All Films

The Image

1969 • 13 min • United Kingdom

An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.

Porträtfilm: Dieter Meier

1969 • 3 min

Ludwig Schönherr | Federal Republic of Germany | 1969 | 18 fps | 3'27" | silent

Bambi Meets Godzilla

1969 • 2 min • United States of America

Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

A Day of Filming

1969 • 54 min • Bulgaria

Shooting of a picture: to those, familiar with only from the screen, it is a entertainment. So, in a quiet Sofia street, a shooting crew starts their work. Bypassing begin to throng, curious people are looking out of the windows of the surrounding buildings. A scene is being shot of s short dialogue between the protagonists. It goes wrong all the time and is never complete. The mess gets beyond the comical, the true relations between the members of grew show and they do not look that excellent. At long last, the final scene is shot and the street is quiet again.

People of Earth and Sky

1969 • 49 min • Soviet Union

The heroic romance of the profession is in the story about the life of test pilot Yuri Garnaev, who tragically died with his crew while extinguishing forest fires in France in 1967.

Finnish Frustrations

1969 • 7 min • Finland

Dances are ending. Last chance for women and men to find someone.

Through the Magiscope

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

What Is Good and What Is Bad

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Cartoon characters discuss the basics of ethics using funny examples from real life.

Take-Off at 18:00 Hours

1969 • 41 min • Cuba

This film confronts the failures of the Cuban economy, although it is made in a Guevara-like spirit of moral exhortation rather than criticism.

The House Near the Prado

1969 • 60 min • United States of America

Marsha Jordan stars in this tell all tale about being a madam.

Directing Actors by Jean Renoir

1969 • 22 min • France

A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind.

Candy

1969 • 9 min • Denmark

An art film by Per Arnoldi about a wide range of things with redundant, non-functional ornamentation and banal beauty: Cakes, candies, lollipops, mechanical toys, slot machines, paper hats, masks, noses, fireworks, streamers, artificial flowers, pranks, flags and much more more. It is terrific that such ornate things are produced, on top of that by machine, and add appetizing and purchase-promoting properties to them. And in terms of beauty, this very banality can be accepted as fully as anything else. (DFI)

Golden Boy

1969 • 16 min • Soviet Union

In one city lived the Black Robber, the Pink King, the Blue Lady, the Green Bear and the Golden Boy. The first four heroes think that the boy is literally golden, and dream of getting him in order to fulfill their dreams.

Incident in a Glass Blower's Shop

1969 • 12 min

UCLA Student Film. "Like a carefully crafted short story, this psychological tale of the terrifying, unsettled personality of a superficially calm man evokes an atmosphere of loneliness and suspense by means of fine acting, definitive editing, and outstanding lighting effects. There is a fascination about the soundless man who gazes at his glasswork while various hues of light play over his impassive face and by the violence of his destruction, made all the more terrifying by the squealing and scurrying of rats"--The booklist.

The Wolf Men

1969 • 52 min • United States of America

The Wolf Men [also known as Wolves and the Wolf Men) is a 1969 documentary film produced by Irwin Rosten. It was produced for the GE Monogram documentary series on NBC. The film follows naturalists as they fight to save rapidly vanishing species of wolves. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Le jeune cinéma hongrois : Miklos Jancso

1969 • 53 min

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Jean-Louis Comolli, originally aired 15 December 1969.

Front in the Neighborhood

1969 • 35 min • Soviet Union

Psychological novel about the love of Yakim and Anna, on whose path to happiness the war became a fatal obstacle.

From the City of Lodz

1969 • 18 min • Poland

This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the older, more conservative residents, many of whom lived through World War II and are confused and somewhat resentful at the changes they're seeing.

Gigantes y cabezudos

1969 • 55 min • Spain

Jesús is a young man mobilized for the war in the colonies, and before leaving, he promises Pilar that one day he will return.

Mideia 70

1969 • 20 min • Greece

Euripides’ Medea in twenty minutes, set in the shabby outskirts of Athens circa 1970.

De Bom (of het wanhoopskomitee)

1969 • 33 min • Belgium

One day a garage owner finds an atomic bomb that has been lost by an airplane. He hides the bomb and shakes the country when he announces that he will not return the bomb until the production of such weapons of destruction is stopped.

Old People

1969 • 15 min • Hungary

Elderly Hungarians living in an apartment block attempt to gain recognition for their problems from government representatives.

Shit

1969 • 4 min

An unfinished archival short, in which the titular substance plays a key role in determining an outmoded man’s role in a changing society. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Family Star (The Mutt & Jeff Icecream Sundae + Mothman)

1969 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Various different holiday locations ar joined together through the pleasures of ice cream in The Mutt & Jeff Icecream Sundae, while in Mothman the strange title character crawls through roof-top windows and we see footage of a funfair. These two films have many similarities with the other Keen diary movies but have always been shown in this pairing, and under this title.