All Films

Babar Comes to America

1971 • 30 min • United States of America

The Great Canadian Comic Books!

1971 • 24 min • Canada

Film accompanying the book of the same name by Nelvana Enterprises founders Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, with partner Clive Smith as designer and illustrator. It looks at the "Canadian Whites" series of comic books made during World War II, with some focus on Nelvana of the Northern Lights, the genre's first superheroine, and Johnny Canuck. It was accompanied by a two-year travelling tour of the art, the National Gallery of Canada's "Comic Art Traditions in Canada, 1941–45". This is Nelvana Enterprises' first film.

The Massacre of Glencoe

1971 • 58 min • United Kingdom

The true story of the events leading up to the infamous massacre of the Macdonalds by the Campbells in February of 1692.

O Pomněnce

1971 • 44 min • Czechoslovakia

A fairy tale about a little girl so tiny that she could almost be hidden in the palm of your hand. But you wouldn't believe what she could do! A little girl suddenly appeared in a cottage, bringing joy and happiness with her. The mother was sad when the prince appeared and took Forget-me-not to his castle...

Go Go Kamen Rider

1971 • 24 min • Japan

The Shocker Organization sends two of its Inhumanoids to destroy an atomic plant, but their plan is foiled by an invisible barrier that surrounds the complex. Because of this, they abduct a top soccer player and convert him into Tokageron, a lizard Inhumanoid capable of kicking a 5 kg bomb to destroy the plant's barrier. Kamen Rider must once again combat the Shocker and prevent them from destroying the atomic plant.

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 12 - The Mystery of the Ever-Changing Tamamushi Mansion!

1971 • 60 min • Japan

Twelfth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

King Thrushbeard

1971 • 27 min • Germany, Switzerland

Paper Roses

1971 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.

Brake Fluid

1971 • 51 min • Australia

This self-funded verité comedy starring John Duigan is something of a swan song for the “Carlton ripple” and reflects the movement’s characteristic vacillation between intensely local and distantly international influences.

The Trapped Ones

1971 • 46 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama made in Yugoslavia.

Mateo Falcone

1971 • 25 min • Poland

After his parents go away in the mountains, young Fortunato Falcone decides to shelter a fugitive for a price of a silver coin.

Pal

1971 • 55 min

Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.

Return of Ultraman

1971 • 48 min • Japan

Episodes 5 and 6 of Return of Ultraman show, screened at Toho Champion Festival.

Repairman

1971 • 31 min • Hungary

An intelligence agent blackmails the author he is spying on to write the government surveillance reports about himself, as he hates writing.

A Christmas Carol

1971 • 25 min • United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb

1971 • 60 min • Japan

Fourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô

1971 • 47 min • Japan

Second film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Frida Kahlo

1971 • 14 min • Mexico

Short documentary on Frida Kahlo's life, illness, art, love and death.

Competition

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly been having an affair with the wife.

The Rooster's Beak

1971 • 53 min • Yugoslavia

The story of the Partisan, understated idealists… who happily lives in post-war society. The problem arises when his comrades Sylvia wants to declare war memoirs where your credit stands out in an attack on a particularly important strategic enemy position called “The Rooster’s Beak”.

Diana!

1971 • 60 min • United States of America

Diana! is American singer Diana Ross' first solo TV special, which aired on ABC on April 18, 1971. The program was choreographed by David Winters of West Side Story fame, who at that time choreographed all of Ross' stage and TV shows. The special also featured appearances by Danny Thomas and Bill Cosby, plus performances by The Jackson 5, and also included Jackson 5 lead singer Michael Jackson's solo debut.

Sweet Toronto

1971 • 51 min • United States of America

Sweet Toronto is a documentary by D.A. Pennebaker of the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, a one day festival held September 13, 1969 at Varsity Stadium on the campus of the University of Toronto and attended by some 20,000 persons. John Lennon played as part of the Plastic Ono Band, whose members also included Yoko Ono, Klaus Voorman, Alan White, and Eric Clapton. The video also features a selection of other acts: Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Bo Diddley.

Öpme Öldür

1971 • 60 min • Turkey

Turkish Crime Thriller

Eskimo

1971 • 7 min • United States of America

8mm/Super 8 early silent short films by the Chiodo Brothers, inspired by Ray Harryhausen, included on the 4K remastered Arrow Video Blu-ray of ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’