All Films

Encounters in Yakutia

1970 • 24 min • Soviet Union

Taking the form of a travel diary of a television journalist, this documentary tells about the life and work of the people of Yakutia: pilots, artists, drivers, and reindeer herders.

The Class 86 Locomotive

1970 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Training film for drivers on the introduction of the new locomotive.

Ants in the Pantry

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

The Bongo Pest Control Agency gets a call for an ant problem, so the Aardvark intercedes to take care of the call himself.

Vitka

1970 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Children playing on the roadway led to an accident.

The Search

1970 • 36 min • Denmark

The Search is the ultimate happening film created by a group of ABCinema members during a camp on the Juttish heath. The film consists of loosely composed sequences. The landscape is the setting for a series of peculiar occurrences in which individual members were free to realize personal ideas, fantasies and themes: a man runs across the heath, shouting, a Molotov cocktail flares on a beach, a man repeatedly falls over, an angel-like woman makes a solitary procession, a burning pine, a man breaking a tree with a shovel, etc.

Status Symbol

1970 • 2 min • Switzerland

2 minutes experimental short film by Sebastian C. Schroeder

Funeral

1970 • 3 min • Hungary

A macabre view of a corpse who suddenly sits up and spoils the ritual display of grief - but does he get by with it?

Say Goodnight to Your Grandma

1970 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Colin Welland's play about a wife, her mother, her mother-in-law and conflict.

Susan After the Sugar Harvest

1970 • 27 min • United States of America

The story of a 21-year-old girl who was disillusioned with life until she went to Cuba to help with the sugar harvest and found a purpose in life in committing herself to the struggle against social injustice.

Mosori Monika

1970 • 20 min

Filmed at Mission San Francisco de Guayo on the Orinoco River Delta in Venezuela, in 1965. A Franciscan nun and an Indian woman describe the Indian way of life before and after the arrival of the mission 20 years prior to the making of the film; their words are translated to English voice-over. They discuss marriage ceremonies, fishing, gender roles in work distribution and family responsibilities, shamanism and death rituals. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation in 2011.

Serene Velocity

1970 • 23 min • United States of America

"Serene Velocity (1970) created a stunning percussive head-on motion by systemically shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens as it stared down the center of an empty institutional hallway – thus playing off the contradiction generated by the frames’ heightened flatness and the compositions’ severely overdetermined perspective. Without ever moving the camera, Gehr turned the fluorescent geometry of this literal Shock Corridor (in the then – new State University of N.Y at Binghamton) into a sort of piston-powered mandala. If Giotto had made action films it would be this." – J. Hoberman

Hallo, Hela!

1970 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A story about the adventures of a helicopter girl named Hela.

Where Do You Wish to Ride?

1970 • 8 min • Sweden

Painted pictures of castles, knights and flowers to a poem by Karl Vennberg.

Hommage à Meliérs

1970 • 4 min • Sweden

1970 short film by Håkan Dahlström.

Closed doors

1970 • 9 min • Romania

A young man flees from the authorities in May 1944 until he reaches a house where he can find some help.

The Story of Little John Bailey

1970 • 6 min • Netherlands

John Bailey carelessly ignite a fire in the forest but with his imagination and a little help from a new friend, he is able to put the blaze and win back the favours of the forest inhabitants.

Case Studies for Management No. 4: The Bother Breeder

1970 • 5 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Odd Ant Out

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

A grocery truck loses a shipment of chocolate-covered ants. The Aardvark and another green aardvark fight over a can of ants, which they can't seem to open.

Germ and Chemical Warfare

1970 • 30 min • United States of America

A documentary about the chemical and biological weapons developed and stored by the US.

Rimorso

1970 • 12 min

Short film about a car driving a corpse to a funeral.

Espectro Siete

1970 • 8 min

short Spanish experimental film

Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing

1970 • 28 min • Japan

A documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Sochaux June 11th 1968

1970 • 20 min • France

Witnesses tell of the day the police took over the Peugeot factories in Sochaux on strike for 22 days. Balance: two dead, one hundred and fifty wounded. The first film by Sochaux's Medvedkine group, this film recounts one of the most violent episodes of May 68: the murder of two Peugeot factory workers by a CRS brigade during clashes on June 11, 1968. The film was shown two years later, on June 11, 1970, in a cinema opposite the factory, on the day commemorating the death of the two workers.

Dangling Participle

1970 • 17 min • United States of America

Made entirely from old classroom instructional films, Dangling Participle offers a wealth of practical advice on contemporary sexual hang-ups and where they come from.