All Films

Faces: Live at Edmonton Sundown

1973 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Rod Stewart and Faces perform at Edmonton Sundown in London, in June 1974. It would be founding member Ronnie Lane's last appearance with the group.

Areia Mar - Mar Areia

1973 • 15 min • Portugal

Sand Sea - Sea Sand

Fortune

1973 • 54 min • Poland

A timid bank clerk is pressured by gangsters, his girlfriend and his fellow employees to help steal the bank's supply of dollars.

Ensino Artístico

1973 • 10 min • Brazil

The documentary discusses the importance of artistic teaching in the elementary school curriculum, showing the role of the arts - be it music, painting, sculpture, theater or cinema - in the training of students.

Less

1973 • 1 min

"Near the end of 1973, Frampton realized that he had not finished a single film over the course of a year. He promptly conceived and executed LESS, a doubly punning work in which a minimalist Frampton generates a twenty-four frame (one-second) loop of the incremental blacking out of a nude image by photographer Les Krims." - Bruce Jenkins

Mark Tobey Abroad

1973 • 28 min • United States of America

Robert Gardner visits the great American painter Mark Tobey in Basel, Switzerland, where he lived for the last years of his life. With remarkable candor and objectivity, Tobey discusses his work and that of fellow artists including Picasso.

The Mangrove Nine

1973 • 36 min • United Kingdom

The Mangrove Nine trial resulted from conflict between the police and the Black community in Notting Hill that had escalated from the end of the 1960s onwards. The Mangrove case began when around 150 Black people protested against long-term police harassment of the popular Mangrove Restaurant in Ladbroke Grove. A documentary film, 'The Mangrove Nine' (directed and produced by Franco Rosso), was made in 1973, and includes interviews with the defendants recorded before the final verdicts. The Mangrove Nine film portrays interviews with the defendants recorded before the final verdicts were delivered at the trial, as well as contemporary comments from Ian Macdonald and others.

Celebration of Life: Trees

1973 • 11 min

The beauty and wonder of our natural environment gives cause for a celebration. The viewer joins a group of youngsters discovering and enjoying everything about trees and forests. It is a reminder of the people-nature activities that can be enjoyed. Suitable for middle and upper primary levels.

The Guns Will Not Be Silenced

1973 • 25 min

Georges Habash, founder of the PLFP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), gives a speech in 1973.

Elephants: Fragments in an Argument

1973 • 25 min

A self-portrait of the filmmaker at twenty-nine, this provocative collage of photographs, street scenes, and interviews with family and friends seeks to prove that "one’s consciousness is the result of one’s relationship to power and not, as many believe, vice-versa.”

Footprints in Stone

1973 • 43 min • United States of America

A key piece of the Paluxy Human Track narrative that swept the country's creation-evolution dialogue in the 1970s and 1980s and cemented the claims that dinosaur and human track ways were preserved in the Paluxy River in the public sphere. Originally release in January 1973, the film was considered lost media by the 1980's but a 16mm cut of the film resurfaced in 2023.

Enfoque - Sete Povos das Missões

1973 • 10 min

The past of a region that grew on the foundations of the faith, through the catechesis of the Jesuits who formed the theocratic kingdom of the Guarani.

Cosmococa

1973 • 15 min

In 1973, exiles from Brazil during the military dictatorship, artist Hélio Oiticica and filmmaker Neville D’Almeida lock themselves in an apartment in Manhattan and fantasize a series of iconic sensory installations called quasi-cinema - experience blocks in Cosmococas. The work features slide projections on the walls of the rooms, showing drawing sessions carried out by the artists, using cocaine for doodling and a pocket knife as a brush.

Thank You

1973 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Magic Lanterns

1973 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale by E. Serova about the Little Mouse, who saved the forest dwellers from fear.

The World of Sid & Marty Krofft at the Hollywood Bowl

1973 • 60 min • United States of America

The special consists of a series of performances and skits based around the shows of Sid and Marty Krofft. Johnny Whitaker hosts the show and performs "Friends," the theme song from Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. Jack Wild appears as Jimmy, who searches high and low for his friend H.R. Pufnstuf (Van Snowden). H.R. Pufnstuf 's resident villain, Wilhelmina W. Witchiepoo (Louise DuArt, substituting for Billie Hayes) and Lidsville 's wacky magician Horatio J. Hoodoo (Paul Gale, substituting for Charles Nelson Reilly) each showcase their unique magic talents. The Brady Bunch Kids perform a medley of songs, though they would not appear in a Sid and Marty Krofft TV production until The Brady Bunch Hour in 1976.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria

1973 • 42 min • Italy

The Maggot

1973 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Anti-drug film set in Harlem.

Why Does the Christmas Tree Have Prickly Needles

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

This story will shed light on the fact why a firtree does not have usual leaves but the number of needles. It is because the nature had to protect the tree from invasions of a cunning villain. This helped the tree to defeat the mercenary invader but changed the appearance of the forest beauty forever.

Performances II

1973 • 38 min • Germany, United States of America

A collection of performance works enacted for the camera. The performances focus on interventions on the human body, using feathers, hair and garment-like sculptures worn by a performer, and are set against a neutral background or an otherwise deserted outdoor location.

Mountain Wolf

1973 • 53 min • Turkey

Turkish western centered around a variation of the Tomas Milian character "Cuchillo" from the Spaghetti Western classics THE BIG GUNDOWN and RUN MAN RUN.

Being of the Beginning

1973 • 3 min

Animated line drawings of people and objects are metamorphosed into other objects and/or abstract shapes, with musical accompaniment

In the Good Old Fashioned Way

1973 • 30 min

The Old Regular Baptist Church is one of the oldest denominations in the Appalachian mountains. Its followers cherish its traditional practices and its sense of everlasting values in a changing world. In the Good Old Fashioned Way documents a riverside baptism, foot-washing ceremonies, an Association Meeting, the music of the church, and memorial services held at a family ceremony. Widespread only among mountain people, this religion is uniquely a product of Appalachian culture — and this documentary is a rare look at its practices.

Yellow Ribbons

1973 • 57 min • Yugoslavia

A story about acquaintance arranged via matrimonial ads in the newspapers. At the same time, it is a story about an attempt to marry and tragicomic ballad about the unusual end of a relationship that arose between the warehouseman Nidza and the potential bride Rada.