All Films

Romance with a Double Bass

1974 • 40 min • United Kingdom

A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

Flip Wilson... Of Course

1974 • 60 min

Flip Wilson's stand-up special.

Haunted: Poor Girl

1974 • 50 min • United Kingdom

An Edwardian governess finds herself trapped inside a haunted house.

Baby Love

1974 • 58 min

Play about Eileen who steals a baby, and the reactions of those around her, including the priest, police, and authorities and the consequences of what she does.

The Supper

1974 • 54 min • Spain

Five ex-political prisoners meet secretly in a country house one afternoon in 1974 on the same day that Salvador Puig Antich is executed, to talk about their experiences in prison.

Back of Beyond

1974 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest friendship. But they also mean a time to 'put aside childish things.'

According to the Rules

1974 • 60 min

When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. But pursuing the case is likely to have consequences for both the policeman and his family.

The Visit

1974 • 15 min • Poland

A "Polityka" weekly journalist Marta Wesolowska and photo-reporter Erazm Ciolek visit Urszula Flis, who runs a country farm. A young woman living on her own, Flis is an untypical villager in that she is interested in culture, corresponds with writers, etc.

Cue Rolls

1974 • 6 min

Cue Rolls suggests that the particularity of cinema is its interface of rigorous mechanical equipment and fallible human process, which is dramatised by the juxtaposition of the precision mechanics of the visuals and Fisher’s somewhat halting narration.

Naked Yoga

1974 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Three young ladies perform yoga without clothes in the open air of Cyprus. Another does the same in a studio. These visuals are interspersed with images of Eastern art, processed for "psychedelic" effect. The narrator relates the practice of yoga to Buddhist philosophy. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with British Film Institute in 2012.

Cinema

1974 • 15 min • Brazil

At the End of September

1974 • 59 min • Hungary

Young Petőfi Zoltán the son of the great Hungarian poet, Petőfi Sándor, feels as though he were a stranger in the house of his mother and stepfather. Off he goes, finding work in Debrecen, where his theatrical and literary career and love all seem to be on their way.

Giddy Up Woe

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

Hoot Kloot is mad at Confederate because he's so slow, so Hoot trades him with another horse. The new horse is fast, but keeps giving Hoot hard time. Hoot ended up trading the fast horse again and gets Confederate again.

The Amputee

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

A double amputee attempts to write a letter while her nurse gets in the way. (Note: The Amputee was produced in order to test two different black and white video stocks for the American Film Institute. There are therefore two different versions of the film, each using the same script but shot on different stocks and differing in other incidental ways in terms of performance, sound design and duration. This is Version 1.)

Waiting

1974 • 43 min • Iran

A dialogue-free film that follows a boy in southern Iran whose daily chore is bringing an elegant glass bowl to get filled with ice, and then returning home.

They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy"

1974 • 56 min • Canada

The history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colony with the men already there, and ending with the modern career woman.

The Cay

1974 • 60 min • United States of America

When Young Phillip is separated form his mother and found by a black man named Timothy and his cat Stewcat, Phillip becomes blind and they all end up on an island. Will they survive or will they die?

Butterfly

1974 • 12 min • Japan

A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.

Anaïs Nin Observed

1974 • 60 min

In this documentary Anais Nin is shown at work, at home, and talking with and about her influences: D.H. Lawrence, Otto Rank, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Martha Graham, Noguchi, Kenneth Anger, Maya Daren, Edmund Wilson, Lou Andreas-Salome and others.

True Blue and Dreamy

1974 • 13 min • United States of America

A real and favorite dream of mine, preserved on film to be relived over and over.

Yudie

1974 • 19 min • United States of America

Documentary portrait of the filmmaker's aunt, and her memories of life in the Lower East Side in the early 20th century.

Saturday Chile

1974 • 42 min • Sweden

A reflection on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet captured in its economic and social causalities. Originally shot for a TV youth program but canceled before broadcast.

First Love

1974 • 52 min • Poland

After the doctor's refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their decisions, in spite of numerous hardships facing them.

The Flying Sorcerer

1974 • 55 min • United Kingdom