All Films

Monserrate

1970 • 6 min • Colombia

A visit to the Monserrate church in Bogota

Mother Goose's Birthday Party

1970 • 4 min

Ronald McDonald, Merlin the Magician and Stinky the Skunk host a birthday party for Mother Goose. Ronald shows the party guests how to make a party hat. They sing Happy Birthday and blow out the candles on the cake, then Santa's Enchanted Village (1964) begins.

Bowl, Garden, Theatre, Marble Game

1970 • 7 min • United States of America

An animated short consisting of 4 segments: bowl, garden, theatre, marble game. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Harvard Film Archive in 2015.

The Hornsey Film

1970 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A student revolt as re-lived by the students themselves, The Hornsey Film reconstructs the arguments and succession of events that led to the occupation of Hornsey College of Art between May and July 1968. Over six weeks, the publication and distribution of more than seventy documents sparked a debate about art education beyond the confines of the college.

Base Tranquility

1970 • 7 min

"This film, done in the fine tradition of hand-painted images and sound, deals with Western man's fetish for technology." —Keith Lock & Jim Anderson

Getting It Straight in Notting Hill Gate

1970 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Life in Notting Hill Gate, concentrating on key problems like housing, welfare and drugs, and featuring interviews with local personalities.

Roadfilm

1970 • 2 min • United States of America

A spectacularly silly collage combo of old-cartoon-loop, colored light display and superimposed B-roll-- Why not do it in the road?

Gale Is Dead

1970 • 49 min

Gale Parsons was loving, intelligent and – according to everyone who knew her – had much to offer; everything to live for. But, aged just 19 and a drug addict, she was found dead in the basement of a derelict house in Chelsea. One of the first documentaries to draw attention to young homeless and drug addicted people, Gale Is Dead was nominated for a BAFTA in 1971.

Play 6

1970 • 6 min • Switzerland

L'Enfant apprend sa langue

1970 • 28 min

Debate about the natural process of acquiriing a language for the child.

Abu Rayhan Biruni

1970 • 12 min • Iran

Documentry of Abu Rayhan Biruni (973-ca. 1050) the Great Persian Scientist.

Gasoline

1970 • 13 min

La Linguistique et l'Enseignement du français

1970 • 30 min

Round table on the teaching of secondary school.

I Just Don't Dig Him

1970 • 12 min

The generation gap illustrated when father and son learn about each other and their selves during a crisis.

Conversion

1970 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

A 8mm experimental short.

Eine Volksschulklasse der Zwanziger Jahre

1970 • 45 min • Germany

Decades after a 1920s class photo captured their strict teacher and fifty hopeful boys, filmmaker Georg Friedel tracks down surviving classmates born in 1919/20. Through interviews and archival school artifacts, they recall childhood in vanished city streets, revealing a bygone era of “alley boys.”

Tales of the Supernatural

1970 • 26 min

Shot before the term “urban legend” was used, Tales of the Supernatural analyzes the ways in which horror stories ( or “ghost legends” ) are transmitted, the functions of such stories for the members of a group of American teenagers being filmed, and the relationship between transmission and function in the telling of the tales.

Untitled [W 8TH Street Heading West]

1970 • 3 min • United States of America

Lowell Bodger takes a stroll down W 8th street. Shot in 16mm color in the 1970s.

The New Pork: An Exciting Taste Treat

1970 • 20 min

Donna Jenkins, a female food editor, types up new slogans for pork when she isn't busy having pork-related supermarket meat-counter fantasies! Garish tablecloths, and dozens of pork dishes lovingly prepared (we assume) by Donna. Who is this enigmatic and mysterious woman with a pork fetish? Only the winning bidder will know. Pork kabobs, people! Nice jazzy piano soundtrack!

Iranian Cinema: from Constitutionalism to Sepanta

1970 • 45 min • Iran

Iranian Cinema from Constitutionalism to Sepanta is a documentary film directed and written by Mohammad Tahaminejad, a contemporary Iranian historian, critic and documentary filmmaker. This film tells the story of the arrival of "film" in Iran and the formation of "cinema" from the constitutional period to the filmmaking of Abdolhossein Spanta in India.

The Schizophrenia of Working For War

1970 • 32 min

This film portrays the dilemma of engineers who, although opposed to the war in Vietnam, were weapon-makers, employed at some of the most prestigious California institutions, specializing in war-materials production. The film presents their stories. The men play themselves. The analysis distinguishes three types of response to the dilemma: the rationalizer, the drop-out and the organizer. This film is not just about weaponmakers. It is about the dilemma of anyone who finds himself opposed to the system he lives in and works for.

Camp

1970 • 44 min • Japan

The title is a phonetical arrangement in kanji Chinese characters of camp, a concept synonymous with Michio Okabe. Okabe radically explores his distinct, Japanese camp aesthetic in the enclosed space of the film world. As written in the kanji, “precious night, wealth of dreams” (貴い夜、夢の富), inhabitants of the night world such as butoh dancer, gay character, night watch, violinist, masseuse, yakitori shop, vampire, dog, and cat, appear one after another and unfold a disastrous but beautiful soirée.

Essai à la mille

1970 • 7 min • Canada

This is a work share in the impressive filmography of Jean-Claude Labrecque! Crowned a Canadian Film Award (the ancestors of the Genii) Test the miles is almost unrivaled in the history of Quebec cinema. Hallucinated poem to music by Pierre Henry and the text of the Apocalypse of St. John, the film has mystical accents and has an undeniable fascination. We knew Labrecque esthete for 60 cycles, made in 1965, following formal while using a lens with a very long focal length (1000 mm) to film the sun and heat effects on landscapes. Product independently test the thousand has rarely been screened in recent years. Pleased to make it known to our readers is even greater.

Beautiful Days

1970 • 10 min • Japan