All Films

The Purloined Letter

1974 • 55 min

Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.

Ballada o ścinaniu drzewa

1974 • 31 min • Poland

A short story about an three-man crew of lodgers and their task of cutting down a single tree.

Three for the Fancy

1974 • 53 min

Art has a rabbit, Ern a guinea pig and Abe, a mouse. They're off to astound the world of the Fancy with a triple triumph... but what about the Entwhistles!

Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show

1974 • 39 min • United Kingdom

Ella Fitzgerald in performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. This second show confirms yet again all the superlatives which critics have lavished on her in recent performances.

Bahia de Todos os Santos

1974 • 50 min • Brazil

Boran Women

1974 • 18 min

Traditionally confined to the roles of life-givers, nurturers and homemakers, Boran women of Kenya are slowly realizing the importance of education and the difference it can make in their lives. They attach great importance to the traditional role of women in a herding society and perform dawn to dusk tasks with little deviation from customary ways. Remarkable though is the obvious independence they demonstrate in performing tasks which normally would fall under the male domain, like building their own houses. The film is principally observational with occasional segments in which the women speak directly to the camera.

Easy Go

1974 • 50 min

A hot day by the Thames - very hot for some Deptford children. When they and some dockers spot a 'prize' in the river, the race is on between the rival factions to win it.

The Beast of Monsieur Racine

1974 • 9 min • Czechoslovakia, United States of America

A suspicious pear-thieving beast becomes fast friends with a lonely man who proudly presents him to the prestigious Academy of Sciences.

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too

1974 • 25 min • United States of America

Rabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he gets Pooh and Piglet together to come up with an idea to get the bounce out of Tigger. Then, Tigger and little Roo go out for a bounce and get caught in a tree.

The Stars Are Beautiful

1974 • 19 min • United States of America

We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity. A dog joins the hens and the family, while the narrator explains the heavens. We see a bee up close. The narrator suggests metaphors for heavenly bodies. Scenes fade into a black screen or dim purple; close-ups of family life may be blurry. The words about the heavens, such as "The stars are a flock of hummingbirds," contrast with images and sounds of real children.

Kiss [1974] Nothin' To Lose

1974 • 20 min

Kiss live at ABC In Concert TV show 1974 On this day in KISStory -- February 21, 1974, KISS performed Nothin' to Lose, Firehouse and Black Diamond for ABC's In Concert. The performance aired on March 29, becoming KISS' first national television appearance.

Namatjira the Painter

1974 • 18 min • Australia

Traces the life and artistic development of the Aboriginal painter, the late Albert Namatjira. His environment, his introduction to painting, his subsequent success with beautifully original landscapes and his influence on fellow Aborigines are recorded.

Mysterious Planet

1974 • 13 min • Soviet Union

A boy, who every night admired the beauty of the starry sky, noticed through his telescope that ominous-looking spots appeared on one beautiful and rainbow planet. He immediately realized that this was not good, and sent a self-constructed robot to the aid of the inhabitants of the mysterious planet.

The Heron and the Crane

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.

Le ventre, un supermonde

1974 • 19 min • Belgium

A collage film, a dialogue between mother and the unborn child, the film can be seen as a personal self-analysis by René Paquot, who dreamily delivers his conflicts with maternal, medical and religious authority. revolt.

Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

1974 • 26 min

Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for many of the forgotten and mostly working class victims of the notorious drug prescribed to women during pregnancy. Broadcast in 1974, the theme of Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot was to become a Pilger hallmark: injustice.

It's My Hobby

1974 • 10 min • United States of America

A high school student faces a moral dilemma, should he turn in a friend who is dealing pills.

The Light Fantastick

1974 • 58 min

A detailed retrospective of animation and animation techniques at the National Film Board of Canada.

Christo's Valley Curtain

1974 • 26 min • United States of America

Oscar nominated documentary about the largest man-made curtain in the world as "sculpture".

The Big House Ain't a Home

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

The Dogfather orders Pug and Louie to break Bennie the Boom Boom out of prison. However, they both get captured in the process.

The Emerging Woman

1974 • 40 min • United States of America

A history of the feminist movement in the United States.

The Last Chapter

1974 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A dark tale in which a successful novelist is unbalanced by an assured young female fan.

Duggie Fields

1974 • 10 min

A short film by Derek Jarman.

Strange on the Range

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

One of Hoot's prisoners, Billy the Kidder, escapes and Hoot tries to capture him, but Billy keeps pulling practical jokes on Hoot.