All Films

Pull!

1970 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

The third film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy. Where the machine could not go through ... Collision between stone and man on the section of the Belgrade-Bar railway.

Eleven Different Horses

1970 • 5 min • United States of America

Made from some footage I shot on a family vacation way back in 1949. It features my brother Doug and a horse whose name I've forgotten. A circular cybernetic study film. (Standish Lawder)

Corrosion

1970 • 8 min

With beads of hail resembling the shape of the mold grown brains.

Woo Who? May Wilson

1970 • 33 min • United States of America

A portrait of artist May Wilson, former “wife-mother-housekeeper-cook” and a grandmother who, at age 60 after the break-up of her 40-year marriage, moves to New York City and discovers an independent life of her own for the first time.

Narcotic Deaths

1970 • 48 min

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the types of narcotic deaths and drugs encountered by Dr. Milton Helpern in his post as Chief Medical Examiner for New York City and to describe internal and external body changes resulting from narcotism. This objective is achieved with the use of photographs of overdose victims and the equipment found and used by addicts. According to this presentation narcotic addiction which has been a problem for many years has increased markedly within the last twenty years. The use of amphetamines and marijuana is discussed briefly and the equipment used by addicts is described and illustrated. Dr. Helpern then shows photographs of overdose victims and describes the circumstances under which the body was found.

O Engenho

1970 • 9 min • Brazil

The process of production of rapadura in the Brazilian state of Ceará.

Doll House

1970 • 2 min

"Doll House" is a Sesame Street song about the number 2. The song features vocals by Juli Christman, and is accompanied with a live-action film by Jim Henson about two girls (played by Sumiko Kimura and Alison von Brock) playing with their doll house. Eventually, two cats get into the doll house and knock things over, much to the girls’ amusement.

How to Undress in Front of Your Man

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

After an evening out, a hippie attempts to get her man in the mood for love. But he’s just too tired. She proceeds to use all her sexiest moves (even showing him her “tunnel of love” and making her “fun zone” more attractive with good hygiene), hoping to awaken the beast. When all else fails, she resorts to stroking his giant cock. This finally gets his attention!

Deep Waters

1970 • 1 min • Hungary

A short dynamic animation about a man struggling not to drown.

Actions of Indication

1970 • 4 min • Switzerland

"Actions of Indication is an intermission film, which means it is a film for the intermissions in movie theaters. Get the message: FILM is caviar like BASKIN ROBBINS is ice cream." (HHK)

The Feast of the Gods on a Winter’s Night: Toyama’s Shimotsuki Festival

1970 • 37 min

The shimotsuki festival has been passed down over the centuries in the community of Shimoguri, located in Kamimura in Nagano Prefecture’s Shimoina District. The population once staged a revolt against the oppression of the Toyama clan who governed the region. Disease spread in the aftermath and was thought to be the work of the slain clan. The festival was initiated to clear their resentment. The masks of dead spirits dance amid clouds of steam from boiling water.

The Silent Sector

1970 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The filmmaking debut by Oleksandr Koval, which was filmed as a graduation work at the "Ukrkinokhronika" studio on the invitation of its director Viktor Shkurin. Story about the crew of Afanasiy Nikitin rescue ship in the Black Sea near Odesa. The film conveys the true poetics of the sea, the love for which arose in the filmmaker during his numerous internships at various studios in the USSR, including the ones located in Magadan.

Warm in the Bud

1970 • 57 min

Independently (and very inexpensively) produced, Warm in the Bud is an over-ambitious but essentially worthwhile character study. Adapted by producer/director Rudolph Caringi from the Franz Wedekind play Spring's Awakening, the film stars Robert Mont as Moritz and Dean Stricklin as Melchior, two sensitive youths growing up in the insensitive 19th century. Upon approaching manhood, Moritz and Melchior come to grips with the inevitable in highly unorthodox fashion. As a result, one dies prematurely, while the other retreats into himself.

Ski de fond

1970 • 6 min

A short documentary on the charms of cross-country skiing. Beyond the formal beauty of the images, there floats a certain nostalgia for unknown landscapes. Something rare that pushes the neophyte to want to follow these free men, on the white paths, on exhilarating walks, taking the time to look at the landscape. Film without words.

Beyond the Wall

1970 • 50 min

Ignorant of democracy but hungry for the West they cannot visit, the 17 million East Germans are a force that could decide the fate of Russia's European Empire. For most of the past decade they have been isolated by the Berlin Wall and a fortified border over 600 miles (965 km) long. Cold War attitudes have been slowest to melt in East Germany but this summer for the first time the German Democratic Republic opened its borders for three weeks to let in a BBC film crew. This is the first full-length report by a British television team on the life of the Germans who live 'Beyond the Wall.'

This Is Ham Radio

1970 • 16 min • United States of America

A short film designed to introduce the youth of America to the joys of Amateur Radio.

Take Care France

1970 • 59 min • Cote D'Ivoire, France

The emotional conflict of Africans in Paris.

Porch Glider

1970 • 22 min • United States of America

A cyclical film, without sound, that goes from day to night and back again. First, from the porch glider, daytime movement is seen--children running and bicycles and cars going by. The nighttime scene is a long poetic and dream-like look at adolescent lovemaking.

You Hide Me

1970 • 16 min • Ghana, United Kingdom

Dramatisation of a visit to the British Museum by two Africans who discover African art, specifically Benin bronzes, hidden in the basement.

Zoos of the World

1970 • 50 min

Travel around the globe to some of the best zoos, which are striving to fill a new role that relates directly to environmental education.

Necrology

1970 • 12 min • United States of America

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into the empty space, in the 5:00 PM tiredness and mechanical impersonality, like faces from the grave.

Gay and Proud

1970 • 12 min • United States of America

1970 short documentary covering the first New York gay pride parade celebrating one year after Stonewall.

Composition

1970 • 27 min • Soviet Union

A story about the unity of children's imagination with the perception of the unique beauty of the surrounding nature...

Mayday

1970 • 22 min

In the spring of 1970, thousands of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of suspected FBI informant Alex Rackley. Led by radical luminaries Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden, the demonstrators converged on the New Haven Green to vent their anger and shut Yale down. Yale President Kingman Brewster commissioned a small group of Yale students to document the demonstrations, resulting in this 22-minute black-and-white film.