-laced Everdale University is about to go "co-ed"! In order to prepare its student body for the onslaught of "females" on campus, they present this hard-hitting educational film. Wally Bile is the "wrong-way" role model, according to health professor Dr. Bloom. Dr. Bloom explains the vital "do's and don'ts" on dating women, and the all-important "warning signs" and "danger signals" to look out for when close-encountering the opposite sex.

Hardware Wars

1978 • 13 min • United States of America

A short film parody of the classic science fiction film Star Wars. It premiered in theaters only seven months after Star Wars and consisted of little more than inside jokes and visual puns that heavily depended upon audience familiarity with the original.

Firefly and Dewdrop

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The firefly had a very important thing to do: every evening he hung lights all over the forest and lit stars in the sky so that no one would get lost, and then one day he saw a special light in a drop of dew... That's where the real friendship began.

Afterlife

1978 • 7 min • Canada

This animated short film attempts to answer the eternal questions, What is dying? and How does it feel? Based on recent studies, case histories and some of the ancient myths, the afterlife state is portrayed as an awesome but methodical working-out of all the individual's past experiences. Film without words.

Mountain Lady

1978 • 59 min • United States of America

Country Western star Stuart Hamblen tell the story of Old Tom, his Alaskan hunting and fishing companions, whose pretty granddaughter Heidi joins him for a summer of camping in the great Alaskan wilderness. As they care for a herd of horses, they enjoy a delightful series of adventures - and misadventures. In a refreshingly simple way, viewers begin to understand Old Tom and the sustaining force in his life that comes from year of tempering in "the workshop of the Lord".

Freedom of the Dig

1978 • 30 min

After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the Stone Age fort keeps him away from trouble, but there are other problems apart from the weather

Impressions of Herbert Von Karajan

1978 • 60 min

Reveals the life and current (1978) muses of Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan.

The Winds of the Milky Way

1978 • 54 min • Finland, Hungary, Soviet Union

Sequel to the "The Waterfowl People". The author interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relationships of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansi, Hungarians, Sami, Nganasans, and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on location in northern Finland, Sapmi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, the Setomaa region in Estonia, and on the Estonian islands of Saaremaa and Muhu. Footage was also shot in 1970 in the Nenets Okrug. The second documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum" series.

The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford

1978 • 40 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

TV documentary in which Robert Redford discusses the Wild West and retraces the old escape route to Mexico.