All Films

The Owl and the Raven: An Eskimo Legend

1973 • 6 min • Canada

Using life-like seal fur puppets, this animated short by Co Hoedeman tells the traditional Inuit tale of the owl and the raven.

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John

1973 • 60 min

During World War II, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli attempts to save Jews in Italy from Nazi exterminators.

James Paul McCartney

1973 • 50 min • United Kingdom

«James Paul McCartney» is a 1973 television special produced by ATV and starring English musician Paul McCartney and his then current rock group Wings. It was first broadcast on 16 April 1973 in the United States on the ABC network, and was later broadcast in the United Kingdom on 10 May 1973. «James Paul McCartney» was McCartney's first such special since the Beatles' 1967 television film «Magical Mystery Tour» and was intended to showcase his versatility as an artist and entertainer.

The Men who Made the Movies: William A. Wellman

1973 • 58 min • United States of America

Career overview of Hollywood director "Wild Bill" Wellman,

The Fight Game

1973 • 53 min

1973 documentary on boxing from filmmaker Philip Donnellan, inspired by an original Radio Ballad of the same name by Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger

Wham and Eggs

1973 • 6 min • United States of America

While looking for a thousand year egg in a Japanese contest, Blue Racer stumbles upon a dragon who hatches in one of it, and the dragon thinks he is his mother. After many misfortunes raising him, Blue Racer sends the dragon to Tokyo to become a movie star. In the end, Blue Racer reads in a newspaper that the dragon did became an actor.

Veruschka for Jun Ropé

1973 • 1 min • Japan

Avedon's commercial advertisement for the Japanese womenswear brand Jun Ropé features an innovative and unexpected approach to the genre that reflects the famed photographer's exceptional signature style. Opening onto a behind-the-scenes look at a photo shoot, the camera follows the supermodel Veruschka as she transforms from a suit-clad, mustached character in drag to an unabashedly glamorous fashion icon dressed in a designer gown and posing for Avedon himself. While initially produced for a commercial client with the leading industry talents of the day, the video underscores the artist’s savvy understanding of the performative—and ultimately flexible—nature of social constructions of gender, femininity, and the self.

Menses

1973 • 4 min

A wry comedy on the disagreeable aspects of menstruation where women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. MENSES combines both the imagery and the politics of menstruation in a fine blend of comedy and drama.

I Was/I Am

1973 • 6 min

One of the first 3 16 mm films made by Barbara Hammer. The filmmaker changes from a damsel in gown and crown to a leather jacket motorcycle dyke.

Come Out Fighting

1973 • 47 min • Australia

Aboriginal boxer Al Dawson is torn by the demands of fight promoters and aboriginal protestors. He eventually decides to reject them all and gives away his chance at a world title.

If a Man Answers

1973 • 30 min

Dogs are like their owners - grey-hounds are nasty, staffords are for fighting. You can't blame the dogs - it's nature.

Highland Crafts

1973 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A look at the traditional crafts of the Scottish Highlands.

Lily

1973 • 60 min • United States of America

TV special starring Lily Tomlin

Festë e madhe

1973 • 55 min • Albania

The documentary shows the tour of performances throughout Albania by the national folk song and dance ensemble.

Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow

1973 • 6 min • United States of America

It's winter and The Blue Racer is looking for a place to stay. He comes across a cabin that's perfect except for a bear that wants it for himself.

New Friends

1973 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The sloppy boy is careless with his belongings: hat, mittens and shoes. They leave him and find new friends.

Life Times Nine

1973 • 15 min

Oscar nominated short film from 1973. Life Times Nine is a Canadian short film produced by Insight Productions in conjunction with a group of nine students from Toronto, Ontario’s SEED Alternative School, the film’s concept was for each student to produce and direct their own short film on the concept of life.

Ananse's Farm

1973 • 7 min • Canada

Ananse is a spider with a heart full of concern over the enmity existing between his friends. Instead of mediating in a straightforward way, he devises a scheme using a little deception to bring his friends to amicable terms. The moral of this folktale from Ghana is that employing the wrong means to an end brings undesired consequences, no matter how right the motive.

One Hundred a Day

1973 • 8 min • Australia

A young girl is forced to continue working at her machine all day in a 1930s shoe factory after a visit to a backyard abortionist. Based on the short story 'How beautiful are thy feet' by Alan Marshall.

Don't Call Me Mama Anymore

1973 • 51 min

Musical special of Cass Elliot formerly known as Mama Cass, featuring Cass' mother, Dick Van Dyke, Joel Grey and fellow Mama Michelle Phillips

Two Guys from Tick Ridge

1973 • 16 min • United States of America

Two men narrate a series of home movies filmed in 3-D.

Four Stones for Kanemitsu

1973 • 28 min • United States of America

Four Stones for Kanemitsu is a 1973 American short documentary film, written and produced by June Wayne and filmed by Terry Sanders. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film is educational and records in details each of the steps in making of a color lithograph by artist, Matsumi Kanemitsu.

Amanda Fallon

1973 • 60 min

A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager.

That Girl in Wonderland

1973 • 51 min • United States of America

Anne Marie imagines herself in the stories "Alice in Wonderland," "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "Hansel and Gretel," "The Wizard of Oz," and "Cinderella".