All Films

The Typists

1971 • 56 min • United States of America

Real-life couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star in this 1971 television adaptation of Murray Schisgal's moving play, in which married law student Paul Cunningham takes a job as a typist for an ad agency, where he meets lonely spinster Sylvia. Through a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, the story of their relationship and developing romance unfolds. Emmy Award winner Glenn Jordan directs this volume from the Broadway Theater Archive.

The Ken Campbell Roadshow

1971 • 43 min

The Ken Campbell Roadshow brings entertainment to the streets and pubs of Kirkby New Town.

Fahrenheim

1971 • 41 min

Werner Fahrenheim comes home from the war after a long period in captivity, only to realise that no one is there to welcome him, that the world he had left behind has since changed beyond recognition, and that his wife Inga did not wait for him.

No Title

1971 • 29 min • Yugoslavia

Goran Markovic's first movie, based on the short story of the same name by Boris Pilnyak. In the movie, a man is killed in the middle of nowhere, seemingly on someone's orders. After finishing the job, the killer returns to Belgrade, where he came from.

Growing Up

1971 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Freedom of expression and sexual liberation might have defined the 1960s but by 1971 the British education system was far from ready for Dr Cole's explicit series A New Approach to Sex Education. Made as a teaching aid for use in schools an universities, the Growing Up was unprecedented in its depictions of erect penises, un-simulated masturbation and intercourse to describe the development of the human body and sexuality to students.

Kama Sutra Rides Again

1971 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Oscar nominated animated short from 1972. An animated short from British comedian Bob Godfrey.

UFOs

1971 • 3 min • United States of America

Blasting off into cosmic visual abstraction, pioneering computer artist Lillian Schwartz’s UFOs is a kinetic tour-de-force whose innovative pixel pigmentation showcased advanced stereoscopic technology as art.

Forbidden Photos: Second Story (Can)

1971 • 25 min • Egypt

Forbidden Photos: Second Story (Can)

Beethoven - Symphony No. 7

1971 • 34 min

Recording of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan playing Beethoven's 7th Symphony.

Cilla in Scandinavia

1971 • 60 min

Cilla Black hosts a show specially recorded in Stockholm on Midsummer's Day and on film locations in Norway, Sweden and Finland. With guest stars Ringo Starr, Sven-Bertil Taube, Basil Brush, Hannu Mikkola and Marvin, Welch & Farrar.

The Cliff of Time

1971 • 26 min • Japan

A film adaptation of the second play from "The Man Who Turned Into A Stick" by Kōbō Abe himself.

Elton John in Stockholm

1971 • 29 min • Sweden

An historic Swedish television program featuring Elton John, Nigel Olsson & Dee Murray performing at Gröna Lund, Stockholm, Sweden in February 1971. Aired in English with Swedish subtitles.

Kalle Utter

1971 • 56 min • Sweden

Kalle Utter is more interested in student life's happy sides and less for examinations and exams. One summer he takes a work as an informer at a castle. A time the noble family will never forget.

A Breed of Men

1971 • 49 min

The story was inspired by the stay-down strikers in the 1930s who refused to leave the mines for three weeks. Ernie Bailey, one of the miners, relayed the story to director Karl Francis, but declined appearing in the film because HTV would not pay him on a scale comparable to Tom Jones. Mr. Bailey smoked to his dying day at the age of 99: always a staunch socialist.

And Then They Forgot God

1971 • 28 min

"And Then They Forgot God" is set in a dystopian future, one in which the environment has suffered (people carry around breathing gear) and people must navigate extremely bureaucratic and rigid rules and procedures. Food is only available through the government, and only to those holding a monthly-issued card. Joe Campanella plays a husband who finds himself in desperate straits when his ration card is rejected because it was in poor condition when received. Despite an official policy that no one in that society goes hungry, Campanella's character receives no help.

Brazil in Cannes

1971 • 10 min • Brazil

The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the transition from film to industrialized production. It is the meeting of producers, technicians, critics , celebrities in general, offering opportunities for greater knowledge and renewal of values

Teenagers Learn To Swim

1971 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Animated public information film. A Fairy Godmother grants a girl the man of her dreams – or is he? The girl’s thoughts are voiced by Carol Hawkins, and the voices of ‘Mike’, the fairy godmother, ‘Dave’ and the closing narration are all Peter Hawkins.

Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East

1971 • 24 min

Video of the famous performance released by both Zappa and Lennon

All Eat Each Other

1971 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

A time for sowing and a time for a marriage followed by everyday struggle and change of seasons. Chicken feed on the seeds of plowed fields, man eats chicked, life eats man... In front of a fixed eye the cycle of life evolves.

New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971

1971 • 51 min

With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Morton Subotnik, Phil Corner, Joe Jones, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Ben Patterson, Wolf Rosenberg In 1971 we produced, in association with West German Television, a documentation on New York’s musical avant-garde. It was broadcast only in Germany at the time. By 2010, after nearly 40 years, it seemed desirable to recycle the performances and interviews with the composers and to create a revealing look back to those years for English-speaking New Music fans. The film offers valuable insights into the nature and issues of advanced composition at the beginning of the 1970s.

Peter Paul and Mary: The Song Is Love

1971 • 59 min • United States of America

A behind the scenes look at popular folk music trio Peter, Paul & Mary. Accompanying the group on tour across the country, Hooper captures members Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers rehearsing and performing as well as appearing at civil rights and anti-war demonstrations.

This Body Is Mine

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Allen Meredith is a brilliant scientist but too mild-mannered to make an impact or fight for the money he needs. He has invented a process to exchange minds between bodies. His ambitious wife Ann persuades him to invite his boss, the domineering Jack Gregory, to their house for dinner. Once there, they drug him and Allen swaps bodies with Jack, then goes back to work to transfer millions into his account. But meanwhile Ann is finding the combination of Jack's masculine personality in Allen's body rather attractive and they begin making their own plans.

Flame of Persia

1971 • 54 min • Iran

A film documenting the exorbitant 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire, held in October 1971, organized by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and attended by leaders from around the world.

Conversations With a Working Man

1971 • 27 min

This film expresses John Pilger’s belief that working people are seldom allowed a place in an essentially bourgeois media on their own political terms. In 1971, John Pilger travelled to the West Yorkshire industrial town of Keighley. This documentary features 36-year-old Jack Walker, a dye house worker, and is intended to present the views of a rank-and-file trade unionist: his life, struggle and hopes.