All Films

Hello! I Hear You!

1971 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The history of the creation of means of communication familiar to humans.

Now

1971 • 7 min • Denmark

A cinematic confrontation between old people, who are wandering around and are lost, and the youth, who are in a hurry to move on. (DFI)

Sagan om ringen

1971 • 28 min • Sweden

Sagan om ringen is a 1971 Swedish live action television film in two parts, adapting the first part of The Fellowship of the Ring. The film was inspired by the progressive rock album of the same name, by Bo Hansson (in turn inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings).

Anxious Automation

1971 • 4 min

Soundtrack by Philip Glass

Alfons Karásek v lázních

1971 • 37 min • Czechoslovakia

Albrecht Dürer 1471 - 1528

1971 • 14 min • East Germany, Germany

Documentary about Albrecht Dürer to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth. The film presents a panorama of the German Renaissance, in which Dürer's life and work are integrated in the context of the development of science and technology, the apocalypse of the Peasants' War and the dawn of the modern era.

Synchromy

1971 • 7 min • Canada

The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The images are an artistic rendering of this soundtrack.

The Carpenters: Live at the BBC

1971 • 35 min

The Carpenters' debut BBC concert, recorded on their first British tour in September 1971. They perform hits including Close to You, Superstar and We've Only Just Begun, together with the odd Beatles tune and a Bacharach/David medley. Karen's drumming and Richard's keyboards get instrumental support from their five-piece touring band and a 26-piece orchestra conducted by Johnny Pearson.

Croakus Pocus

1971 • 6 min • United States of America

After waiting 400 years for a first kiss, the witch gets impatient and decides to make a brew that will make her attractive. She needs a hair of a frog to complete her brew, so Toro and Pancho is in the chase to avoid being caught by the witch.

Uschi Digart: Girl Snatcher

1971 • 10 min • United States of America

Ms. Big Boob Uschi sending a couple of boobs out to snag some girls to shag. 10 minutes later our snatched girls turn the tables (lost in editing) leaving Uschi and pals in a bind.

The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971

1971 • 25 min

One of the least-known Monty Python rarities is “The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch of 1971,” a short advertising film that was made for the Birds Eye company’s internal use.

Jaunpuri

1971 • 8 min

Director Michael Mann's first short film, developed from his footage of the 1968 Paris student revolt for the documentary Insurrection which aired on NBC's First Tuesday news program. Only two prints of this film exist; director Michael Mann owns one and the other is in the AFI, but, at the request of Mann, is not available for viewing.

Im Märzen die Bäuerin

1971 • 14 min • East Germany

Documentary focuses on women farmers from the village of Worin. Even on International Women's Day, March 8, these women do not want to hand over responsibility for their animals to the men. Everyday observations are explored in depth in conversations with the LPG chairman Bernhard Grönert.

Sunday Painting

1971 • 45 min

Eva is a single freelance painter. She is in love with a married man. She pretends that she never waits for him, and if he suddenly turns up she acts as if she is surprised. In reality the unresolved relationship is making her so depressed that her work is the only thing that is saving her. In an attempt to break her addiction she enters into a relationship with another man. But the balance she is looking for eludes her, as now she has to choose between the two. But Eva can't: she wants to have an entire life, not part of one. In the form of a sort of filmic diary, Eva now attempts to sort out the puzzle, which is her life.

Handicapped Future

1971 • 43 min • Germany

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

The First Christmas Tree

1971 • 14 min • United States of America

A toymaker and the first Christmas tree

Inspiration

1971 • 29 min • Soviet Union

A film-portrait about the work of the ballet dancer of the Vanemuine Theater, Ülo Vilimaa.

Herb Trimpe, We Love You!

1971 • 25 min

Student documentary about Marvel Comics artist Herb Trimpe.

Hijack

1971 • 30 min

The fictional trial of two aeroplane hijackers, exploring their political motivation and whether hijacking a passenger plane can be justified.

The Air My Enemy

1971 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about contamination of the air and other forms of pollution, costing Britain £400 million a year, which are countered by smoke elimination programmes and the use of natural gas, fuel research and other measures.

For Women, Chapter 1

1971 • 27 min • Germany

Saleswomen in a supermarket discover that they are paid less than their male colleagues who do the same work. They decide to take action. The band Ton Steine Scherben sings along that “Everything changes if you change it / But you can't win as long as you're alone!” With a lay cast, the film fulfils the demand for solidarity that it preaches – “this film was made by saleswomen and housewives. They came up with the story and acted themselves. The film students helped them”

Once ... Agadir

1971 • 27 min • Canada

This short-length documentary takes us to Agadir, a city in Morocco that was struck by an earthquake in 1960. The film, made by an expatriate Moroccan who lost family and friends in the disaster, is a memorial to that tragedy and to the past he left behind when he came to North America. Partly allegorical, it employs varying techniques to offset reality from fantasy sequences.

The Tattooed Man

1971 • 35 min • United States of America

Children of the water world drift the ocean in an empty crystal ball, swim in beaded beds of mist, and spawn in pools of murder to see a lantern sunk in the pit of an empty space.

Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center

1971 • 60 min • United States of America

Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center is a 1971 concert featuring Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, their second out of three specials after Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall and before Julie & Carol: Together Again. Staged in the Philharmonic Hall, the special was produced by Joe Hamilton, and written by Bob Ellison, Marty Farrell, and Mitzi Welch, who reused the template from the first show. The special was broadcast on CBS on December 7, 1971.