All Films

Stolen Moments

1972 • 26 min • United Kingdom

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen.

Jack O'Lantern

1972 • 23 min • United States of America

A leprechaun, who had changed himself into a pumpkin seed to hibernate for the winter, comes to life as Mr. Jack O'Lantern, who then uses his pumpkin shell to help scare away Zelda the Witch and Archibald the Warlock.

Salty, the Hijacked Harbor Seal

1972 • 49 min • United States of America

A biologist helps save a young seal who was caught in a fishing net, but the seal hides in a small boat, not knowing that it is about to be towed far from the bay. The seal causes all sorts of trouble, until the biologist takes him back to the bay.

Takara Yukari Maruhi Onsutêji

1972 • 29 min • Japan

Short pinku

The Sunshine Sisters

1972 • 36 min • United States of America

"THE SUNSHINE SISTERS looks like a 1944 postcard that was shot in black and white, but colored with garish grease pencil reds, yellows and greens. Likewise, the film sounds like the scores of at least two-dozen grade B melodramas mixed together with an egg beater. The results are hilarious, ludicrous and incongruous - a love comic book of doomed women and handsome, nefarious young men caught in a web of dramatic cliches, pushed ad absurdum. Elvira Cartwright, dying of movie star disease, is seen alternatingly clutching her waning heart and being taken unfair advantage of in some of the most bizarre places imaginable. Sarah Cartwright wears a phony leopard skin jacket, pointy plastic sunglasses, and gold-toned sandals .... The sisters are played by Jan Lash and Ainslie Pryor. Musical compilation is by Bob Cowan." – program notes, Film Forum, New York

Little Johnny

1972 • 1 min • United States of America

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

Pink 8 Ball

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther goes hot on the trail of a basketball with a mind of its own. This lands our hero into an assortment of predicaments.

Knightsbridge

1972 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Francesca's upbringing has been sheltered, but her fiancé isn't slow to realise that his future mother-in-law is in a very lucrative line of business.

The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night

1972 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Written by Terry Nation, Robert Hardy plays the eponymous hero of this 1972 one-off BBC drama; an occult detective who travels around in a lavish, bulletproof locomotive called 'The Tsar'. Along with his assistants Thomas and Caleb (Julian Holloway and John Rhys-Davies) Baldick is called in to investigate the latest in a series of brutal deaths at a desolate abbey.

Frank Stein

1972 • 3 min • Spain

Filmed before his feature-length Arrebato, Zulueta’s Frank Stein is a personal reading of horror cult classic Frankenstein (1931), filmed directly from its television broadcast and reducing Whale’s original to only three packed and dizzying minutes, during which the film's sensitive monster evolves at an unusual rate.

Love 2002

1972 • 24 min • East Germany, Germany

Hosted by futurist moderator Chris Wallasch, this playful documentary speculates on what love and relationships might look like in the year 2002. Through interviews with travelers at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport and a collage of witty flashbacks and imagined flashforwards, the film reflects on enduring questions of romance, family, and changing social norms.

Bailey on Visconti

1972 • 30 min

Bailey interviews Italian film director Luchino Visconti.

Monsters and Magic

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

A behind the scenes look at the making of "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad".

Punch and Judo

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

The Japanese Beetle uses his karate skills to fight The Blue Racer.

Sei-shin fudoki 1: Yasei no onna

1972 • 30 min • Japan

Short pinku, distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972.

Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary

1972 • 60 min • United States of America

Directed by one of Davis' former students, the documentary shows Davis speaking at public rallies and interacting with her students, as well as covering the controversial arrest of Davis in 1970.

The Fishing Party

1972 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Three miners plan a weekend fishing.

Escape

1972 • 52 min • Yugoslavia

By using force and threats, two captured partisans try to persuade the local village commander to set them free.

Blinker's Spy-Spotter

1972 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Blinker, so named because he blinks whenever he has a bright idea for a new invention, is the son of an eccentric Professor who is developing a top secret Pulsar Crystal X. Blinker's inventions help him to be a successful goalkeeper and to keep an eye on The Masons gang - and some real crooks.

Love and Hisses

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

While feeling amorous, the Blue Racer hits on what he believes is a fellow snake but turns out to be a tough elephant's trunk. The elephant gives him a pounding but hurts his trunk in the process. Coming upon the Japanese Beetle, the pachyderm asks him to perform a little chiropractic karate on his sore trunk. The Beetle obliges, and in gratitude the elephant promises to protect him from a certain serpent.

Dere Mr President,

1972 • 13 min

Based on the popular children's book compilation, this propaganda piece for the then-operating United States Information Agency highlights humorous letters sent to President Richard Nixon

Take Your Time

1972 • 5 min • Soviet Union

About a bear cub who wanted to become a circus star, but was late for the circus express train because he violated traffic rules.

Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort

1972 • 31 min • United Kingdom

Directed by renowned British film director Tony Palmer, this film captures the band at the Maidstone Fiesta during the summer of 1970 as they run through their set of the time. This included various jigs and reels, and the songs Sir Patrick Spens and Now Be Thankful. The film also features two songs from Matthews Southern Comfort, the band led by former Fairport Convention member, Ian Matthews.

A Warning to the Curious

1972 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion. On digging the crown up, Paxton is stalked by its supernatural guardian.