All Films

A Gay Day

1973 • 3 min • United States of America

An experimental film with lesbian themes

The New Tango

1973 • 26 min • Cuba, Argentina

The New Tango (El Nuevo Tango) was not shown in Argentina for a long time as it deals with the ascent of Argentinean president Hector Campora in May 1973, and features Cuban and Chilean presidents, Osvaldo Dorticos and Salvador Allende. A million people gathered on the Plaza de Mayo to acclaim the new President. One of Cámpora's first presidential actions was a granting of amnesty to political prisoners who where jailed during the dictatorship. On 28 May Argentina restored diplomatic relations with Cuba, which then received Argentine aid - such as food and industrial products - to break the United States embargo against Cuba.

Sandman

1973 • 4 min • United States of America

Characters morph into objects and each other in this stop motion animation made with sand.

Frank Film

1973 • 9 min • United States of America

A compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is relating, or neither. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A Cricket in Times Square

1973 • 26 min • United States of America

Chester Cricket gets trapped inside a picnic basket and transported from his home in Connecticut to the middle of New York City. Alone and lost, he meets up with Harry and Tucker, a cat and mouse that have somehow become friends, and with Mario, a young boy who works with his father at a Times Square newsstand. When it's discovered that Chester can play songs he hears from the radio just by rubbing his legs, people begin to come from all around to listen. Though Chester is happy with his new-found friends, he will eventually have to say good-bye and return to his home.

Angles of Incidence

1973 • 8 min • United Kingdom

“This film is the starting point of a continuous investigation into ways of presenting cubist space in terms of the flat surface of the film screen. The film image is the view through a window, the window-frame providing a constant spatial reference point, as the view beyond is modified by a series of major and minor variations in camera viewpoint. The film is presented un-edited just as it was filmed in the camera. The patterns of camera movement are not the product of a pre-given shooting script, but rather they evolved actually at the time of filming.” – William Raban

Friendship Song

1973 • 16 min • East Germany, Soviet Union

Cartoon based on letters and drawings of children of Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic.

The Apocalypse of the Animals

1973 • 41 min

A documentary about the life of wild animals.

Maxi Cat: Broom

1973 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Maxi Cat in the episode dealing with a very special broom.

The Walt Disney Story

1973 • 25 min

The Walt Disney Story film, which uses Walt Disney interviews and other recordings for the narration and features rare stills and film clips, was eventually released as an educational film and in 1994 on video cassette for purchase in the parks. This film is based on the the Main Street attraction at Disneyland, in the Opera House that opened on April 8, 1973, taking the place of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. It is a movie, narrated by Walt himself, that tells his life story.

The Childhood of Ratibor

1973 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The plot takes place in the pre-Christian Russia and revolves around a young boy Ratibor who becomes a victim of the Khazar invasion. Based on the historical novel Primordial Rus' by Valentin Ivanov.

Quelques larmes de sang

1973 • 42 min • France

Family, religion, food, sex, death. All the obsessions of Yvan Lagrange in one film.

Our Street Was Paved with Gold

1973 • 29 min

Filmmaker Albert Kish revisits Montreal's St Lawrence Boulevard in the '70s. The street, also known as "The Main," is a little Europe with many languages, foods and small courtesies that make a stranger feel at home.

VW-Voyou

1973 • 19 min • France, Niger

A man rides a VW Beetle through the plains of Niger.

Jra Cm

1973 • 1 min

Shûji Terayama's commercial for the Japanese Racing Association.

2'45"

1973 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Raban layers recordings of successive film performances in which he stands before a projection, states the date and time, and says "A camera is filming the audience watching yesterday's audience watching the blank screen. Sounds of the projection and the audience's responses are being recorded."

Alcohol Drugs Or Alternatives

1973 • 25 min

This color 1973 educational film is about drug abuse. Tom Smothers and Christopher George are featured.This film shows how young people may attempt to deal with insecurities and inadequacies by taking drugs/alcohol. The film stresses that young people can help one another and find other ways than substance abuse.

La tête

1973 • 7 min • France

Jasper Johns: Decoy

1973 • 18 min

Jasper Johns’s Decoy is rooted inside the notions of reproduction, transformation and memory. Believing that an image gains new meaning each time it is presented, Johns boldly confronts his own past work, most notably Ale Cans (1964), and uses Decoy as a method of metamorphosis. The repetition of certain motifs allows both Johns and his spectators to confront the change an image goes through when approached from a different angle or placed in a new artistic context. As noted in the film, “each time a motif is used and reused additional memories accrue, new layers of meaning, and the image itself begins to acquire its own history.” (Jasper Johns) It is through Johns’s reimagining that the items he features in his work take on new life and grow from object to art, thus redirecting society’s interpretation.

Saitane

1973 • 58 min • France, Niger

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the different parties, the sorcerer promises love, good health and riches in exchange for the most extravagant rewards. One day someone exposes him, and the sorcerer becomes the laughing stock of the whole village. Desperate, he throws himself of a cliff.

Hoggar 1973

1973 • 20 min • France

In 1973, 6 guides from the National Ski and Mountaineering School (ENSA), including Charles Daubas and Walter Cecchinel, left by truck from Chamonix to Tamanrasset in the desert in Algeria with the aim of climbing some peaks of the Atakor massif including Adaouda and Tizouyag where they do the first of "La Voie de l'ENSA".

Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

1973 • 15 min • Germany

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities.

Snow White and the Seven Perverts

1973 • 11 min

Animation, Short, Comedy Granted an "X" Certificate (adults only) by the British Board of Film Censors. The animators and writers initially chose to remain anonymous. However, veteran British cell animator and rostrum cameraman Marcus Parker-Rhodes has come forward to claim that this cartoon is "mostly my work." He also credits Stan Hayward as the writer.

Well, Just You Wait! 7

1973 • 9 min

Volk desperately tries to get onto a cruise ship to get Zayats.