All Films

Bröllopsfesten

1978 • 56 min • Sweden

A story about Frida, Jonas and their wedding in Småland.

Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner

1978 • 1 min • Canada

Bill Miner was a train robber in British Columbia at the turn of the century. This animated film depicts a disastrous episode in his career.

Sprinkle Me Pink

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

Trying to have a picnic, the Pink Panther tries to escape a cloud that keeps following and raining on him.

Matrosen in Berlin

1978 • 53 min • East Germany, Germany

The documentary tells the story of the Volksmarinedivision, which was formed by revolting sailors stationed in Berlin during the November Revolution. Starting with the November Revolution itself and the founding of the Volksmarinedivision, the main focus is on the political developments surrounding it and its involvement in the battles for the Berlin City Palace at Christmas 1918 and the unrest in January and March 1919, during which the Volksmarinedivision was smashed by the Freikorps and its members persecuted. Due to its proximity to the Spartacus League and the KPD, which had just been founded at the time, the Volksmarinedivision was an important point of reference for GDR historical politics and the patron saint of the GDR's Volksmarine.

The Silent Witness

1978 • 55 min

A documentary based on scientific investigations of the Shroud of Turin. Noted medical examiners, theologians, physicists and historians use modern science to trace the probable history of the cloth.

Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not

1978 • 60 min

Mitzi Gaynor and her guests Gavin MacLeod (The Love Boat), John McCook (The Young and the Restless), and musician Benny Goodman explore trends of the 1970's ranging from Jazz and Disco to Soap Operas and King Tut-mania. Songs include "Satin Doll," "I'm Hip" (with Goodman), "Nice Work if You Can Get it," and "Can't Smile Without You."

A Hitch in Time

1978 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Two children help an eccentric professor test his new time machine.

Wiz on Down the Road

1978 • 13 min • United States of America

A short promotional film on the making of “The Wiz” (1978). Includes a brief history of Oz portrayals in film and behind the scenes interviews.

Rio, Carnaval da Vida

1978 • 13 min • Brazil

A documentary short on the 1978 Carnaval celebration in Rio de Janeiro, covering many aspects of the celebration's popular culture.

Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family

1978 • 3 min • Canada

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for films.

Seer Was Here

1978 • 60 min • Canada

Made for the landmark anthology series, For the Record, Seer Was Here is an example of the bold dramatic programming made at the CBC in the mid-70s, while theatre director John Hirsch was serving as the head of the drama department. Saul Rubinek plays an inmate of a cruel Vancouver prison who brings humour, warmth, a little joy and self-understanding to the fellow prisoners of his cell block. An irreverent satire also featuring Eric Peterson and Martin Short. “Absolutely great, It’s also funny. Very Funny. Very Warm. Very touching… in some ways, a Canadian One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” (Calgary Herald, 1978)

Sluice

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

It is a wooden silver-retrieving sluice, thus light-catch awash with something like "cheek and jowl clippings of Argentine bulls" (as Hollis Frampton reminds us) and many chemical residues of earth. My mind has grown TREE out of the forest of all of it.

The Flintstones: Little Big League

1978 • 46 min • United States of America

Fred manages a little league baseball team that seems absolutely hopeless, except for a player that he blindly refuses to recognize.

Aaa-aaa

1978 • 10 min

The video tape shows the half-length portraits of Abramović and her husband Ulay standing opposite each other, looking at each other and producing a long sound with open mouths.

The Ice House

1978 • 35 min • United Kingdom

After his wife leaves him, Paul seeks solace at a sophisticated health spa run by a pair of sinister siblings. Strangely attracted by the scent of a vine that grows on the old ice house in the spa's grounds, Paul is drawn ever deeper into a horrifying mystery.

Postman's Tale

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on the tale of the same name by Karel Capek about postal gnomes.

Pink Z-Z-Z

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

A constantly meowing alley cat keeps the Pink Panther awake.

Zannin renzoku gokanma

1978 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku from 1977

The Story of Noah

1978 • 42 min • United States of America

A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph.

How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran

1978 • 59 min • United States of America

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed him as a youngster - Robert Flaherty's famous documentary "Man of Aran" released in 1934.

Pcp

1978 • 21 min

Drug educational film about the effects of PCP, also known as phencyclidine or angel dust. It was originally developed as a general anesthetic but became a popular substance in the 1960s and 1970's.

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince

1978 • 55 min • United States of America

Martin Scorsese spends an evening with larger-than-life raconteur Steven Prince—a former drug addict, road manager for Neil Diamond, and actor—as he recounts stories from his colorful life.

20 Times More Likely

1978 • 25 min

Teenagers Sandy and Alan are keen motorcyclists, but while Sandy insists on getting proper training, Alan refuses, even though this makes him twenty times more likely to have an accident.

Rotten

1978 • 30 min

Two extraordinary days in the life of young Beatles-fan Kevin - as he drifts in space between yesterday and today.