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Canada Vignettes: Land Bridge

Canada Vignettes: Land Bridge

1978 • 1 min • Canada
This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.
Canada Vignettes: News Canada

Canada Vignettes: News Canada

1978 • 3 min • Canada
Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.
Sex Pistols - Live at the Longhorn

Sex Pistols - Live at the Longhorn

1978 • 45 min
The Sex Pistols captured live onstage at the very end of their fame (they split days after this show). Sid Vicious had by now replaced bassist Glenn Matlock, but internal divisions in the band would come to a head during this winter tour of the US. Numbers performed include 'Pretty Vacant', 'Anarchy in the UK' and 'No Fun'. Live at the Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas, January 10, 1978.
The Single Parent Family: Images in Black

The Single Parent Family: Images in Black

1978 • 21 min • United States of America
Interviews with single black parents.
Rosaura

Rosaura

1978 • 6 min • East Germany
This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even when individual people become weary and die. This animated short is based on a poem by the Chilean filmmaker and poet Juan Forch. Chilean painter Hernando León created the design.
The Bride and the Curfew

The Bride and the Curfew

1978 • 50 min • Albania
Shpresa goes to the house of fascist collaborators to commit an assassination. After that, dressed as a bride, she becomes an illegal.
The Stranglers - Live '78, SF

The Stranglers - Live '78, SF

1978 • 21 min • United States of America
The Stranglers playing live in San Francisco 1978.
It Is Not My Music

It Is Not My Music

1978 • 58 min • Sweden
Moki and Don Cherry met in the mid-1960s and soon began collaborating closely. They made happenings, music, art, posters, and record sleeves; they performed together, organized workshops, and toured. The film merges the different worlds they lived in – countryside and city life, and the various disciplines that were interwoven in their artistic practices.
Uncle Ben

Uncle Ben

1978 • 27 min • United States of America
Nancy is about to receive her college degree and she has a special request for Dr. McFarland about the commencement proceedings, where parents are always given special honor. She starts to reminisce about what has led to her successful graduation, and that of her two brothers Jim and Tommy before her, despite having lost both parents long ago. After being widowed when Nancy is only two years old, her mother Laura works hard night and day to support her young family. Their only relative is Laura's brother, and Uncle Ben is a favorite of the children with his story-telling ability and easy charm. However, his own life is dominated by alcoholism, and he finds it difficult to hold a job and be a responsible member of the community. When Laura suddenly passes away, the children beg Uncle Ben to take care of them. He wishes to do so, and fights to gain custody of his young niece and nephews, but his addiction is standing in the way of his fulfilling the role of a parent.
Alô Tetéia

Alô Tetéia

1978 • 10 min
In a humorous way, the film narrates the adventures - or misadventures - of a typical girl from the south of Rio de Janeiro who decides to go to the beach, but her car won't start. Having decided, she goes on the bus and gets into a thousand messes.
Towards the Salt Cellar

Towards the Salt Cellar

1978 • 6 min • Hungary
The Hungarian family make their best to entertain the German exchange-student with traditional Hungarian dishes. The rather insignificant head of the family tries to reach for the salt cellar but can't do it, while his family keeps on chatting and eating without noticing that someone has gone missing from the table.
...And Plays Tricks

...And Plays Tricks

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union
A tiny green bear (the Trickster) tries his best to impress a group of animals with his annoying tricks.
Chari Gets Married

Chari Gets Married

1978 • 16 min • Spain
A filmed gipsy wedding.
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

1978 • 27 min
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor tells the inspiring true story of history's first successful human-powered flight. Renowned inventor Dr. Paul MacCready and his team were filmed creating the world-famous pedal-powered airplane as it happened. Producing this film, which documents the development of a man's dream into a scientific and historic achievement was, in itself, an extraordinary effort. There was an immense risk involved in making a commitment to film a scientist's effort at achieving something which had never done before successfully. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
Spain: The Land and the Legend

Spain: The Land and the Legend

1978 • 26 min • United States of America
This film conveys a sense of the forces that have shaped Spain over the centuries, including Roman, Islamic, and Catholic influences, and gives James Michener's analysis of the history, art, folklore, and architecture of the country.
Canada Vignettes: Port Royal

Canada Vignettes: Port Royal

1978 • 1 min • Canada
This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an island in the Bay of Fundy. Despite overwhelming hardships the survivors, joined by other new colonists, eventually established Port Royal, the foundation of Acadia and the Acadian people.
When Do the Storks Arrive

When Do the Storks Arrive

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union
The owner left a scarecrow in the field. Autumn came, the birds moved south, and the scarecrow got tired of hanging idly on a pole. He asked the donkey to help him get down. At this time, a flock of storks was getting ready for the road. It became clear that one stork could not fly, it was wounded by hunters. The scarecrow volunteered to take care of the sick stork all winter…
Visions of a City

Visions of a City

1978 • 6 min • United States of America
Sepia toning lends a romantic (even wistful) quality to Larry Jordan's film Visions of a City, which he shot in San Francisco in 1957 and edited in 1978. The pace is un-irritating, in contrast to the San Francisco of today; but unlike the equal weight Helen Levill gives to all her subjects, there is an internal evolutionary development in the Jordan film that ultimately delivers a story. Until the introduction of the human protagonist, poet Michael McClure, we are treated to an extravagant display of visual delights.
Lautaro

Lautaro

1978 • 19 min • East Germany
The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade their country, the indigenous people think that they are aliens. The Spaniards capture and enslave many of the Mapuche tribe. Lautaro, a young captured native, realizes that these aliens are human beings without any divine power. He learns to use their weapons and organizes a resistance movement against the intruders.
Captain of Koppeniki

Captain of Koppeniki

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union
628-e8

628-e8

1978 • 30 min • United Kingdom
In 1906 French painter Bonnard illustrated a romantic, comical journal written by his friend Mirbeau. It's the story of one of the earliest motor car trips through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous

Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous

1978 • 51 min
Thin Lizzy in concert during their "Live and Dangerous" tour of 1976 in London.
The Contraption

The Contraption

1978 • 7 min • United Kingdom
A man toils at building an elaborate contraption. But to what end?
Legends of Peruvian Indians

Legends of Peruvian Indians

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union
The film is based myths of the ancient Peruvians, recreated Soviet ethnographers Yuri Beryozkin on drawings Indians Mochica. The action takes place 1,500 years ago. Legend tells of two brothers, demigods, brought the sacred frog. Growing up, the brothers went to the human world, giving them a lot of happiness and a refuge from the evil monsters. But one of the monsters Rikuay survived the battle with his brothers. He deceived his younger brother, went to his centipede, which led him to ally Rica - a witch, who asked his younger brother to give people a weapon that start killing people. Only the intervention of the gods, and his older brother saved people from total destruction