All Films

Murrain

1975 • 55 min • United Kingdom

When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is caused by a curse from a woman they believe to be a witch.

Leading Light

1975 • 11 min

John Smith’s Leading Light evolves a sense of screen depth and surface through the simple agency of light. The film is shot in a room over a period of a day and records the changes in light through the single window. The image is controlled through manipulation of aperture, of shutter release, of lens, but the effect is more casual than determined and the spectator is aware primarily of the determining nature of following sunlight.

The Hostages

1975 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Children on lonely farm outwit escaped Dartmoor prisoners.

Minestrone

1975 • 12 min

A paranoid filmmaker is tortured by his taste for the titular Italian soup

The Healing

1975 • 30 min

John believes his faith has the power to cure. When he returns to help on his father's farm, he finds it can also kill.

Post Mortem

1975 • 36 min

With her boss unexpectedly absent. Helen, his secretary takes charge.

Westbeth

1975 • 32 min

“Westbeth” was Cunningham’s first video collaboration with Charles Atlas, and the first video project to be made at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio on the eleventh floor of Westbeth.

Great

1975 • 27 min • United Kingdom

An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century - including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship (for 40 years the world's largest steamship). Various styles of animation are used to depict events in his colorful life.

The Damned Thing

1975 • 57 min • Yugoslavia

Doctor who lived at the edge of a swamp was found murdered with his neck slaughtered. Investigator, together with a jury made ​​up of local farmers, comes into the doctor's cabin and tries to discover the cause of his death. The two sources may be of any help: a diary of the doctor, and the testimony of a journalist, the doctor's friend, who was with him at the moment of death. Based on the Ambrose Bierce novel with the same name.

Kattengat 10

1975 • 51 min • Netherlands

Documentairy about the progressive theatre group 'Het Werkteater' at their home base on Kattengat 10 in Amsterdam.

Pink Elephant

1975 • 7 min • United States of America

An elephant follows the Pink Panther home from the zoo.

Black Bart

1975 • 24 min • United States of America

A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).

Roy Lichtenstein

1975 • 53 min • United States of America

In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada, and Purism in referring to signs and objects of contemporary society; Lichtenstein argues for distinctions between himself, Warhol, Oldenburg, and others. In his Long Island studio, Lichtenstein works on an elaborate composition; one of his 4 major paintings on the theme "The Artist's Studio."

Pink DaVinci

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

Leonardo da Vinci (the Little Man) plans to paint the Mona Lisa with a frown, but The Pink Panther insists on a smile, which he paints on the Mona Lisa soon after Da Vinci paints her frown.

Pink Campaign

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther steals a lumberjack's house in revenge for the lumberjack cutting down his treehouse home.

Senior Power

1975 • 19 min

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and North Hollywood Federal Savings and Loan team up to teach senior citizens some useful tips on avoiding purse snatcher, burglars, and armed robbers.

Awkward Customers

1975 • 24 min

Shows John Cleese learning how to deal with "difficult customers" in a professional yet friendly manner and turn them into clients.

Ujamii Uhuru Schule Community Freedom School

1974 • 9 min

A day-in-the-life portrait of an Afrocentric primary learning academy located in South L.A. that focuses on the virtues of the three Rs—Respect, Righteousness, and Revolution.

Pasadena Freeway Stills

1974 • 6 min

Possibly the most lucid, vivid, and awesome demonstration of the building up of still images to create moving ones, Pasadena Freeway Stills simply, gracefully and powerfully shows us the process by which we are fooled by the movies. By doing so, Gary Beydler mines a very rich vein of associations and metaphor, without the slightest ostentation. Constructed as a thrilling arc of realization and, in a quite moving way, disappointment, the film is a beautiful articulation of our emotional entanglement with moving images, while simultaneously creating a form in which the illusion of cinema is brought into incredible relief as the film we're watching gradually catches up to the film Gary is holding up to the camera with his hands, one frame at a time. (Mark Toscano) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Nana, Mom and Me

1974 • 47 min

Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild.

Still Life

1974 • 20 min • Yugoslavia

Early video-installation by Dalibor Martinis, where the artist turns the TV set into a still life and info news into "circulus vitiosus".

Bicycle Thefts

1974 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Film that encourage cyclists to lock there bike.

Alyonka's Chicken

1974 • 8 min • Soviet Union

One day, a girl named Alyonka got a new pet - a chicken. He turned out to be a fidget and immediately went for a walk around the yard, unaware of the dangers that lay in wait for him at every step. Even under the wing of a mother hen you can’t hide from evil if you don’t have reliable, loyal friends.

Backyard Economy 2 (Diane Germain Mowing)

1974 • 7 min

short of a woman mowing a lawn