All Films

Snoopy's Musical on Ice

1978 • 48 min • United States of America

Live-action showcase of ice skating performances led by Snoopy.

Building Sites Bite

1978 • 28 min • United Kingdom

This film tells the story of Ronald, an intelligent boy who wants to become an architect or surveyor. His cousins Paul and Jane cannot believe that Ronald has any awareness of building sites. In Paul's imagination, he and his sister set Ronald in a number of typical sites, to see if he can survive the hazards that kill and maim many children each year. Ronald eventually learns the hard way that he did not know as much about building sites as he thought.

Working Women

1978 • 6 min • Poland

Stylized with dramatic interiors and a distorted frame rate, this early documentary miniature from Szulkin depicts six sequences of solitary, repetitious labor.

Witch's Night Out

1978 • 28 min • Canada

A witch, disgruntled by the fact that no one takes Halloween seriously anymore, decides to stir things up and disrupt the social gathering in her old house as well as turn a couple of kids who love monsters into actual monsters.

A Special Valentine with the Family Circus

1978 • 25 min • United States of America

The Family Circus celebrates Valentine's with arts, crafts, and love.

Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism

1978 • 58 min

Centered around the emergence of Constructivism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada, Beyond Cubism takes a closer look at the artists who ignited the new movements and the alterations of artistic culture brought forth by World War II. Creating out of their philosophy and ideology, artists such as Vladimir Tatlin, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore pushed sculpture to new limits of abstraction and possibility, feverently building on their predecessors.

An Unforgettable Day

1978 • 27 min • Soviet Union

Short film. The lyric kinonovella about two boys - restless and mischievous, their short acquaintance with the girl who came to the village from the city, about the friendship between them that originated ...

Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook

1978 • 1 min • Canada

Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts how he began the sea otter trade which led to the development of the Pacific north west.

Fame

1978 • 53 min • United States of America

A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film. The results are unexpected.

The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa

1978 • 10 min • Canada, United States of America

An animated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s acclaimed novella, “The Metamorphosis,” made from carving images into sand with glass.

Penine Man

1978 • 30 min

In Stalybridge, middle-aged scoutmaster Kenneth "Kim" McGrath begins to crack up under the strain of his personal and domestic frustrations.

Forever and Always

1978 • 18 min • United States of America

A marriage on the rocks that hurts the heart almost as much as the colors hurt the eye. “[A] full color portrait of a break-up that comes closer than any other to being an operetta.” –B. Ruby Rich

Hello Monkey

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Boa is in great mood and wants to share it with Monkey. So he sends his best regard to her through Elephant.

Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable

1978 • 4 min • Canada

This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to a far away kingdom and a disreputable man's attempt to exploit that.

Out of Our Fathers' House

1978 • 59 min • United States of America

Drawn from the diaries and letters of noted feminists, such as women's suffrage founder Elizabeth Cady Stanton and labor organizer "Mother" Mary Jones, this unique production paints a compelling portrait of the women's liberation movement.

The Cramps: Live at Napa State Mental Hospital

1978 • 20 min • United States of America

The concert was recorded with a black-and-white video camera and a single microphone on June 13, 1978.

Angel in the House

1978 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse and her essay Professions for Women, both read by feminist filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey.

Others

1978 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary where the protagonist takes a melancholic walk in the city before coming back home to his family.

Below the Lion Rock: The Boy from Vietnam

1978 • 49 min • Hong Kong

Following Ah Man’s arrival in Hong Kong as a stowaway, the Vietnamese teenager seeks out his cousin for help to earn a living. Thereafter he becomes an apprentice with a compatriot Vietnamese painter. One day, Ah Man accidentally discovers his cousin’s disgraceful secret, while the painter faces deportation for his own illegal residency status. The Boy from Vietnam marked the debut of Ann Hui’s Vietnam Trilogy.

The World Beyond

1978 • 58 min • United States of America

A golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island.

It Was An Axe-ident

1978 • 2 min • United States of America

From 1978 a written and directed short film by Daniel Johnston starring his father, Bill Johnston.

Monsieur René Magritte

1978 • 50 min • France, Germany

Documentary about the Belgian surrealist artist who died in 1967.

The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon

1978 • 30 min

Rupert Skern's Saturday morning peace is shattered by the arrival of workmen in his garden

Woman Mandala

1978 • 54 min • Japan

A husband with a mistress learns that his wife, whom he had envied, is pregnant and begins to want to kill her.