All Films

Yrkesmän emellan

1976 • 26 min • Sweden

Short based on Stig 'Slas' Claesson's three Stockholm stories.

Space Ironman Kyodain: The Movie

1976 • 20 min • Japan

Captured by an alien empire from the planet Dada, Dr. Hayama has programmed the personalities of his two kidnapped sons, Joji and Ryuji, into two Cyberroids to combat the Dada Robot Army and care for his youngest son, Kenji.

Circasia

1976 • 11 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

Happenings in a small Irish traveling circus.

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Volcano's Last Big Eruption

1976 • 24 min • Japan

When Magman makes a blunder that finally makes him lose the Black Cross Furher's trust, he begins a rampage against EAGLE with Navarone Fortress, the Gorenger must finally stop them. It features the destruction of Volcano Mask General Magman and his Mobile Fortress Navarone, as well as the Gorenger Machines, and the first appearance of his successor Commander-in-Chief Golden Mask. This is a theatrical version of episode 54 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.

Tanka

1976 • 9 min • United States of America

"Tanka" means, literally, "a thing rolled up". Photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, Tanka is a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Spaghetti Aza

1976 • 1 min • United States of America

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

Grease Monkey

1976 • 30 min

An old motorbike gets a new lease of life from a "grease monkey".

Ada

1976 • 58 min • Canada

Ada was a brilliant and crazy girl before her lobotomy. Afterwards she becomes stupid and easily controlled. A friend on the inside tries to help her recall her former self.

Double Echo

1976 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.

Pinky Doodle

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

During the American Revolution, the Pink Panther is sent to notify townsfolk that the Redcoats are coming. Reissued as Yankee Doodle Pink in 1978.

The Picnic

1976 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A crusty old English General leads his eccentric family on a family picnic trip, and comic chaos ensues.

Beasts: Buddyboy

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale's "Beasts" horror anthology miniseries.

Mystic Pink

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther finds a magician's top hat, complete with a large rabbit.

Moses Coady

1976 • 57 min • Canada

The film is about Moses Coady, who was called many things in his lifetime, but who proved to be the most effective social reformer Canada has known. He went into the villages, organized the people into study groups, helped them set up credit unions and co-operatives, and freed them from the semi-feudal conditions they lived in. Today, people from all over the world come to study his methods at the Coady International Institute in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. (NFB)

Survivor

1976 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Unedited slates from a film called 'Survivor' filmed by Margaret Tait. Footage includes outdoor landscape and garden scenes, a fire burning in field and a man drinking tea in his study. [There appears to be no coherence to the footage] See also Additional Information file at 11/1/455. Paper Archives 4/5/119, 4/11/651, 4/5/92.

Mirror, Mirror

1976 • 30 min

A TV production crew member becomes distracted while polishing a mirror. He turns his attention to the watching TV cameras, which now appear to have personalities of their own.

Children

1976 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.

Play Things

1976 • 60 min

A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.

Illusive Crime

1976 • 46 min

Experimental narrative dealing with female oppression/class control. Controversial at time, especially among feminists.

CID: Four Moments of Life (Dawn, Noon, Dusk, Night)

1976 • 50 min • Hong Kong

Four episodes combined. Dawn: the first cop goes to interrogate the parents of a babygirl who got burnt by an iron. These, eventually admit to be the one responsible but they state it was an accident. Going back on a bus, he reads a newspaper article reporting another case of violence against minors. Noon: the moustached cop cop collects the report of a mother regarding the presence of perverts in her building. A thirteen-year-old girl is spotted with a man in equivocal acts: when she is interrogated she shows no signs of anxiety. Dusk: in a nursing home a guest kills another old man with an axe. He is interrogated by the older cop who, once back home, talks with his wife and daughter while watching sadly TV. Night: the fourth cop is in a disco when he gets the call that a collegue’s wife was the victim of a hit and run. The following morning he goes back to the office.

Beasts: Baby

1976 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

İntikamcı

1976 • 48 min • Turkey

The story of a bully who seeks revenge after getting out of jail

Stones

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).

Early Struggles

1976 • 60 min

Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?