All Films

The Incredible Art of Animation: A Living Art Form

1971 • 19 min • United States of America

Demonstrates various elements and techniques of an animated film. Shows how these elements such as the voice tracks, pictures, music, and sound effects can be mixed together to produce a musical motion picture.

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

1971 • 28 min

An introduction to Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist. A world poet-a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare.

Premium

1971 • 24 min

A man enjoys the salad days.

Electric Fairy

1971 • 6 min

Short film made on Bankside featuring, as the electric fairy, a "young man with curly blonde hair, a star on his forehead and stars on his tunic, headphones, jewels and carmine lips".

Cilali Ibo the Texas Conqueror

1971 • 56 min • Turkey

In 1959, a new comic actor, Feridun Karakaya starts a series with Cilali Ibo (Ibo, the Polished One) and becomes popular around the 1960s and 1970s. Cilalı ibo Teksas Fatihi (Cilali Ibo the Texas Conqueror) is a parody/pastiche of the Western genre, scripted by Osman F. Seden.

The First Nine Months Are the Hardest

1971 • 60 min

The First Nine Months are the Hardest a musical comedy produced by the legendary team of Bill Persky and Sam Denoff with music written by Ray Charles and staring the iconic Sonny and Cher with Dick Van Dyke.

The Dangerous Stranger

1971 • 10 min • United States of America

Presents vignettes explaining the dangers posed by child molesters. Shows various methods that molesters use to win over a child's confidence, how it is wise to be on guard and how to act should these situations ever arise. A 70's remake of a 50's Sid Davis short.

Let Our Voices Be Heard Too

1971 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

A loving portrait of a pirate radio stations, which is run by the rural population with plenty of passion and talent in the face of opposition from the authorities.

Colored Spade

1971 • 1 min • United States of America

Betye Saar’s film Colored Spade is an assemblage of derogatory images gradually replaced with depictions of African-American power and solidarity. The film explores Saar’s interest in deconstructing historical and political narratives through the use of symbolism within found imagery.

Freedom River

1971 • 6 min

Uplifting modern day parable about mankind getting along together. Narrated by Orson Welles. Animation directed by Sam Weiss.

Summer is Forever

1971 • 33 min

An.early short from Cedric Sundstrom

Just Love

1971 • 30 min

A drama following the romance between Ed, who has a reputation for treating girls badly, and Jenny, who comes to work in the factory canteen, and how they come to realise that they genuinely care for each other and fall in love.

The Specialist

1971 • 9 min • Canada, Yugoslavia

An amusingly drawn cartoon about a highly proficient lady bricklayer, graduate of Specialists' School, whose work takes her high up in the world, and her erstwhile friend, whose equally dedicated professionalism brings him lower. She builds towers of bricks while he tunnels down below ground. What develops in the story involves other unlikely characters, plausible enough in this cartoon context.

Us from Prague

1971 • 30 min • Yugoslavia

Students from the Prague Academy of Film (FAMU) talk about their life in Prague. Filmed in Prague in 1968, a few months before the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Pink Blue Plate

1971 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther gets a job working in a busy café beside a building site, and has trouble serving food to the construction workers.

The Pink Flea

1971 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther is attacked by a dog flea and tries to get rid of it.

Struggle in Italy

1971 • 60 min • France, Italy

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 5 - The Mystery of the Skull Wife

1971 • 60 min • Japan

Fifth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

1971 • 8 min • United States of America

The film features a conversation between Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, producer of THX 1138. They discuss Lucas' vision for the film, including his ideas about science fiction in general and in particular his concept of the "used future" which would famously feature in his film Star Wars. Intercut with this discussion is footage shot prior to the start of production of THX 1138 showing several of its actors having their heads shaved, a requirement for appearing in the film. In several cases the actors are shown being shaved in a public location. For example, Maggie McOmie is shaved outside the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, while Robert Duvall watches a sporting event as his hair is cut off. Another actor, Marshall Efron, who would later play an insane man in the film, cut off his own hair and was filmed doing so in a bathtub.

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 6 - The Woman's Grudge Spirit Boat

1971 • 60 min • Japan

Sixth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Les Cent livres : À la recherche du temps perdu

1971 • 60 min • France

An evocation, realistic and poetic at the same time, of Proust's work " in which he is locked up as in the room ". Halfway between the audiovisual adaptation and the portrait of the dandy and reclusive writer, all in black and white signed Claude Santelli, evoking the mystery, the intimate, and the fatality of existence.

Where the River Padma Flows

1971 • 21 min • India

The film brings to the screen the determination of the common man of Bangladesh to stand up to tyranny and win his priceless liberty back.

Benny's Bathtub

1971 • 41 min • Denmark

A boy explores the hidden depths of his bathtub in a grey world dominated by boring adults.

A Little Village Performance

1971 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

A showcase of performances in a Međimurje village Orahovica in which various local performers sing then-popular light melodies, dance folk dances, exchange jokes, and the ceremony is crowned by the selection of the local Miss 1971.