All Films

To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

1969 • 30 min

Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel.

The Happy Owls

1969 • 7 min • United States of America

Two owls discover the secret of peace and happiness and eventually share their secret with all their barnyard friends.

Winter of the Witch

1969 • 24 min • United States of America

The life of a witch is disrupted by the arrival of a boy and his mother. The intruders' presence makes her struggle to adjust to the modern world, and to change from bad to good witch. Based on the book "Old Black Witch" by Wende and Harry Devlin.

Ron Rico

1969 • 19 min • United States of America

Ron Rico, a man without arms or legs, stands in a scrapyard when a mysterious and attractive women approaches him.

Village Holidays

1969 • 27 min • Soviet Union

A story about first love...

It All Goes to Show

1969 • 29 min • United Kingdom

A fading seaside resort attempt to revive its fortunes with a summer show.

Hasty But Tasty

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

The Aardvark is bedeviled by a portable hole which removes the ground beneath him on the edge of a cliff and lets the air out of a balloon suspending the Aardvark above the Ant onto whom the Aardvark plans to drop an anvil; anvil does not crush the Ant but hits the fallen Aardvark on his head.

The lift that went down into hell

1969 • 19 min • Sweden

A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.

Up in the Air

1969 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Victorian schoolboy adventure. Freddie is sent away to a boarding school where he is very miserable and tries to escape in several instances. Finally the head of the school who made his life impossible is accused and taken away.

Summer of '69

1969 • 55 min • United States of America

A professor has a new class of students, who are nearly as horny as he is.

My Name Is Oona

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

Experimental film with Gunvor Nelson's daughter Oona. The sound consists of Nelson’s daughter, Oona, repeating the names of the days of the week and of her saying “my name is Oona”. The latter is edited into an expressive rythmical structure that accompanies the visual structure of the film that plunges into the experience of a child where both bliss and fear reigns.

Old Paint

1969 • 8 min • United States

Short film.

Terminal Point

1969 • 40 min

A student film made by Robert Allen Schnitzer in 1969

Alice in Acidland

1969 • 55 min • United States of America

Cute and perky college student Alice is invited to a "pool party" by Freida, a female teacher who is actually a lesbian and has designs on Alice. At the party Alice gets drunk, takes acid and immediately becomes a lesbian, taking a bath with Freida. Later Alice gets mixed up with LSD-addicted hippies, rape, more lesbians, more LSD, orgies, suicide, and having sex with guys in boxers.

The Image of the City

1969 • 15 min • United States of America

"Based on the exhibition "Photography and the city", designed by the Eames Office for the Smithsonian Institute". A primer on the modern problems of and future solutions to growing cities.

Margarita y el lobo

1969 • 44 min • Spain

Lorenzo is a handsome, intelligent, charming, elegant and liberal man. All he asks for is total devotion. And Margarita, foolishly, falls in love with him…

Pirenópolis – O Divino e as Máscaras

1969 • 21 min • Brazil

It is the first film produced at the extinct ICA (Instituto Central de Artes), in a co-production between UnB (Universidade de Brasília) and the also extinct INC (Instituto Nacional de Cinema). Held at the Festa do Culto ao Mito do Divino Espírito Santo in Pirenópolis, state of Goiás, in 1968, it was completed in 1969, in Rio de Janeiro. The film is extremely important for the memory of Brazilian popular culture and the state of Goiás, as it is a work of art about this popular festival, and not just a documentary record, as it reflects its cultural character. Today the party is considered Cultural Heritage of Brazil by IPHAN.

A Matter of Survival

1969 • 26 min • Canada

The introduction of computers into the workplace in 1969 posed a threat to white-collar workers whose jobs they might replace. This drama documentary looks at the situation from the perspective of the employees and of management.

From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

Universal short chronicling the adaptation of the musical SWEET CHARITY from Broadway to film.

Vitalino/Lampião

1969 • 9 min • Brazil

From the clay used to make tiles or clay clay, an image of Lampião, the king of Cangaço, begins to emerge through the work of ceramicist Manuel Vitalino dos Santos. According to the artist, son of Mestre Vitalino, the most famous clay artisan in the Northeast, it would be preferable to abandon the art rather than having to change his artisanal production method. Tradition and consumption are discussed when the art arrives to be sold at the Caruaru Fair in Pernambuco. The soundtrack is provided by the voice of singer Severino Pinto.

Shot On Ice

1969 • 9 min

A short documentary produced by the Ford Motor Company about the stock car rally on ice sequence in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

What Is The City But The People?

1969 • 50 min

In 1969, The Department of City Planning in New York City developed a new city-wide plan. This documentary, produced and written by John Peer Nugent and narrated by notable urbanist William H. Whyte, was released on public television to provide a behind-the-scenes peek at the planning process. There's a lot that is gone from contemporary New York in this documentary: a gritty Hell's Kitchen, a robust Model Cities program, and acres of slums in Bedford-Stuyvesant. But there's a lot that, for better or worse, is still the same: poverty and prosperity, diversity and wealth, greed and good intentions.

In the Pink of the Night

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther has problems waking up in the morning and buys a cuckoo clock, but it causes more problems.

Abbey Road

1969 • 47 min

Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969, by Apple Records.