All Films

The Dancing Princesses

1978 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A made-for-TV retelling of the story "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," directed by Ben Rea, featuring Jim Dale as the Soldier, Freddie Jones as the destitute King, and Gloria Grahame as the Witch. Significant changes were made to the story, including reducing the number of princesses to six, and the soldier ultimately declining to marry any of the princesses due to their deceitful nature.

Ringo

1978 • 49 min • United States of America

Ringo Starr, bored and disillusioned with fame, meets a doppelgänger in Hollywood named Ognir Rrats who sells maps to the stars' homes and lives with an abusive, thieving father. Longing for a more average lifestyle, Ringo invites Ognir into the studio and suggests the two trade places for a few hours.

A State of Siege

1978 • 50 min • New Zealand

Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility as an art teacher in a South Island private girls' school and decides to live out her dream – painting alone in the remote North. One terrifying night, beset by a prowler, but confronting only her own image at every step, she relives her past.

Burial Path

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

The film begins with the image of a dead bird. The mind moves to forget, as well as to remember: this film graphs the process of forgetfulness against all oddities of remembered bird-shape.

The Pink of Bagdad

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

An Indian fakir's magic rope falls in love with the Pink Panther's tail. (Reissue of "The Pink of Arabee" 1976).

Petronella

1978 • 12 min • United States of America

An animated fairytale about a princess, who because she is an only child, must perform the traditionally princely duty pf rescuing a princess. Instead she rescues a prince.

The Blind Swordsman

1978 • 58 min • United States of America

A documentary about the character created for a series of Japanese films starring Shintaro Katsu. There are behind-the-scenes interviews on the set of the subsequent television series featuring the character.

Pink Bananas

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther is living his best life in the jungle until he irritates a big gorilla. Only the music from a transistor radio can soothe the beast.

Benji's Very Own Christmas Story

1978 • 25 min • United States of America

While on a publicity tour in Switzerland, Benji, Cindy Smith, and Patsy Garrett convince Kris Kringle that his place on Christmas Eve is delivering presents to all "his" families all over the world.

Canada Vignettes: Trading Post

1978 • 1 min • Canada

An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.

Pat Boone and Family: A Thanksgiving Special

1978 • 60 min

Beloved singer-actor Pat Boone, his daughter Debby and the entire Boone family enjoy the holiday at home with music and fun, including a visit from old friend Bob Hope, comic John Byner and the humorous Hudson Brothers. The Boone girls sing Bless This House.

Journey to the Garden of the Dead

1978 • 60 min • France

Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but since she is not, he wishes that she was dead.

School Sounds

1978 • 30 min

Set in a Japanese university in the late '70s, the film discusses the absurdity of cafeteria prices, the struggle over the old clock tower, and more.

Tarzana

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

A private detective takes on a strange case.

Race for Survival

1978 • 49 min • United States of America

When a game warden crashes in East Africa, his greyhound goes for help, only to find unexpected assistance from an aging lion.

A Child's Voice

1978 • 29 min • Ireland

A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show.

Pink S.W.A.T.

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther attempts to get rid of a fly in his home.

The Rain

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In one of the Russian cities, where local tailors have long sold their fabrics and clothes from it on the market, there were overseas merchants who arrived on an expensive and beautiful boat. Quite quickly, they settled in the shopping aisles and began to attract customers and lure them with their goods.

Canada Vignettes: Faces

1978 • 1 min • Canada

Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.

Women Metalworkers

1978 • 17 min • Brazil

In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful and abusive automotive industry. Documenting striking women metal workers, Olga Futemma and Renato Tapajós’ Trabalhadoras Metalúrgicas is a particularly vigorous work among the films produced during this moment in São Paulo worker history. Scenes filmed during the first Congress of Metallurgical Women of São Bernardo and Diadema in 1978 are intercut with images documenting the appalling working conditions against which the women featured in the congress were striking.

The Lake

1978 • 33 min • United Kingdom

A young couple go for a picnic beside a lake in the grounds of an empty house. Three years before, the owner had murdered all his family, killed his animals and disappeared.

The Forbidden

1978 • 36 min • United Kingdom

An early experimental short film based on Faust.

Amahl and the Night Visitors

1978 • 51 min

One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

1978 • 48 min • United States of America

Leslie Uggams hosts this take on A Christmas Carol, where she and fellow guest stars, Anne Murray, Imogene Coca, and Dick Smothers try to get Oscar to stop being such a Grouch on Christmas.