All Films - Short Movie Database

The Time of Silence

1970 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

In Slavonia in the 1970ies it was still common practice to send old people to a decrepit house, usually on the edge of a forest, where they'd be left waiting for death. This is a document about one such wait for death, of an 86-year-old farmer Antun Babić from the Slavonian village Babina Greda.

Cooks And Chefs

1970 • 7 min

A brief glimpse at some of the many types of cooks and chefs to be found in the food service industry.

One Year

1970 • 38 min • United States of America

One Year (1970) is a series of forty-nine rolls of 16mm film, nearly all of them unedited except in the camera, and all of them silent. The flares at the beginnings and ends of the rolls are not eliminated and, as a result, become a form of visual punctuation. The rolls are arranged so that, as title implies, we move gradually through an entire year, from winter to winter. The most interesting aspect of the overall organization, however, involves the fact that the first quarter of One Year (1970) is very different from the final three-quarters: this change reflects a fundamental alteration in Huot's approach to film.

Do Animals Think?

1970 • 57 min • Soviet Union

Humans and animals are a living chain of nature. To understand on what basis the human mind arose, where are its roots, what was from the beginning? We often look for the key to understanding animals in the wrong place, among the motives of human actions, and we make mistakes.

Syzygy

1970 • 16 min

Syzygy an eleven-minute silent, black and white film, shot on 35mm (later transferred to 16mm) made in collaboration with the animator Ram Mohan has been located and digitized. It is an abstract work, inspired by Paul Klee’s pedagogical diagrams, for which Padamsee developed his own mathematical pattern, and produced 1000 drawings on transparent cell animation sheets. Each drawing composed of numbers, alphabets, abstract geometric shapes, dots, dashes, was based on a differing configuration generated by his own devised code. Syzygy is a remarkably complex work that Adajania associates with the 1960’s experiments of John Cage. When she queried Padamsee about this connection, he acknowledged that he was reading Cage’s writings at the time, and was acquainted with the work of Iannis Xenakis.

La Source de la Loire

1970 • 3 min • France

For La Source de la Loire, I was in Paris, looking for a job... All the time, the word source followed me (it turns out that my grandparents lived near the source of the Loire.) The word source escapes the world, it gives without taking anything. Suddenly the autumn, it was necessary to shoot, but it was not for me, it had to become a necessity, one has to be wary because that is not what is in the film.

Your Astronauts

1970 • 8 min • United States of America

On August 13, 1969 thousands of Chicagolandians flocked to downtown Chicago to get a glimpse of the first humans on the Moon (Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, Jr.). Chicago Filmmaker Tom Palazzolo captures the Chicago Apollo 11 Parade with wit and charm, highlighting the hoards of suburbanites who made the journey into the city.

When Not Even a Bird Can Land on a Roof

1970 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary about young earthquake victims in Banja Luka.

The Wonderful March

1970 • 16 min • Poland

A story about a small drummer in a great army.

This is Parris Island

1970 • 32 min • United States of America

Marine propaganda.

The Battle of The Bulge

1970 • 54 min

The scenes of this film were shot under actual battle conditions by service and newsreel cameramen attached to American, British, French, Russian, and enemy forces. (Amazon Prime)

Censored

1970 • 7 min • Turkey

A cameraman chases a white rabbit and comes upon police brutality. Recording it and screening the footage will result in immediate censorship. Is this the end?

Utah Sequences

1970 • 9 min

The film explores the environment—manmade and natural—at Rozel Point on the north arm of Great Salt Lake. The film captures wood cabins, an amphibious vehicle, and remnants of oil drilling that have largely disappeared from the site today, but the tar seeps and salt-encrusted pelicans so present in this film remain a constant at the site.

Hinterland Who's Who: Cougar

1970 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the cougar.

The Art of the Marbler

1970 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A film produced for the 1970 Society of Archivists' Conference, and featuring the craft of making marble paper, by the Cambridgeshire firm, Douglas Cockerell & Son.

Puppet Show

1970 • 9 min

In 1970, the Yale student film collective May 1st Media made two 16mm works supporting the Black Panther Party’s New Haven chapter to help spread the word of their community-based activities. Puppet Show is a charming curiosity that sees the story of Panther Lonnie McLucas, who was convicted of murder in 1969, being performed for neighborhood children at the Party’s local headquarters.

Duty First

1970 • 1 min • Belgium

A race towards the other, with its misunderstandings, for the time a record is playing...

Mya - la mère

1970 • 7 min

A short film about two mothers from Niger and how they care for their children.

Moving Day

1970 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This is a story about how a family with many children moves into a new apartment in a newly constructed apartment building. The film “Moving Day” won a Silver Dragon Award at the 7th Krakow Film Festival. The jury’s decision stated: “For the warm and soulful relationship between the director and subjects of the film, expressed in a laconic form.”