All Films

Arte Pública

1968 • 14 min • Brazil

A film regarding the works, the studios and the performances of Abrahan Palatnik, Antonio Dias, Carlos Vergara, Glauco Rodrigues, Helio Oiticica, Ligia Pape, Lygia Clark, Pedro Escosteguy, Rubens Gerchman, Tomoshige Kusuno, Wesley Duke Lee, and the São Paulo 9th Bienal of Art.

The Pink Package Plot

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther is forced by a criminal to deliver a package to the Slobvanian Embassy, but must first get past the guard dog.

Marijuana

1968 • 24 min • United States of America

Sonny Bono appears onscreen to tell kids that marijuana is a "bummer" that turns you into a "weedhead" and will make you "trip out" (the fact that, based upon his performance, Sonny appears to have ingested unknown substances before the cameras started rolling tends to limit the film's crediblity somewhat).

Von Rosa von Praunheim

1968 • 12 min • Germany

In the background, Rosa von Praunheim sings a love song in a foreign language. The sound engineer counts as the camera moves over Rosa’s black plastic jacket. Carla Aulaulu sings while a young girl (also Carla) collapses from exhaustion while climbing stairs with a shopping bag. An erotic relationship is suggested as the camera focuses on the bag swinging between the maid’s thighs. The maid struggles to make tea for the Klostermann family, who sit stiffly in evening gowns with plastic egg cups on their heads and paper in their noses. One daughter stabs the maid. The family watches the maid’s excessive dancing, amused and embarrassed. Carla collapses repeatedly, with a twitch being the last.

The President, April 1968

1968 • 46 min • United States of America

The film captures the pivotal events surrounding President Lyndon Johnson's historic address on March 31st, focusing on his decision to halt bombing in North Vietnam and his surprising announcement not to seek re-election. The speech aimed for peace negotiations amidst the Vietnam War, leading to diplomatic breakthroughs with North Vietnam. It also chronicles the aftermath, including societal unrest following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and Johnson's efforts to maintain national unity.

The Night Before Christmas

1968 • 26 min • United States of America

Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's music and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.

Good Morning

1968 • 5 min • Denmark

Collage-inspired cartoon and trick film about a man who wakes up to a world where everything is sticky: the alarm clock, the telephone, the kettle, etc. - or is he still dreaming? (DFI)

Pink Sphinx

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther buys a camel and goes searching for a hidden tomb.

And Of Course You

1968 • 13 min

"This film depicts how people around the world benefit from innovations developed by the U.S. space program. Without narration, the film uses motion pictures, still photography, and animation to show advances in food production, education, communications, navigation, meteorology, resource exploration, mapping, and other activities. The film was produced by Murakami Wolf Films, Inc. (Hollywood, CA), directed by Jimmy Murakami, executive produced by Fred Wolf, and features the voices of Olan Soule and Lennie Weinrib, with music composed by Chico Hamilton" (US National Archives).

The Pink Quarterback

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

After the Pink Panther flips a quarter to decide whether he should spend it on a hot dog or a hamburger, it rolls away, and he goes after it.

Lullaby of Death

1968 • 25 min

“Ten girls set out on a journey…the first died after being struck by a waterfall…” A succession of homicides occur as sung in the lyrics of a song by a new singer, while radiation is detected from the corpses of the victims. Made for "Operation: Mystery".

Come On In! The Water's Pink

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther arrives on his motorcycle at Bicep Beach, where a hulky, egotistical man is flexing his muscles for a group of bathing beauties. Using his bag-full of inflatable items, including muscles, weights, a swimming pool, waterskis, and balloon animals, the Pink Panther diverts the beauties' attention away from the muscleman, who angrily tries to regain his dominant-guy-on-the-beach status.

Filmmaker

1968 • 32 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes documentary by George Lucas about 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola and his crew creating the 1969 film "The Rain People."

Praise to the Hand

1968 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

The process of violin making performed by Ivan Hus (1898-1992), a well-known Croatian violin maker.

Pink in the Clink

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther is forced by a burglar to help him break into a manufacturing warehouse and crack a safe.

The Circle

1968 • 10 min • Romania

Several men from different backgrounds and professions prepare, silently and separately, for a mysterious meeting, which will take place high up on a tall building, like in American police thrillers. Their relationship is not clear, nor why they end up dueling spectacularly through the (seemingly) interwar Bucharest, but the engagement is as serious as can be.

Penelope

1968 • 19 min

An experimental student film centered around a young woman named Penelope. Or is Penelope dead?

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

1968 • 48 min • United States of America

A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.

Nick Quarry

1968 • 15 min • United States of America

A 10 minute demo reel for a proposed TV series based on the Tony Rome PI movies. With an original score by Jerry Goldsmith.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther buys a land lot atop a narrow mesa, and the house he builds blocks a nearby observatory's view of the Moon. At first, the short, pointy-nosed astronomer at the observatory zooms his huge telescope into the panther's window and believes the newspaper photo of a sexy woman being looked upon by the panther is an actual observation of life on the Moon, and he telephones the fantastic finding to his employers. The Pink Panther builds a brick wall to block the telescope's view, and the hostilities begin.

G.I. Pink

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther joins the army and angers his sergeant with his usual antics.

Les Aventures de Lagardère

1968 • 52 min • France

A young man, Lagardère, discovers that a plot is afoot to assassinate the Duke of Nevers. He warns him and flees with his daughter, Aurore. Fifteen years pass. Lagardère has raised Aurore as his own, but her mother seeks her out and has her abducted by her men. With the help of two friends, Lagardère rescues the girl and confronts her kidnappers.

Lavra Dor

1968 • 11 min • Brazil

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

The World of the Seekers

1968 • 56 min • Australia

While flying to the first stop on their latest tour, the four members of the Australian music group The Seekers recall in flashback the origins of the group and their rise to success.