All Films

Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat

1972 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

The true story of a rather unusual gymnasium class on the end of the 19th century and their professor. Full of intellectuals and young scientists, writers and artists, this class was highly with potential and many of them became famous in Serbian history.

Survival of Spaceship Earth

1972 • 60 min

Earth's environmental crisis--brought about by uncontrolled technological progress--is endangering life on a global scale. At the core of the threats to the planet - wars, overpopulation, pollution, and the depletion of natural resources - is the inadequacy of the nation state to come to terms with the surmounting problems of twentieth century living. What is urgently needed is the kind of international cooperation where nation states relinquish part of their sovereignty to a world body entrusted with the management of mankind's future.

Barom-1: The Movie

1972 • 24 min • Japan

Two children merge into the superhero Barom-1 to fight the evil Dolge. Theatrical version of episode 14 of the Barom-1 TV series

Uma Mensagem de Chico Xavier

1972 • 11 min • Brazil

Documentary short about Brazilian medium Chico Xavier.

Elton John at the Royal Festival Hall, London with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

1972 • 53 min

Elton John and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform many of Elton's best on February 5, 1972. Tracks performed are Your Song, Take Me To The Pilot, Sixty Years On, Tiny Dancer, The King Must Die, Indian Sunset , Border Song , Madman Across The Water, Burn Down The Mission, Goodbye

The Three Robbers

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

An animated adaptation of the picture book by Toni Ungerer

The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

1972 • 32 min • United States of America

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. "S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of OTHERS. This last is a process that requires a WITNESS; and what 'idea' may finally have inserted itself into the sensible world we can still scarcely guess, for the CAMERA would seem the perfect Eidetic Witness, staring with perfect compassion where we can scarcely bear to glance." – Hollis Frampton

Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking

1972 • 60 min

Telecast December 1972, DON RICKLES: ALIVE AND KICKING was a huge ratings extravaganza for the network, especially when you consider the guest stars on Rickle's comedy special: Carroll O'Connor, Harvey Korman, Johnny Carson, Bob Newhart, Anne Meara and Don Adams!

How Frightening Is The Darkness Of The Soul!

1972 • 60 min • Iran

In this experimental Iranian film, a being who has turned its back on the familiar and ordinary daily life embarks on a quest to find an escape to the beyond. It eventually reaches those who have already attained liberation and joins them. Leaving behind the ruins of its past days, it becomes part of another group of beings from a different world.

Friday Night in the Coliseum

1972 • 35 min • United States of America

Friday Night in the Coliseum is a short film featuring wrestling performances recorded at the Sam Houston Coliseum, in Houston, Texas, along with interviews with audience members and wrestling promoter Paul Boesch. The film features many wrestlers who were well-known in Houston, including The Crusher, Nick Kozak, Red Bastien, Dory Funk, Stan Stasiak, Johnny Valentine, Thunderbolt Patterson and Wild Bull Curry. The creation of this film was supported by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, however, the film never aired on television.

Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction

1972 • 48 min

During a break in rehearsals with the Israel Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein sat down at the piano to film an introduction to the poetry and music of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

Le bonhomme

1972 • 58 min • Canada

December 12th

1972 • 42 min • Italy

On December 12th, 1969 a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, along with other anarchists, for questioning regarding the attack. He was held and interrogated for three days, longer than Italian law specified that people could be held without seeing a judge. Just before midnight on December 15, 1969 Pinelli was seen to fall to his death from a fourth floor window of the Milan police station. Although officially deemed a suicide, the reporter who watched the fall from the street maintained that he was pushed. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli were put under investigation in 1971 for murder but charges were dropped because of lack of evidence.

The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop

1972 • 3 min • Canada

An engaging illustration, by animation artist Rhoda Leyer, of the fable in which the warm sun proves to the cold wind that persuasion is better than force when it comes to making a man take off his coat.

Az ítélet

1972 • 18 min • Hungary

Dear Janice

1972 • 17 min • United States of America

Beckett cycles through a limited number of drawings, but adds new information to each drawing every time we see it, giving the sense of a world that is infinitely rich and also obviously contained tightly within the edges of the paper. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Did Somebody Drop His Mouse?

1972 • 39 min

Never released 1972 film of the making of Harry Nilsson's record "Son of Schmilsson" in London.

Truth for Ruth

1972 • 4 min • United States of America

Muffled, inaudible sound and no image to speak of make this one a real crowd pleaser.

The Last Goon Show of All

1972 • 59 min

Sellers, Secombe and Milligan reunite for one last show.

The Nashville Coyote

1972 • 49 min

A surprised coyote stowaway on a freight train ends up in Nashville where he meets a friendly beagle and an aspiring songwriter. The songwriter is unable to sell his songs, so he returns to California, taking the coyote back to his desert home

Leonardo's Diary

1972 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia, Italy

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.

Computer Perspective

1972 • 10 min • United States of America

Based on an existing slide show the Eames Office had made about the exhibition, A Computer Perspective (produced for IBM in 1971). The film is a visual survey of the collection of artifacts, ideas, events and memorabilia displayed in the exhibition to represent important milestones in the development of the electronic computer.

Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?

1972 • 9 min

A documentary about the making of Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy "What's Up Doc?" starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.

The Velvet Underground at Bataclan '72

1972 • 18 min

Recorded on French TV, the concert marked the first time since the breakup of The Velvet Underground that Reed, Cale and Nico were on stage together.