All Films

Maso and Miso Go Boating

1976 • 55 min • France

The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way.

The Valley

1976 • 20 min • New Zealand

The story is mainly about a cyclops and the misadventures of a boy, that takes place in the valley to which the monster lives.

Paradise. An Imperialist Tragicomedy

1976 • 60 min • Germany

A multinational company owned by Mrs Judit Angst is facing financial difficulties: she decides to hire a group of young anarchists to fake her "kidnapping". After a couple of weeks spent in confinement she will be able to justify the downfall of her company before the people and at the same time to gain the status of the opponent to the destruction and chaos.

The Ear of Wheat

1976 • 6 min • Albania

An ear of wheat is taken by a bird.

Jagosh and Blacky

1976 • 54 min • Yugoslavia

Jagoš is a former immigrant worker, and the plot depicts his trial for hitting an acquaintance with a bottle in a pub. During the trial, Jagoš recounts his time as an immigrant worker in Germany and France and his friendship with an African immigrant.

Almos' a Man

1976 • 39 min • United States of America

Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.

Seis Dias de Ouricuri

1976 • 41 min • Brazil

Early documentary by Eduardo Coutinho dealing with the water shortage in the city of Ouricuri in the seventies.

Fleetwood Mac on The Midnight Special - 2/27/76 - 4/9/76

1976 • 19 min • United States of America

A collection of the band's appearances on the show in 1976, Season 4, Episode 21 and 26. Consists of Over My Head, Rhiannon, Why, and World Turning. These songs also feature on the Tokyo 1977 Vinyl.

Beniamiszek

1976 • 60 min • Poland

Żagota lost his fortune, family and friends. His only hope is a horse which got stolen.

H Is for House

1976 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Ostensibly, a film about a child's pictorial alphabet stuck on the letter H.

Surface Tension

1976 • 13 min

"This experiment determines what happens when a negative is superimposed upon its own positive image. The center of the picture forms the optical soundtrack on both left and right screens so that what you see finds its aural equivalent in sound." - Anthology Film Archives

Packman's Barn

1976 • 60 min

Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains.

Monsieur Pointu

1976 • 12 min • Canada

Monsieur Pointu would like to play his fiddle. But the fiddle has other ideas.

You're Nothing But Tears

1976 • 11 min • Soviet Union

How a small onion helped a cabbage out of trouble.

Scenes with Beans

1976 • 12 min • Hungary

Watching from the stars, an all-seeing creature observes a society of sentient beans — the joys, triumphs, and tragedies of day-to-day life on their planet — until the busy inhabitants finally notice the watcher’s leering gaze.

The Elephants' Graveyard

1976 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Bunny has told his wife he is working as a postman, but in fact is wandering the hills all day, wondering why he doesn't want to work. He meets Jody, an older man who has told his wife he's working in a factory, but is in fact doing the same thing. The two men spend a day of friendship together, but what does the future offer them? And tonight is supposed to be pay night...

Stanley Baxter's Christmas Box

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Sketches include the film noir 'Farewell my Cinders', the BBC Jewish news, The Bruce Fosdyke Show, A Christmas Appeal by Faith Douche, the meaning of Christiman, 'The Last Noël', Jacques Cousteau presents Some Mammals Do 'Ave 'Em, Girl on the Cover followed Harpies Bizarre's America's Loveliest Girls starring Lois Latnick.

Man nennt mich jetzt Mimi...

1976 • 35 min • East Germany, Germany

A young married couple is in love. Both believe that the other has it easier in life. To find out who is right in this matter, they swap clothes: Anna slips into a man's suit and Peter into a chic woman's wardrobe. In this outfit, they both drive towards their vacation destination. Of course - under these circumstances, the young couple are in for exciting and unpredictable adventures, as the locals at the vacation resort show more than just platonic interest in their new guests...

Marine Merchants

1976 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A look at how fish and chips make it to your plate.

Munakata, the woodcarver

1976 • 36 min • Japan

A documentary film looking at the work of Shiko Munakata, a woodblock artist. His prints are based on Buddhist philosophy and are highly original and Oriental in style.

Love in the Hamptons

1976 • 24 min • United States of America

Mickey Rourke stars in his first film role as a young waiter in the Hamptons, who finds love with a cocktail waitress as she struggles to support her child and confront her troubling home life.

Gravity

1976 • 8 min

In this spoof of public-school educational films, young Mary Jane asks the question, "What is gravity?" After asking various (dysfunctional) family members without success, she then asks Dr. Waxman of the Karl LaFong Foundation for Gravitational Research (motto: "heads in the clouds and feet on the ground"), who explains that gravity is caused by a substance named GR12. Unfortunately, the world is running out of GR12. The cartoon character Jiminy Gravity then explains (in song) how we can conserve gravity with such practices as sitting on the floor and carrying helium balloons.

People, People, People

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

Traces life in USA from the first Native Americans to the Bicentennial.

The Goodies Almost Live

1976 • 30 min • United Kingdom

The Goodies bookend the sixth season of their successful television show with a specially taped concert special, featuring live studio performances of songs from The New Goodies LP and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again.