All Films - Short Movie Database

Everyday Life

1976 • 16 min • Poland

Dialogue-free short detailing the daily tasks of a man and his wife.

A Special: Olivia Newton-John

1976 • 52 min

In her first variety special, Olivia Newton-John performs with guests including Elliott Gould, Lynda Carter, Tom Bosley, Ron Howard and Lee Majors.

Superstição

1976 • 45 min

In June 1976, Eduardo Coutinho and film reporter Mário Ferreira traveled to the northeastern backlands to record the documentary Superstição. The film revealed the customs, legends, and beliefs of the country people.

Nono Nénesse

1976 • 38 min • France

Two adults play babies and wild antics ensue.

The Honeymooners Specials: Second Honeymoon

1976 • 50 min • United States of America

Superdyke Meets Madame X

1976 • 19 min • United States of America

From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone.

New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By

1976 • 49 min

Humphrey Burton introduces two Omnibus USA reports on the arts in New York... that is the arts in the streets, away from the museums and the concert halls. One film is 'Saturday in Soho', an impression of artists, dancers and musicians' work and of the Soho area in general. The second is 'Watching My Name Go By', a showcase a kind of graffiti cult game played by 11 to 17-year-olds. It's illegal and dangerous - and while some New Yorkers think it's a kind of art, others think it's kind of disgusting.

Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

1976 • 15 min • Canada

A continuous zoom traverses the space of a breakfast table, serving as a grand metaphor for indigestion.

Leisure

1976 • 14 min • Australia

The animated history of leisure: that concept most commonly known as free time.

Prosopographia

1976 • 5 min • Austria

Prosopographia, 1976. 16mm film, color, sound; 5 minutes (unfinished).

America on Parade

1976 • 33 min • United States of America

Television special for the American Bicentennial starring Red Skelton, featuring the America on Parade pageant at Disneyland.

Pyramid Lake Is Dying

1976 • 26 min

The second of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in the United States. In Pyramid Lake Is Dying, he reports on the demise in the culture of native Americans and the stealing of their resources. Pyramid Lake, in Nevada, home to the Paiute peoples and once described as “one of the few remaining unspoiled natural wonders in the American West”, is drying up and its fisheries and wildlife disappearing due to changes to the local ecology made by white settlers. In addition to their natural resources, the Paiute peoples' culture and lifestyle are also under threat.

Back to the Land

1976 • 56 min • Canada

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face to face, the promises of colonization in the 1930s and the great disappointment caused by the closing of the land in the 1970s. There are witnesses to the heroic era, including the cultivator Hauris Lalancette, as well as extracts from films by Father Maurice Proulx (1934-1940).

Universe

1976 • 27 min • United States of America

Oscar nominated documentary short from 1976

Coluche : C'est pour rire

1976 • 50 min • France

Funny, unifier, subversive, Coluche was much more than a comedian. This show recorded at the Elysée Montmartre in 1976 brings together the greatest sketches of the comedian with a big heart: the cop, the poem, the cancer or the hitchhiker will make you laugh! A show that has remained in the annals thanks to the famous scene where Coluche tried to play "Le temps des cerises" on the violin... with boxing gloves!

1-100

1976 • 4 min

A short film by Peter Greenaway.

Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976

1976 • 54 min

Live performance originally intended to be a TV special

Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

1976 • 18 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."

Crossroads

1976 • 36 min • United States of America

The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown from 27 different angles, and accompanied by avant-garde Western classical music composed for electric organ by Terry Riley. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Film Archive in 1995.