All Films

7 Plus Seven

1970 • 52 min • United Kingdom

After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Scabies

1970 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

A man is smoking. Something itches him and he scratches it. Then this repeats elsewhere. He starts to scratch himself harder and harder and at different places. Everywhere, from his sleeves, coat, trouser legs, small people start to fall out, and the man can no longer crush them.

Scenes Seen with Allen Jones

1970 • 30 min

Scenes Seen with Allen Jones explores the motive of the artist's famed graphic works,, paintings and sculptures. The erotic overtones of Jones's work are both controversial and exciting, drawing the public's attention towards a new sector of the avant-garde. Jones is introduced in his London studio, where he is developing an idea for a new painting as he meticulously studies his model. During his days as a top member of the Pop Art movement in Britain, Jones evolved a singular genre of imagery: totemic forms of torso-less legs, sheathed in vinyl, which have become his artistic "signature."

How to Make Glass (Manually)

1970 • 24 min • Sweden

Peter and Zsóka Nestler collaborated on this film, an exploration of the working techniques involved in the process of glass-making.

Kathleen und Eldridge Cleaver in Algier

1970 • 24 min

Claudia von Alemann filmed the co-founders of the Black Panther Party, Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, in exile in Algiers, on her own. Their filmed statements were intended for a solidarity campaign in West Germany for the release of Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale, their Black Panther friends.

A Protest

1970 • 43 min • Egypt

A story about a girl's protest and the possibility of this protest turning into a conflict

People in Railways

1970 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A compilation film about the complex railway systems of Great Britain, demonstrating the work and individual responsibilities of many departments.

Meu Nome é Gal

1970 • 12 min • Brazil

Gal Costa in her privacy. Unkempt hair, colorful clothes, many necklaces and rings, she and the streets of downtown Rio. She laughs a lot, gestures and sings. Rio's landscapes such as Lage Park, a quiet place in the neighborhood of Gávea, an active factory.

The City (Osaka)

1970 • 8 min

An animated fantasy that shows Canadians as urbanized people developing a vast wilderness with the aid of the latest technologies. Shown as part of the Urban Environment exhibit in the Canadian pavilion at the international exposition, Osaka '70.

Veronica

1970 • 28 min • United States of America

VERONICA focuses on Veronica Glover, a black teenager who has been elected to the Student Congress of her predominantly white high school in New Haven, Connecticut. Hoping to use her position to encourage conversation between her black and white classmates, Veronica narrates her experience in voiceover as we see brief, revealing scenes from her life: a debate in an African Literature class, discussions with her friends, and time spent with a teacher/counselor.

Nature's Strangest Oddballs

1970 • 47 min

Professor Ludwig von Drake narrates live action footage and animation about the planet's more unusual animals. Films show the iguanas of the Galapagos Islands and Australia's lungfish, duck-billed platypus, kangaroos and koalas. Cartoons include the story of a cold-blooded penguin and a flying burro (both from The Three Caballeros) and of Goliath II, a pint-sized elephant.

Die sieben Raben

1970 • 22 min • East Germany

A farmer and his wife had a girl in addition to their seven sons. An evil old woman turned the boys into ravens because she had not been invited to the christening. When the girl turned seven, she learned of the sad fate of her brothers and set out to redeem them. Her journey to the end of the world, to the sun, moon and stars, was adventurous and full of danger. But the girl persevered, found her brothers in the glass mountain, was able to rescue them and return with them to her parents' house.

Les Ajoncs

1970 • 13 min • France

An unemployed Algerian worker leaves Paris by hitchhiking. He soon found himself in Brittany and, seduced by the beauty of wild gorse, eventually established himself as a gorse merchant. But for problems with parking his little cart, he had a rough explanation with a law enforcement officer. The happy intervention of factory workers, the eager kindness they showed him, saved him from despair. This film is part of a trilogy "Them And Us" with the films "Les 3 Cousins" and "Techniquement Si Simple".

Space Projection Ako

1970 • 15 min • Japan

Experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto created for the 1970 world's fair, Expo '70 in Osaka. The film was made up of multiple projections onto the inside of the Textile Pavilion, a dome with an interior designed by Yokoo Tadanori, and featured a 57-channel music score by Joji Yuasa.

Mind Blowers

1970 • 47 min

THE MINDBLOWERS is a very corny softcore sex opus about a shrink (Norman Fields) who hypnotizes his female patients, to have sex with them.

The Salmon Street Saga

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

A cautionary tale of gang recruitment, SALMON STREET SAGA boasts a cast including Simpsons creator Matt Groening and a soundtrack featuring Dick Dale & His Del-Tones and The Cheers.

Casa de Farinha

1970 • 13 min • Brazil

Documentation of the production of cassava flour, a basic component in northeastern Brazilian food.

Library

1970 • 17 min • United States of America

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

Pink Floyd: Saint-Tropez

1970 • 54 min

A live performance by Pink Floyd at the Pop Deux Festival de Musique in St. Tropez, France, August 8 1970: including the following songs: "Atom Heart Mother" – 13:46 "Embryo" – 11:23 "Green is the Colour" / "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" – 12:21 "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" – 12:07

De Snelheid 40/70

1970 • 25 min

Memories of World War II are evoked by images of the then current events of 1970.

Cilalı İbo Avrupa'da

1970 • 59 min

A Turkish Nazisploitation movie from 1970.

The Winds of Fogo

1970 • 21 min • Canada

"Fogo is a windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland where the inhabitants for generations have lived by, on and from the sea. In this film William Wells, fisherman, and his two sons take a day off from the nets for a journey to the gannet colony on the Funk Islands, fifty miles farther out to sea. There are exceptional close-up views of enormous flocks of seabirds swarming on the cliffs and in the sky."

Matrioska

1970 • 5 min • Canada

A dance of painted wooden Russian dolls (hollow inside and of graded sizes so that the largest holds all the rest). They twirl, swing and sway to gay Russian tunes, never losing their fixed reserve. As the dance ends they hop up in turn into the mother figure, who then hurries off the scene.

Angelica, the Young Vixen

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

Young blonde Angelica has a taste for older men.