All Films

Dialogue

1969 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

A chatterbox pesters a man with a flow of words.

Research in the Rhondda

1969 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Professor Archie Cochrane explains the research being done in Rhondda Fach on “the curse of the south Wales mining valleys”: dust disease.

The Ring Masters

1969 • 12 min

THE RING MASTERS images were produced on an oscilloscope, and were photographed through filters. The images were produced by electronic music. After editing, I composed a new electronic music sound track. –R. L.

Marriage Dropouts

1969 • 60 min • United States of America

Marriage was only a temporary remedy for their depraved fantasies.

Autoripresa

1969 • 19 min • Italy

Subject made on 8 mm film in 1969

TA' Box

1969 • 8 min • Denmark

In black and white, you can see the baking of a hash cake. In color you can see the collection of a TA'-Box bag. The faces of the characters are never seen - only their hands. The two courses are cut in parallel. (DFI)

New Towns

1969 • 17 min

A study of the new towns of East Kilbride, Glenrothes, Cumbernauld and Livingston. Considers how each new town has developed and grown in its own way. Aspects of housing, architecture, communications, industry, leisure, education, environmental considerations and health and traffic are all considered.

Multitudes

1969 • 7 min • Denmark

Mogens Zieler's attempt to convey the dynamic element in the graphics through the musical and rhythmic time course of a cartoon. (DFI)

A Concerto for Czechoslovak Tourists

1969 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

A documentary shot in Zagreb in 1968, showing the local orchestra playing for the Czechoslovak people who escaped their country after Soviet invasion.

Run Jane Run

1969 • 7 min

A girl's first day of school.

TVenezuela

1969 • 30 min • Venezuela

An analysis of the history of television in Venezuela, subjected to economic power and market interests. The film explores the messages that television reproduces through its "anchors" and the much-criticised soap operas.

Civilization · Woman · Money

1969 • 22 min • South Korea

Kim was working on Civiliation, Woman, Money, Korea’s first film to feature nude scenes, but had to end it because the actress, feeling humiliated, ran away without notice.

Race Relations Board

1969 • 1 min • United Kingdom

New law targets discrimination in housing and employment.

Turn On! Dancer

1969 • 1 min • United States of America

The first dance motion capture film.

Between Grass and Road

1969 • 15 min • Denmark

A Tale Out of School

1969 • 25 min • United Kingdom

The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail contributes to a smooth, comfortable journey.

Fractions of Temporary Periods (II parte): Due ore pomeridiane delle bambina

1969 • 21 min • Italy

Second part of Fractions of Temporary Periods completed in January 1969.

From Moosehide ... to Moccasins

1969 • 11 min • Canada

This film details the process of the creation of leather and the crafting of moccasins.

People of the Muskeg: A Moose Hunt

1969 • 10 min

This film documents a moose hunt conducted by the Trout Lake Cree.

A Book Is to Care For

1969 • 11 min • United States of America

The film tells the story of Bill, a young boy who discovers a worn and damaged book about the American Revolution in a secondhand bookshop and buys it for 25 cents. Through his experience, the film explores the lifecycle of a book, from creation to wear and tear, and the importance of proper care and repair. Bill, with the help of his schoolmates and Miss Walker, the librarian, learns how to mend torn pages, remove stains, and protect the book with a new cover and dust jacket. The film emphasizes the collective effort required to create a book and educates on how to extend its life through careful handling and repair, conveying a message of respect and stewardship for books.

This is Not a Demonstration

1969 • 8 min

A day in the life of Enrique Vargas' Guerilla Theater. A short, personal look at radical street theater in New York City.

The State Legislature in Action

1969 • 21 min • United States of America

Uses the authentic setting of the state legislature to study how a bill becomes a state law. Includes how the bill is introduced, faces a committee hearing and is brought to the floor for the assembly to act on and goes to the Senate for final action.

People from the Cellar

1969 • 13 min • Poland

A jazz-infused introduction into the milieu and musical environment of Andrzej Kurylewicz’s Piwnica Artystyczna club. With appearances by artists Wanda Warska, Włodzimierz Nahorny, Barbara Brylska, Stanisław Tym and Jean Chavrain – a representative of the Estates General of the French Cinema.

Places

1969 • 8 min

A call to overthrow the existing social structure in the form of a montage of New York's Lower East Side, subways, bridges, and Fifth Avenue ruling class glitter. Included is some wistful footage of a farmhouse in Trumansburg, New York. A soundtrack of selections from the World Almanac–statistics of Welfare, U. S. corporate profits, v. s. territorial conquests, etc. -produces an extremely jarring effect. –M. H.