All Films

Room Film 1973

1973 • 55 min • United Kingdom

"This film is a consequent continuation and contraction of my film work, research which began with Room (1967). The film is not a translation of anything, it is not a representation of anything, not even of consciousness."

Terres d'arròs

1973 • 32 min • Spain

Social documentary about the rice cultivation crisis in Valencia. The dialectic that the montage establishes between the visual and sound aspects is adapted to its narrative structure: manual labor versus mechanization, agricultural labor versus language, culture, and folklore.

Finks Make Movies

1973 • 10 min • Australia

"The infamous Finks bikie gang caught off-guard as they shoot their latest 8mm movie epic: the story of a bikie and hillbilly showdown. " - Filmmakers Co-operatives Catalogue of Independent Film 1975/6

Ratopolis

1973 • 56 min • Canada

A study of the wily brown rat, humankind's unwanted companion throughout the world, whose bite on the world's food resources adds to the growing threat of shortage. In a normal, free-ranging environment, the rat is more than a match for its hosts and colonies flourish. Under abnormal conditions of restricted space and limited food, a rat colony loses all 'social' constraints on behaviour. The film has implicit analogies for all animal behaviour, including humanity's. Plagues, predators and extermination attempts are among the topics discussed.

Secrets

1973 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production line.

Un Crimen tan Comentado

1973 • 13 min • Chile

Film about a crime that occurred in the La Pincoya town, where two residents murdered two women. Through a popular song, poverty is talked about, but also about the strength of community life, breaking the prejudices established by the media.

Venceremos, solidaridad

1973 • 60 min • Chile

Anonymous short documentary released immediately after the Chilean military coup of 1973. It recapitulates the presidency of Salvador Allende which was terminated by the military coup that assassinated him and installed a dictatorship. The documentary captures the aftermath of the event and the efforts of international protesters and diplomats in their claim for justice.

Os Brasileiros e a Conquista do Ar

1973 • 11 min • Brazil

The first Brazilians who engaged in aviation, from Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão with his hot air balloon to Alberto Santos Dumont, giving Brazil a prominent place in aviation. The creation of the Military Air Mail (CAM) and the Brazilian aviation industry. Commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Santos Dumont. The house where Santos Dumont was born; Bartolomeu Gusmão (Santos - SP); small hot air balloon Júlio César Ribeiro de Souza; 1881: his Victory balloon flies in Paris; Augusto Ribeiro; Santos Dumont: the balloon in the Torre Eifel, the 14 bis, the 'Demoiselle': real scenes of the time. Edu Chaves flies the Rio-Buenos Aires route in the 1920s. Current era: manufacture of the Bandeirante (assembly line). President Médici flies in the first Bandeirante; Xavante and Ipanema, Universal, rego elo and other models manufactured by Embraer in São José dos Campos.

B.C.: The First Thanksgiving

1973 • 25 min • United States of America

To add flavor to her rock soup, the Fat Broad commands Wiley, Peter, Thor, etc. to catch a turkey. The problem is that no one knows what a turkey is except for the turkey himself. In spite of this, the chase is on. Mostly a series of running gags, this animated special did a superb job of capturing the humor of Johnny Hart's B.C. comic strip.

Captain

1973 • 31 min • Soviet Union

The story of how the hero of Viktor Dragunsky's stories - Deniska Korablev - meets his uncle, a sea captain.

For Sylvia, or the Air Show

1973 • 55 min

Was this the finest hour? Sifting the truth and fiction about the Battle of Britain, Burrows and Harding give their own account of how the nation sees its heroes - and itself.

Play, My Pipe

1973 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A story about a kind and gentle little hippo who tried to find a talent that would be both useful and appreciated by those around him. He did his best to learn a helpful trade, but nothing seemed to work out. Then, one day, he realized that his true calling was to bring joy to people and animals, to make them laugh and entertain them with something that might seem small and insignificant at first glance.

Parents -- Who Needs Them?

1973 • 10 min • United States of America

Jimmy learns to appreciate his parents when a hand puppet dressed as a jester visits him up in the middle of the night and renders him invisible.

Trees in the River, Kent OH

1973 • 1 min • United States of America

Chega de Demanda

1973 • 10 min • Brazil

Documentary addressing the composer Cartola and the transformations that took place in Morro Carioca and in Samba during his life. Founder of the Escola de Samba Estação Primeira de Mangueira, Cartola has his life and his music marked by his community and his School, far from the city His school, created as a playful and expressive center for the mangueirense, has now become a point of tourist attraction. This made work possible for the inhabitants of the hill, but it transformed the spirit of samba and its aesthetics.

The Mean Brothers "Get Stood Up"

1973 • 4 min • United States of America

Two brothers are stood up and lament through song. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Peege

1973 • 28 min

An ailing elderly woman is paid a perfunctory visit by her family while she sits despondently in a nursing home. Nobody can get through to her except for her young grandson, who talks to her about the happy times they shared between the two of them when she was well.

Kommer hem och är snäll

1973 • 25 min • Sweden

Sören Hellgren comes home drunk one night and his wife Tyra is furious because he is boozed up and has spent a lot of money. Sören doesn't understand why she is mad, he thinks she should be happy that he came home at all.

Intolerance (​abridged)

1973 • 4 min

Standish Lawder's four minute abridgement of D.W. Griffith's 1916 colossus. Processed "entirely automatically" and 'skip-printed' on homemade hardware, Intolerance is played at a speed and rhythm "as fast as possible, and yet one can still follow the narrative continuity of the film itself"; According to Lawder, "A kind of classic comic condensation, an encapsulation of this grand monument". Premiered in 1973 on television on Screening Room with Robert Gardner, to a lukewarm reaction from those present.

The Baggs

1973 • 11 min • United States of America

Two sacks of junk come alive and escape from their collector

From the Labour of Baruch d'Espinoza

1973 • 32 min

From Spinoza's Ethica 82 sentences were selected without a strict coherence and re-assembled in seven components. Each component was filmed four times at least, in a different setting with different actors. Spinoza's sentences are taken as dialogues 'tout court', and not as a collection of opinions. Spinoza's style of philosophical thinking is presented as an activity in the first place, which is then revealed by each individual actor in his own way.

Fedora's Sorrow

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The old Fedora so launched a household that all housewares and tableware were angry at her and decided to leave the house.

In Search of Ancient Astronauts

1973 • 51 min • Germany, United States of America

An edited version of the 1970 German documentary "Erinnerungen an die Zukunft" (Chariots of the Gods), this examines the theory that aliens have landed on Earth in ancient times and were responsible for many of mankind's oldest mysteries.

The Raven

1973 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

Experimental short film from Yugoslavia.