All Films

Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy

1970 • 10 min • France

In the aftermath of the arrest of Angela Davis, Jean Genet reads a text denouncing racist US policy, supporting the Black Panthers party and Angela Davis for a television show that will be completely censored.

Nattmagasinet

1970 • 42 min • Norway

The movie begins with a disenchanted poet who, having had his fill of the world, decides to hide out in a large department store. There are many floors, dusty nooks and crannies, and forgotten storerooms where he can secret himself. He believes he has found the peace and serenity he seeks--away from humankind--in order to write his poetry. To his initial horror, he finds he is not alone. There are Others who have also sought refuge in the dark places of the department store. He quickly finds himself at the mercy of this clandestine social underclass, for none may leave and risk exposing those who have spent years in the store. What quickly evolves is a chilling tale involving the poet and a young woman who had lost her way in the store while a mere child, and who has since spent her entire life as the downtrodden handmaid to the evil matriarch who rules her clan with an iron fist.

The Art of Lotte Reiniger

1970 • 17 min • United Kingdom

This short documentary looks at the animated art of Lotte Reiniger. We are taken through a demonstration by Lotte herself on the way she cut out, constructed and filmed a silhouette character. She also discusses how she developed the use of coloured gelatines for her backgrounds. To illustrate her output, the documentary includes extracts from several of her films including Papageno (1935), The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) and The Frog Prince.

Film Strips II

1970 • 13 min

When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in New York, which was a center of the former, and watched TV news of the latter often. These two films, Film Strips I and II, were taken from the scenes respectively, not as a documentary but as an inner report of mine, abstracted yet chaotic. (T.I.)

Blue Movie

1970 • 4 min

Blue Movie was made for the international Dome Show where it was projected down onto the muslin surface of David Rimmer's geodesic dome. The audience lay on the floor looking up at it, the inside of each eye finishing the globe. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Thaw the Frigid Bird

1970 • 59 min

Inter-office affairs take an interesting turn at the office Christmas party with 3 women and only 2 men available.

How Are You?

1970 • 14 min

Discusses the concept of "normal" behavior and mental health through the metaphor of a "swinger" and "squares." It highlights that individuals can exhibit a range of behaviors influenced by their emotions and societal standards. Mental health is described as the ability to confront and manage problems effectively, akin to physical health. The text also outlines various forms of mental illness, their symptoms, and the importance of understanding individual differences in behavior. It concludes with suggestions for maintaining mental health, such as confronting problems, adapting to change, and respecting others.

Bing Crosby: Cooling It

1970 • 60 min

Entertainment variety special with Bing and special guests Dean Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Flip Wilson.

Wild River: The Colorado

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

Take a relaxing trip from the headwaters of Rocky Mountain National Park to Mexico's Gulf of California as actor Joseph Campanella follows the Colorado River down its winding path. The classical sounds of music's greatest composers provides a soothing backdrop to the wondrous vistas and breathtaking landscapes, leaving the viewer both enlightened and calmed as the camera explores fast-moving rapids and serine stretches of natural wonder.

Auf der Oder

1970 • 29 min • East Germany, Germany

Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland. Icebreakers from both countries with experienced skippers join forces to make the international waterway between Frankfurt and Szczecin navigable again. Everyone works hard as a team and even a broken-down ship cannot stop them from achieving their goal. A look back at the winter of 1947 with its flooding shows what the freezing of the river and the subsequent thaw can do if the ice floes are not drained into the Baltic Sea via Lake Dammsch in good time. The skippers from both countries have known each other for years and trust each other; the camaraderie that has developed on the Oder unites the people, they control the river in winter for the common benefit of all.

He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits For Dead Men's Shoes

1970 • 34 min • Portugal

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes

Milorad: The Place to Be

1970 • 34 min • Yugoslavia

A new year's special dedicated to the popular comedy "Ljubav na seoski nacin".

James Taylor Sings James Taylor

1970 • 40 min • United Kingdom

James Taylor Sings James Taylor, a BBC broadcast from November 1970

De mes amours décomposées

1970 • 10 min • France

Fiction based on texts by Baudelaire, Sade, Lovecraft and Lautréamont.

How Did Books Leave the Forest

1970 • 8 min • Poland

Witty lecture about the creation of a book. First, paper production was presented in an accessible and fun way, and then the work of the printing house was told.

Den stora salongen

1970 • 12 min

The family's daughter throws herself out of a window in an attempt to take her own life. She survives and the family tries to figure out what they did wrong. A relative comes to visit and the daughter's tries to seduce him.

Factory

1970 • 56 min

A cinema verite study of the world of the blue-collar worker and the economic and psychological bind in which he is caught.

'Meteor' on the Ring

1970 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Former hockey players decide to try their hand in another sport - boxing.

Fly

1970 • 25 min • United States of America

The camera follows a fly as it walks about the body of a nude woman. Shot in extreme closeup and accompanied by Ono's eponymous song, the film sets out to celebrate the human body.

Sloping Fields

1970 • 21 min • Poland

Scenes of a village wedding and the hard lives of farmers in a remote mountainous region of Poland.

Gallery

1970 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

Short animated film.

Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

A CBS television special, renowned for its legendary "Yma, Ava....Yma, Uta... Yma, Oona" sequence. Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man (1970) won Anne Bancroft her only Emmy for her portrayal of 14 different woman in 14 musical and comedy sketches. Bancroft's husband Mel Brooks contributed to the script and also appears onscreen.

Money

1970 • 2 min

Experimental short 16mm film directed by Mike Henderson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Paulchen Haselnuß

1970 • 13 min • East Germany

Paulchen the Hazelnut has a beautiful flower. He is always in trouble with the wind that lives behind his house on the mountain. This villain kidnaps the flower and locks it up in the mountain. Paulchen takes up the fight with the wind, but it simply blows him away. Paulchen makes friends and together they manage to tame the wind.