All Films

Elton John: Mr. Superfunk

1971 • 26 min

Short documentary originally featured on Aquarius containing interviews, concert footage, and general information about Elton John and his career up to 1971. Featuring Elton John working on an early version of Tiny Dancer before it had been recorded for his then upcoming album.

The American West of John Ford

1971 • 52 min • United States of America

A documentary encapsulating the career and Western films of director 'John Ford' , including clips from his work and interviews with his colleagues.

Stevenage

1971 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Short documentary celebration of Britain's first New Town

Evelyn

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. Professing love for both men creates paranoia in The Man who invents a fourth person - a mistress, Evelyn.

Kvevri

1971 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Gogia brings home a kvevri (georgian wine vessel) made in Imereti in Kakheti . Kvevri brought from a distance with a sledgehammer breaks carelessly. Gogia takes craftsman Abesalom home, who repairs the kvevri, but he himself will get stuck inside of it .

A Picture For Harold's Room

1971 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia, United States of America

With his purple crayon, Harold draws a picture for his room - and then becomes part of it.

One Day in Irvine

1971 • 21 min • United Kingdom

A Canadian visits the Scottish town of Irvine.

Still Light

1971 • 25 min • Switzerland, Greece

Filmed on Hydra, the work studies a young man’s face across shifting light and landscape, framed through customized masks and filters. The constant visage, set against iconic surroundings, evokes a Renaissance portrait while reflecting on binaries of youth and age, creation and critique, image and text.

Western History

1971 • 8 min

A thumbnail History of the Western World, all centered around the basketball court. - Canyon Cinema

Hansel and Gretel

1971 • 25 min • Switzerland

Hansel and Gretel is a Swiss short fairy tale movie by Rudolf Jugert from 1971. It is based on Grimm’s fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 8 - The Mysterious Cat Beauty Mansion

1971 • 60 min • Japan

Eighth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Detective Waiting

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.

A Fly in the Pink

1971 • 6 min • United States of America

A scientifically-enhanced fruit fly attacks the Pink Panther's apples, and he decides to get revenge.

The Shadow of a City

1971 • 32 min • Finland

The degenerate alcoholics, the men and women of the beaches, themselves speak openly about their lives and problems. Through their stories, a picture emerges of those on the periphery of society who succumbed to alcohol because of war or difficult living conditions. They are aware of their own State; reason is still there, but the Will is lacking. The film is a cry for help on behalf of humans, it is a dispassionate and honest description of the position of degenerate alcoholics in Finnish society in the early 1970s.

Betcher!

1971 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Designed to promote the National Cycling Proficiency Scheme: an N.C.P.S. student competes with another boy in a private cycling competition, organised and judged by pop singer, Peter Noone.

Secret Rites

1971 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Pseudo-documentary about black magic and the study of witchcraft with a rare appearance by real-life occultist Alex Sanders.

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story

1971 • 25 min • United States of America

Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power behind the president. This short was produced as a television special for PBS in 1971 and was scheduled to air in February 1972, but it was pulled from the schedule shortly before its airdate as PBS officials reportedly feared it might adversely affect their government funding. The special never aired, but it can now be viewed in The Paley Center for Media and has been widely bootlegged online.

The Legend of Robin Hood

1971 • 48 min • Australia

In 1194 England, it is a time of rebellion as King Richard is away fighting in the Crusades, and his evil brother Prince John has employed the malicious Sheriff of Nottingham to take advantage of the people. It is up to Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Little John, Will Scarlett, and Friar Tuck, as they take on the scheming Sheriff in their defense of the poor and powerless.

Pink Tuba-Dore

1971 • 6 min • United States of America

In the Alps, The Pink Panther's sleep is disturbed by a tuba player and his howling dog, and he decides to stop it.

Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple

1971 • 20 min • Japan

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation

1971 • 60 min • Japan

Eleventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Compañero Presidente

1971 • 48 min • Chile

On January 4, 1971, an extensive dialogue takes place between the president of Chile Salvador Allende and the French intellectual Regis Debray, a discussion about the Chilean process towards the installation of a socialist government. Filmed by a team from Chilefilms, a state-owned company dedicated to the production of audiovisual works, it is a unique testimony to Allende's thinking in the first year of his government.

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

1971 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Mary Bunting is sitting alone when to her surprise and delight a rabbit six foot tall - elegantly dressed in frock coat and fancy waistcoat - appears. As he is a magic rabbit, he can be seen only by Mary, which naturally creates great confusion and misunderstanding.

Kinkón

1971 • 7 min • Spain

Kinkón (1971), a silent adaptation of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1933 classic, King Kong. Zulueta re-filmed a television broadcast of the original, and through creative subtraction and manipulation of camera speed, condensed the original’s feature length to an intensified seven minutes. The cathode-ray flicker and flattening that results from the re-filming defamiliarises the original, but its classical continuity mode of address continues to operate on the viewer, and the increase in velocity makes mesmerisingly urgent the dramatic plot of the original. —Senses of Cinema