All Films

My Childhood

1972 • 47 min • United Kingdom

The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

The Golfer

1972 • 2 min • United States of America

Animated Short

Kadoyng

1972 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An alien spaceship lands on earth, and its inhabitant decides to help a trio of children prevent their village being destroyed to make way for a new motorway.

Confessions

1972 • 11 min • United States of America

Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Panda! Go Panda!

1972 • 35 min • Japan

The plot follows Mimiko, a bright little girl left alone when her grandmother leaves on a trip. Making a few stops at some local stores, Mimiko comes home to her house in a bamboo grove and finds a baby panda named Panny sleeping on the back doorstep. She quickly makes friends with the little panda, and invites him in for a drink. His father, PapaPanda, soon comes to visit, and they decide to become a family after PapaPanda offers to.

Nippon Tuck

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

In a Mexican town, The Blue Racer flies in a plane and tries to hypnotize the Japanese Beetle.

The Creditors

1972 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Gustave meets Adolph who tries to show him that Gustave’s fiancée doesn’t love him.

Still Waters

1972 • 55 min

A middle-aged couple who are fairly tired of each other go out on a picnic for the day. However, they row, and Maud wanders off and talks to other people she meets. Eventually, the couple come together again, and the day has helped them to understand each other a little better.

The Lorax

1972 • 25 min • United States of America

The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the environmental destruction caused by his greed.

Andy Warhol

1972 • 53 min • United States of America

With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a brilliant manipulator, dedicated voyeur and person of astute commercial judgment.

The Exorcism

1972 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Four friends gather for Christmas dinner at an old cottage. Suddenly, there's a power failure and the phone goes dead. Then their wine turns to blood and the turkey makes them violently ill. Then things really get strange!

Mountain Born

1972 • 60 min • United States of America

A boy learns the duties of a shepherd from his idol, the ranch foreman, high in the Colorado mountains. When the foreman becomes ill, the boy has to take the sheep into the mountains where they will graze for the summer season. A fierce storm almost causes tragedy as the boy leads the sheep back home.

Movin' On

1972 • 60 min • United States of America

A race car driver and his friend, a motorcycle racer and former POW, join forces to tour the U.S. in search of competition.

Zagor

1972 • 60 min • Turkey

This film is about Zagor’s revenge upon four men that persecuted his family. Rodrigo, Lopez and Şerif take the mine that Zagor discovers. They don’t even give him a share. They deposit him famished, thirsty and on foot in the desert. Along the journey, he meets Mr. Taylor and his daughter. Mr. Taylor teaches Zagor how to use a gun quickly. Zagor goes back and settles the score with those who have done him wrong. But the villains do not sit idle. They kill Zagor’s sibling Katito, mother, and father. They also kill Mr. Taylor and steal his horse. Zagor marries Mr. Taylor’s daughter. He then exacts revenge on Rodrigo, Lopez, Şerif and Karlo one by one

Quiet Afternoon

1972 • 30 min

Trish is a lonely young wife in a tense marriage, living at the top of a high rise block of flats. She looks to the police and her husband for help when she finds her baby has been stolen from its pram.

Robinson Crusoe

1972 • 47 min • Australia

The only survivor of a ship's crew, Robinson finds himself alone with his dog, his cat and his parrot on an almost deserted island...

Frog Story

1972 • 15 min • United States of America

Oscar nominated short film from 1972

Lights Out

1972 • 60 min • United States of America

A toymaker develops a method to create dolls that kill. This was a pilot for a proposed but unrealized TV series to be titled "Light Out!," based on the much earlier radio program of the same name.

Avándaro

1971 • 20 min

Directed by Alfredo Gurrola

The Golden Coin

1971 • 11 min • Norway

Trygve Rasmussen is one of the senior figures within Norwegian animation. He started as an animator Ivo Caprino in 1954. Through his film company Point Film made a series of short animated films, animated commercials and animated effects for films until 1980. The gold coin is a cartoon animation.

Inside Dope

1971 • 33 min

"A pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. Very funny and slightly sinister, like Red Skelton in the sky with diamonds." - Ron Padgett

The Destruction of St. Patrick's College 1971

1971 • 8 min

As the wreckers ball lays waste to a fine set of old building in East Melbourne a visiting professor considers the value of our national identity.

Commercial War

1971 • 4 min • Japan

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.

Just South of My Memories

1971 • 8 min • Sweden

1971 short film by Håkan Dahlström.