All Films

La Sorcière de Michelet

1969 • 26 min • France

The film traces the history of witchcraft through Michelet's text, paintings, engravings, and film clips by Carl Th. Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman.

Gena the Crocodile

1969 • 20 min • Soviet Union

First animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Gena the Crocodile works as a zoo animal at an urban zoo. Every evening, he returns home to his lonely apartment. Gena gets very tired of playing chess against himself and decides to find some friends to play with. Animals and people respond to advertisements that he posts all around the city. First, a girl named Galya comes with a homeless puppy, who is then followed by Cheburashka. They decide to build a house for all the lonely citizens of the city, but a mischievous old lady, Shapoklyak, tries to stop them in different ways.

Our Lady of the Sphere

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery.

One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously

1969 • 60 min

Marty Feldman, for many years a successful comedy writer before turning to performing, explores humour through the people who create it, comparing their traditions, motivations and anxieties with his own. Among the people Marty talks to are Peter Sellers, Eric Morecambe, Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, Dudley Moore and Barry Took.

Precautions Against Fanatics

1969 • 12 min • Germany

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily. His protection from "fanatics" gives the film its title. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous.

To New Shores

1969 • 60 min • Soviet Union

On a gloomy March 1881, an old, sick man was dying in the Nikolaevsky military land hospital in St. Petersburg. Delirium tremens had done its dirty work: there was no hope for recovery. And this “old man” had just turned 42 years old, and it was the great Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Who knows what visions, what memories swarmed in his fevered imagination in rare moments of enlightenment?

The Stud Farm

1969 • 58 min • United States of America

A young man finds his brother being "kept" by homosexuals, and soon follows suit.

A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

1969 • 20 min • Australia

An advertising film with a difference: Into a strange computerised future where women “run things” by controlling huge colourful computers that go bleep booble bob bob ping etc, comes Yockoo, the boy from the bush, with his satchel of dried fruits. Slowly the women overcome their cold, futuristic ways in light of Yockoo’s size, shape and overall manliness. Eventually they unearth their deep feminine sexuality and cook Yockoo a feast of dried fruit dishes using cooking utensils from their local museum.

Pasolini on 'Porcile'

1969 • 5 min • France

Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about making his film 'Porcile', and about casting Pierre Clémenti and Jean-Pierre Léaud as the film’s lead actors.

Lusty Neighbors

1969 • 48 min

A twenty-something brunette confesses her marital problems to her sexy, blonde neighbor. The blonde suggests that the mousy, shy brunette attend her weekend "swinging" parties. Five sex parties later leads to her mental breakdown and a visit from the local police!

Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

Short film based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe and narrated by Vincent Price.

New Way at Northgate

1969 • 34 min • United Kingdom

David Gladwell's ground-breaking documentary about changes in a regional council's approach to caring for children with disabilities.

Bogui Nenes TV

1969 • 4 min

Recovered Zulueta short.

O Guesa

1969 • 20 min • Brazil

"Life and work of the Maranhense poet Sousândrade (1833-1902), illustrated with engravings on Brazilian history, from the discovery to the proclamation of the Republic."

Me Myself and I

1969 • 18 min • United Kingdom

The beginning of the prevalent theme – or question – what keeps us apart, even when together? This question in the later film not just the question, but as a statement…

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

1969 • 54 min • Italy, United States of America

Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During this film viewers go with him to the Colisseum at night, on a subway ride past Roman ruins, to the Appian Way, to a slaughterhouse, and on a visit to Marcello Mastroianni's house. Fellini also is seen in his own office interviewing a series of unusual characters seeking work or his help.

79 Springs

1969 • 25 min • Cuba

This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.

Blood Bath

1969 • 7 min • United States of America

A disturbed man makes a few terrible decisions that lead to an unexpected bath.

Shamrock and Roll

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

Merlin the Magic Mouse and his sidekick Second Banana encounter a rascally leprechaun named O'Reilly in Ireland.

Social Sculpture

1969 • 12 min

"Social Sculpture" was filmed in 1969 subsequently after the filming of "400 m IFF". IFF is the name of the available film material, that was already expired, from which approximately 400 m were used for "400 m IFF" and the rest for "Social Sculpture". In "400 m IFF" three men appear in front of the filming camera in the apartment of the author. With Joseph Beuys this situation had been appointed, the other two visitors came by chance before him and played instinctively. "They all noticed the exceptional situation, but could not count on the sovereignty to carry out their point. And even during the operations on the screen, the viewer becomes a participant who cannot avoid the question of how he would have behaved in the same situation."

Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert

1969 • 30 min • United States of America

I'm a Man

1969 • 20 min • United States of America

The story of John Barber, a Black man arrested for carrying a spear.

Rail Report 9: Top Levels of Transport

1969 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Report No. 9 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Euston; ships - Freightliner II, Antrim Princess; container handling Parkeston Quay; Merry-go-round coal trains; permanent way lining and tamping machine; off loading cable troughing; strengthening the Royal Albert Bridge; Old Course Hotel, St Andrew's; car bodies by train - factory to assembly line; Beckenham train control; speed up of West of England expresses.

Well, Just You Wait!

1969 • 2 min • Soviet Union