All Films

Golfers in a Scottish Landscape

1971 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Two visitors enjoying Scotland, an enthusiastic but inexperienced golfer improving on the world's greatest courses; his wife exploring spectacular places visited by the first known lady golfer in history - Mary, Queen of Scots. The commentary of Scot's actor Andrew Crawford links romantic past with sporting present in a film which captures the flavour of the country and its national game.

Man Failure

1971 • 17 min

Directed by Michael Shoring.

Good-by Marilyn

1971 • 5 min • Japan

An erotic pop animation seemingly symbolizing his youth when his soul was taken by the Hollywood actress.

Wildwood Flower

1971 • 4 min

As the Carter Family sings "Wildwood Flower" an elaborate embroidered border is created around an image of a nude woman riding slowly toward the camera, producing a kind of cameo in motion. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Canadian Film-Makers' Distribution Centre in 2011.

Encyclopedia Britannica

1971 • 6 min

One frame of film for each page: the history of human knowledge becomes an illegible, strobing stream of images.

Chévere o la victoria de Wellington

1971 • 20 min • Venezuela

A young man roams the streets of Caracas.

La Bandera que Levantamos

1971 • 15 min • Uruguay

A record of the founding act of the Frente Amplio political party in 1971.

Portrait of Ramona

1971 • 25 min • United States of America

This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to get started making another movie (we had completed PAGAN RHAPSODY the year before). I said "okay," and launched her in a photographed series of telephone calls, not really knowing who was going to be on the other end. I was interested at the time in irrational, neurotic responses and so the heroine was put into unstable situations that I dreamt up because I was making a movie with a plot and there should be some action .... Many of the stars appear nude and all I can say is that because of the heat and the general, overall feeling of the film which is one of the usual desperation and explosive emotions, I couldn't see any other way of them playing it. The general tone of everything was ... "Why even bother to get dressed?"

The Door

1971 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A short film about a man trying to walk through a door.

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders

1971 • 23 min • United Kingdom

The UCS struggle is a campaign film supporting the fight to retain their jobs by the workers at Upper Clyde Shipyards who developed a new weapon for waging this fight – the occupation and the work-in. The film was screened at the time at meetings attended overall by 25,000 workers. It includes a speech by Jimmy Reid.

The Queen of Six

1971 • 1 min

The Queen of Six is a stop-motion animated short produced for Sesame Street by Jim Henson. Similar to "The King of Eight," the short focuses on the domain of the Queen of 6, wherein everything exists in denominations of 6.

Honeymoon Hotel

1971 • 4 min

A tour of the facilities and interviews with owners and guests at the titular establishment, which includes the obligatory heart shaped tub.

Accident

1971 • 20 min • Poland

A man goes through his solitary morning routine, then has an accident.

Woman's Place & Dance

1971 • 20 min • United States of America

Filmed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, "Woman's Place & Dance" features a group of young women and men running around and enjoying themselves on the grass outside. Among their activities are jumping rope, posing in different positions, and wearing colorful masks, but the film is primarily concerned with capturing the sense of free play and communal joy among the people. JoAnn Elam herself is a participant and can be identified by her dark green t-shirt and keys around her neck. Other, unidentified people can be seen holding cameras, but it's not always clear if their footage has been included in this film. Elam attended Antioch and lived in Yellow Springs until moving to Chicago in 1972.

Llanito

1971 • 52 min • United States of America

Llanito is the first of Lyon’s trio of films shot in and around Bernalillo, New Mexico, and it is also the screen debut of Willie Jaramillo. The twelve-year-old boy acts as a guiding force for Lyon and his audience, reading out the names on gravestones and relating the stories of the people buried there. He is the focal point of a group of mostly young men with whom Lyon would remain friends and continue to document for the next several decades. The film meanders through the town and among its inhabitants, passing between groups of people at times with the keen instinct of a desert eagle and at others in a drunken stupor, stumbling from one scene into the next with the visceral and irrational inevitability of a gravitational pull.

Bexiga, Ano Zero

1971 • 11 min • Brazil

A brief look at the traditional Bexiga, am important neighborhood in the early 20th century with the massive arrival of Italian immigrants who felt at home while developing their businesses and generating a great economy to São Paulo. But in the second half of the century the families of means left the place; others were evicted due to a government crisis...and then with plenty of empty houses and spaces Bexiga became a spot for home invasions from poor families who were living under the streets.

Plod

1971 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Based on Roger McGough's PC Plod poems, a series of quick comic sketches performed by The Scaffold.

Big Ware

1971 • 42 min

A poetic portrait of George Curtis, the last traditional country potter in Littlethorpe Potteries, Ripon.

Watch

1971 • 10 min

Acconci's face is seen in close-up. His eyes trace, in real time, the movement of the hands of an off-screen clock.

Henri Langlois : élaboration du musée du cinéma

1971 • 13 min • France

Unfinished documentary portrait. During 1971, Henri Langlois was spending his life at the Cinémathèque at the Palais de Chaillot and devoting himself entirely to the development of his museum without ever sparing himself. He needs to touch, place, nail, shape each corner himself, imagining each new arrangement. The smallest detail counts, the smallest fold of costume. He can spend hours adjusting a jacket, and fatigue sometimes surprises him around a staircase ...

Drug Use

1971 • 48 min • Netherlands

One girl and three boys tell their story. The drugs did great harm to the users. The girl is suffering from a disease caused by the LSD, an opium-user got into prison and a speed-user was treated several times in a clinic. The fourth is still on opium and speed. The film was made for several youth-centers in Rotterdam.

The Liberation of Griffith Park, or A Gay Time Was Had By All

1971 • 12 min • United States of America

A twist on the hippie movement’s spirited outdoor gatherings, Los Angeles’ first “Gay-In”s took place in Griffith Park in the early 1970s. This short is a rare document of both the visions of revelry and bypassing voices of dissent as gays and lesbians first began to publicly celebrate their identities.

Enemies

1971 • 47 min • United States of America

A humble and long-suffering New York waiter finally turns the tables on a regular, insufferable customer who delights in pestering him about the service. Based on the playwright’s personal experiences as a waiter at a resort in the Catskill Mountains.

Look Like a Winner: Military Etiquette and Grooming

1971 • 16 min • United States of America

Explains the important points of good grooming. Covers cleanliness, health habits, hair styling, cosmetics, and tailoring.