All Films

Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.

1972 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972 • 51 min • United States of America

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.

A Thousand and One Hands

1972 • 60 min • Morocco

In Morocco, an old dyer and his young son Miloud work transporting wool packs. So begins this story in the hands of thousands of old men, women and children involved in meticulous weaving carpets.

The Hold Up

1972 • 14 min • United States of America

Three men, laid off from their factory jobs, plan a gas station robbery.

Markheim

1972 • 25 min • Poland

During a botched robbery, Markheim murders an elderly antique dealer. Consumed by guilt and confusion, he begins to lose his grip on reality until a spectral dog leads him to a mysterious figure who knows all his secrets. Based on the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Manzanar

1972 • 16 min

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Summer of '63

1972 • 21 min • United States of America

A doctor remembers back to the summer of 1963 when he was a freewheeling and irresponsible high school senior. What made him change his life to want to become a doctor? A condensed version of the Davis-produced feature film V.D. (1961) with added footage.

Cold Pizza

1972 • 19 min

An engaging story of young enterprise, pitfalls, and eventual success that all young viewers will enjoy. It is about two young Greek boys in Montréal who try to earn some extra money for a trip to their sunny homeland by delivering pizzas. The misadventures they encounter and how they surmount them make an amusing story, full of youthful initiative.

The Woman I Love

1972 • 60 min

The love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.

The Second Arctic Winter Games

1972 • 28 min • Canada

The Games included many sports seen in Olympic competition, plus others--for example, pirautaqturniq, the Inuit skill of hitting an object with a ten meter-long sled dog whip. This film captures the all-out participation in the week-long events hosted by Whitehorse, capital of the Yukon, with competitors from all over the Arctic including Alaska, and with observers from the Soviet Union.

Ainslie Trailer

1972 • 2 min • United States of America

A Musical Ad sung with gusto and sincerity by Miss Ainslie Pryor. A MUST for A.P. fans.

The Open Window

1972 • 12 min

A man travels to the country house of a distant aunt in search of peace and quiet. But when he arrives, he learns of a tragedy that happened there which keeps the house and the family frozen in time.

Mainstreet Soldier

1972 • 35 min

World War II veteran Ray LeClair relives his marches through a haze of alcoholism on Winnipeg's Historic Main Street. The film draws from Ray's two battlefields, war and the street.

Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter

1972 • 60 min

Popeye, Olive Oyl and more King Features Syndicate comic strip characters are invited on a cruise hosted by Professor Grimsby, a mad scientist who wants to eliminate laughter from the world. When the ship is held hostage on his island lair, it's up to the much more action-inclined Mandrake the Magician, Steve Canyon, and Flash Gordon (among others) to save the funnymakers from their eternal inprisonment.

Alpha

1972 • 1 min

One of a series of three films on mathematics conceived and produced by the Eames Office with Ray Redheffer, professor of Mathematics at UCLA. A stop-motion animation film, it begins with an algebraic expression, elaborates on it, and then reduces it to its original form. Told without narration, the film was designed to be supplemented with the explanation of the classroom teacher. Columbus International Film Festival Bronze Chris Plaque Award-C, 1975.

Plastics

1972 • 11 min • United States of America

Visual comment on things made of plastic from their massed produced beginnings to their appearances in the environment and finally to the garbage dump.

Seishinfudoki: Himerareta ai

1972 • 31 min • Japan

Pinku from 1972.

The Last of the Curlews

1972 • 60 min • United States of America

After being hunted to near-extinction, the last male Eskimo curlew searches for a mate while making the annual migration from the arctic tundra to the nesting grounds in Argentina.

Sei-shin fudoki 6: Noroi no shûgen

1972 • 31 min • Japan

Salwa, the Little Girl Who Talks to Cows

1972 • 19 min

The High Dam project led to the creation of new communities and the reclamation of land. The film tells the story of a young girl living near the newly irrigated areas. She forms a bond with a cow named Salwa at the project site. When the cow dies, the girl is devastated. A veterinarian gives her a new cow, and the state eventually hands over the reclaimed land to the villagers.

Reou-Takh

1972 • 45 min • Senegal

Arguably the first African film made that engages the topic of slavery. African film pioneer Mahama Traore (more commonly referred to as Johnson), offers an uncompromising narrative that seeks to address totality of the African slave narrative.

The Painting

1972 • 12 min • Switzerland

Beavers intercuts scenes of traffic in Bern with details from the 15th-century altarpiece The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus. In its revised form, the film gains a psychodramatic intensity, juxtaposing Markopoulos in shafts of light with a torn self-portrait and recurring shots of a shattered windowpane.

Zorgon: The H-Bomb Beast From Hell

1972 • 9 min • United States of America

A reported monster is terrorizing a local community, but the police have no leads. A man who is fed up with the killings calls a handful of his friends and forms a posse to look for the creature. They head to Bronson Canyon to see if they can uncover who's behind all of these deaths.

The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't

1972 • 30 min • United States of America

A talking squirrel must save the holiday by rescuing a young Pilgrim boy and a young Native American boy that has gone missing in the woods on Thanksgiving day.