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Hello Mother, Goodbye!

Hello Mother, Goodbye!

1974 • 30 min • United States of America
A successful engineer tires of his high-tension job and quits to start his own mail-order company, much to his mother's consternation.
Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West

Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West

1974 • 60 min • United States of America
Journey to California's picturesque Santa Inez Valley as a wild Brahma bull threatens the area's prized cattle herds. The ranchers' best hopes for corralling the 1800-pound horned hooligan are three talented Australian "cow cutter" shepherd dogs -- Stub, Queen and Shorty. Stub keeps a few tricks "up his sleeve" for rodeos, roundups and a daring river rescue.
In Praise of Hands

In Praise of Hands

1974 • 27 min • Canada
This short documentary pays tribute to the craftsmen everywhere whose work adds color and richness to life. Filmed in the Canadian Arctic, Finland, India, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, and Poland, it shows the special skills of artisans working at their crafts - stone sculpture, pottery, ceramics, weaving, dyeing, puppet making, embroidery. Each indigenous skill is a reflection of the culture of the country.
I like America and America likes Me

I like America and America likes Me

1974 • 40 min
In May 1974 Joseph Beuys flew to New York and was taken by ambulance to the site of the performance, a room in the René Block Gallery at 409 West Broadway. Beuys lay on the ambulance stretcher swathed in felt. He shared this room with a coyote, for eight hours over three days.
Manifesto for Freedom

Manifesto for Freedom

1974 • 10 min • Yugoslavia
6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price.
The City That Forgot About Christmas

The City That Forgot About Christmas

1974 • 24 min • United States of America
A young boy's grandfather tells him the story of a city that forgot about Christmas until a carpenter named Matthew comes to town and teaches the children about Christmas, much to the chagrin of the Mayor and his cronies.
Betting

Betting

1974 • 27 min • Soviet Union
Three road workers set at a rest stop waiting for paint to apply road markings.
An Invitation to the Hunt

An Invitation to the Hunt

1974 • 53 min
Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.
Split

Split

1974 • 54 min • United Kingdom
When his father runs off and his mother hooks up with a mustachioed new beau, eleven-year-old Mark becomes convinced that an uninvited talkative space alien, going by the name "Split," has taken up telepathic residence in his mind, and is leading him to question the norms of planet Earth. Only one teacher is willing to entertain the possibility that Mark just might be telling the truth.
Love Games

Love Games

1974 • 60 min
If you find yourself screwing a strange piece of ass who’s waaaaay out of your league and her husband happens to walk in on you and she shoots him dead — whatever you do, don’t cough up 25 G’s for her to hush it up because, my friend, you’re being scammed. It’s just the old badger game. And if you do give her money and her name is Sharon Mills (CLAUDINE BENET, an angular blonde with hefty hooters and a divine ass) then you must be Ed Garner, victim of these lewd and larcenous Love Games... Suspecting a scam, Ed — a married, middle-aged man — seeks help from private detective Rick "The Dick" Taylor,a hard-drinking, wise-cracking, ex-actor who believes there’s "nothing like getting laid in the line of duty." Taylor’s dum-as-they-cum secretary, Lucy Brown (SHARON KELLY), a.k.a. "Juicy Lucy, the girl with secretarial secretions," is only too happy to fill her mouth with Rick’s private dick. As Rick says, "A woman should be obscene and not heard."
Sea Road to Britain

Sea Road to Britain

1974 • 21 min • United Kingdom
Intended for European audiences to encourage them to drive to Britain for their holidays. Shows the travel facilities offered by Sealink, and suggests some of Britain's tourist attractions.
Regard de ma fenêtre

Regard de ma fenêtre

1974 • 45 min • France
A mind-blowing film which borders on the structural but which manages to avoid being so. A study of colour, stasis, and different modes of multiple-exposure. The film slides from a doctored reality towards fantasy. A large part of the film takes place in one single image that continually changes aspect: the buildings on the square, Place d'Italie, seen from my window from when I used to live in that district in Paris on the eighth floor of a kind of council housing block.
Nudes: A Sketchbook

Nudes: A Sketchbook

1974 • 30 min
A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.
Roma-Brescia-Cannes

Roma-Brescia-Cannes

1974 • 26 min
Roma-Brescia-Cannes, made in 1974, could be called a lyrical home movie. P. Adams Sitney defines the lyrical film as one that “postulates the film-maker behind the camera as the first-person protagonist of the film. The images of the film are what he sees filmed in such a way that we never forget his presence and we know how he is reacting to his vision”. —Senses of Cinema
The Sun Is God

The Sun Is God

1974 • 60 min • United Kingdom
A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.
I'm Not One Of 'Em

I'm Not One Of 'Em

1974 • 5 min
A women interviews a roller derby skater.
The Lord of the Universe

The Lord of the Universe

1974 • 58 min • United States of America
He was the 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji and, as the Millennium approached, he promised to levitate the Huston Astrodome. It was the early Seventies and anything was possible so thousands flocked to his gathering. Follow him from his mansion in New York to the limousines in Houston, listen to his followers and watch the spectacle unfold just as TVTV did in this Alfred I. du Pont award wining documentary.
The Goose That Laid a Golden Egg

The Goose That Laid a Golden Egg

1974 • 6 min • United States of America
Dogfather reads about a goose that laid a golden egg, and kidnaps him to make him lay another one. Trouble is, he didn't actually lay the egg (it was an another goose that decided to keep his mouth shut since he knew the fate of the goose in the story "The Goose that Laid a Golden Egg").
Is It Something I Said?

Is It Something I Said?

1974 • 31 min
A businessman having a nervous breakdown checks in for one last night at a shabby hotel where he composes a suicide note. The hotel owner intervenes and the two men debate and argue the matter.
A Girl and the Pigeons

A Girl and the Pigeons

1974 • 45 min • Poland
Edek, a teenager on the cusp of adulthood finds his first crush in Basia. His father, guilt stricken after the war took his wife and two daughters believes that his son falling in love will take his son away from him and desperately tries to put an end to his budding relationship.
Ruskin

Ruskin

1974 • 45 min • Austria, Italy, United Kingdom
Beavers traces John Ruskin’s legacy from London to the Alps and especially Venice, where the camera lingers on stone and water in dialogue with Ruskin’s writings. Turning pages and images of Unto This Last evoke the critic’s enduring perceptions and political vision, preserved through acts of reading.
Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now

Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now

1974 • 60 min • United States of America
Shirley MacLaine sings and dances in a one woman show featuring special guest Carol Burnett.
El cargador

El cargador

1974 • 8 min • Peru
Dramatic testimony of Gregorio Condori Mamani, who works as a porter in Cusco, Peru. Despite the huge effort they make everyday for a few coins, porters fall and find death in the streets.
Boran Herdsmen

Boran Herdsmen

1974 • 17 min
This film demonstrates the time-honored solutions to the problems associated with the Boran's dependence on cattle for living. Direct government intervention and the indirect impact of modernization are forcing the old patterns to change. The film depicts herding practices, movement patterns, watering strategies, and the lifestyle of the herdsmen. The film has special currency for issues in rural development and agricultural, environmental, and human adaption.