All Films

Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman

1974 • 58 min • United States of America

1974 documentary about symphony conductor Antonia Brico, including her struggle against gender bias in her profession.

The Concert

1974 • 12 min • United Kingdom

In this Oscar nominated short film punctuated by cartoonlike sight gags, a self styled soloist performs a concert outside The Royal Albert Hall in London by "playing" the black & white stripes of a crosswalk which resembles a piano keyboard; he wins over passersby, including a constable and a group of more traditional musicians.

Linda's Film on Menstruation

1974 • 18 min • United States of America

This is an educational short released by the Los Angeles Public Library explaining what to expect when you get your first period.

A Few Practical Ways To Prolong One’s Life

1974 • 13 min • Poland

The surrealistic live-actor/animated collage story about the inevitability of growing old and the possible ways of delaying this process, for example by head magnetizing, home hibernation, giving electric shocks to the brain areas supporting the growth of the upper teeth.

Living at Thamesmead

1974 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Documentary-style account of a young couple who live in Thamesmead. The film shows the architecture and landscape of Thamesmead as well as the day to day lives of the residents.

Chroma

1974 • 8 min

Shot at New York University, Horn’s wordless, mindblowing student film CHROMA might be the missing link between the avant-garde cinema of the 1970s and Horn’s later dance films to follow. The silhouettes of three dancers (red, green and blue) are played off one another while the grids and ladders of the modern metropolis – one feature that’s recognizable across almost every film made by Horn – crossfade and overtake the screen. CHROMA received a special award of merit from the Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences; on his CV, Horn described the film like this: “real images are manipulated through special effects and printing to create an artificial dreamscape.”

Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany

1974 • 28 min • Poland

Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come soon.

Mother Died, Stop

1974 • 52 min • Yugoslavia

An elderly woman pays visit to her mother who resides in nursing home. Few days later she receives a telegram that the mother died, but it turns out that the address it was sent to was wrong. However the guilt of neglect starts to torment the mourning daughter nonetheless.

Match of the Day

1974 • 30 min

Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it

Lost Night

1974 • 41 min • Poland

A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in the evening on a country road, so he and his chauffeur, Konstanty, have to look for accommodation in a nearby manor house. Its owner is a young man, Jan, who has been managing the severely run-down estate himself since his mother's death.

The Chocolate Princess

1974 • 3 min

Sweet little chocolate-bar shaped Chocolate Princess lives a lonely life in Sugarland. Then one day she meets Sour Ball, a happy, round little boy from Sourland. Narrated by Bill Cosby, the story of their difficulty with the King's prejudice toward Sour Ball provides a doubly delicious lesson on not judging a person by his or her exterior.

Starmaker

1974 • 37 min

In Granada TV’s 1974’s Starmaker, head Kink Ray Davies proved once again that he’s not like everybody else, producing a rock opera for television that tells the story of an insufferable, vain, egotistical rock star (played by Davies, naturally) who switches places with an “ordinary person” named Norman, working in Norman’s crappy job and living Norman’s crappy life to find inspiration for his next album. (Well, it’s a little more complicated than that…) Davies’ play reveled in breaking the fourth wall: cameras and microphones are visible throughout and the play’s author/star himself even ends up a member of the audience. Starmaker was a dry run for the themes of the Kinks’ 1975 album, The Kinks Present a Soap Opera.

Ich war in Honolulu – wetten?

1974 • 40 min • East Germany

Uwe is a chemistry student and works as an excavator driver on various construction sites at weekends. One weekend, he meets the nursery nurse Gabi. As it turns out later, they owe their encounter to the daughter of the construction site brigadier Trunzer. But it doesn't stop at this one encounter and the resulting flirtation, as the two fall in love within a very short time. On another weekend, Uwe accompanies Gabi to visit her family. When construction site brigadier Trunzer returns from vacation a few days later, he first asks Uwe where he has been during his absence, to which Uwe replies: "I was in Honolulu - bet?".

Breath

1974 • 13 min

Shot in a remote part of Dartmoor, Breath is structured around a precise score. Three people are each given a camera loaded with 100ft of Kodachrome film and instructed to walk away from a tape recorder that has been placed within the landscape. The camera operators’ breath and whistling become a measure for the duration of the shots as they film their journey.

One, Two, Three...

1974 • 5 min • Egypt, France

One, Two, Three is a collection of three vignettes, entitled “The Shower,” “The Bird” and “The Machine.” They each place a doughy, confused man into a frustrating situation.

Really, Raquel

1974 • 60 min

TV special, adapted from Raquel Welch's live 1973 dinner club production, featuring Welch and puppets from the World of Sid & Marty Krofft.

The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'

1974 • 45 min • Italy

A tongue-in-cheek documentary that goes "behind the scenes" during the production of Federico Fellini's film "Amarcord" (1973).

The Lonely Man's Lover

1974 • 58 min

Poet Daniel Tasker moves to a small Yorkshire village, where he perturbs and disturbs the locals, except for Lizzie, who has feelings awakened in her that change her life.

Sounds Like Les Dawson

1974 • 60 min

Les Dawson invites some familiar friends to join him in this one off special in which he performs sketches and musical numbers. Watch out for a rare clip of Les actually playing the piano properly.

Cockaboody

1974 • 8 min • United States of America

John and Faith Hubley combined animation with the voices of their preschool daughters Georgia and Emily to make this award-winning short (New York Animation Festival), similar in concept to their earlier work "Moonbird".

Félálom

1974 • 35 min • Hungary

In András Jeles' short film, elements of the present are mixed with the world of Honoré de Balzac's novel Lost Illusions.

Stinky-Butt

1974 • 4 min • United States of America

The film that caused Sheri Millbradt to lose 40 pounds.

Profile: Dr. Ricardo Alegria

1974 • 16 min

"This film features the people of Puerto Rico and the revival of the ancient culture of that island. The story is told through the eyes and work of Dr. Ricardo Alegria — head of Puerto Rico's Office of Cultural Affairs and the first executive director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. The film was produced by Paul R. Gurian, executive produced by David Boyer, and directed by Jack Sholder" (US National Archives).

Looking for the 5-Hour

1974 • 22 min • Albania

A lazy man wants to become a sportsman in order to have a normal 5-hour per day job. Many comical situations arise.