All Films

Mini-Squirts

1967 • 7 min • United States of America

Mini-Squirts (1967) shows two kids (a boy and a girl) playing house, only to take the roles of husband and wife in a movie/soap-opera fashion, complete with organ music and overly-dramatic dialogues.

Transfert per Camera verso Virulentia

1967 • 16 min • Italy

On a theatrical work by Aldo Braibanti, the special effects used in an attempt to construct a new visual grammar capable of describing "the new geography of boundless perceptions and imaginaries, the emergence of memories from the very distant phylogenetic past of our animal ancestors, a gift of psychotropic substances."

Tejo - Rota do Progresso

1967 • 11 min • Portugal

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

A Magnum for Schneider

1967 • 56 min

Introducing David Callan, in his first case after being invalided out of the special services.

Atom Man vs. Martian Invaders

1967 • 7 min

Martians land on Earth, prepared for conquest. Atom-Man is Earth's only defense.

Sniffy Escapes Poisoning

1967 • 5 min

A boy travels with his sick dog Sniffy to his medicine cabinet, where pills and other medicines sing the dangers of taking medicines without adult supervision.

A Slight Ache

1967 • 58 min • United Kingdom

In the breakfast room of a country house Flora and Edward are placidly finishing off breakfast, comfortably disputing as to whether the honeysuckle or convolvulus is in flower, and joining forces to drown a wasp in the marmalade jar. When a stranger appears at the garden gate his presence both disturbs and fascinates them.

Passport

1967 • 34 min • United Kingdom

A Kafkaesque story of the bureaucracy which governs our lives. A young man leaves his passport on a train and loses his identity in a mire of forms, documents and officialdom.

Cannery Rodent

1967 • 7 min • United States of America

Tom chases Jerry into a fish cannery; they get sealed into cans. Tom breaks out, but falls off a pier as the cans roll under him. A shark chases him out of the water; Tom drops an anchor on the shark. Meanwhile, Jerry has been hopping in his can; Tom opens it, and puts his finger in, which Jerry bites. Jerry tricks Tom into falling off the end of another pier, and right into the shark's path again. The shark manages to get Tom into a very precarious position, barely holding the jaws apart. Jerry takes pity, and dumps a shaker full of pepper into the shark, which ends up on the processing line and stuffed into a huge can. Tom is unrepentant, so Jerry tricks him with a fake shark fin.

Narcotics: The Inside Story

1967 • 10 min

Designed to acquaint junior and senior high school students with the positive applications of narcotics and drugs when administered by doctors for medical purposes. Shows how experimenting with narcotics and drugs can seriously upset the central nervous system.

We Are Young

1967 • 22 min

Youth in Canada learning to come to terms with the world in which they have to live. A picture of the journey to adulthood - a composite of many children's journeys. The production utilized 340 teenagers, 65 adults, and 50 children, none of whom had any previous acting experience.

Lionpower from MGM

1967 • 27 min • United States of America

"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five seasons" theme--fall, winter, spring, summer--plus a "fabulous fifth season". The main music is set to the rousing theme from "The Magnificent Yankee" composed by David Raksin in 1950. The promo is narrated by some of the best voice-over actors of the time, and is an excellent time capsule of a by-gone era.

A Song in the Woods

1967 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A little girl is walking in the forest while singing a song. All the forest dwellers like the song, and everyone sings it in their own way.

Frederic Rzewski eats spaghetti at Carlone Via della Luce 55

1967 • 14 min

The composer Frederic Rzewski ordered a film from Gerd Conradt for his piece “Selfportrait”. The film was supposed to be shown while he was playing his piece of music, he didn't want to be seen. The film shows Frederic Rzewski sitting down at the table in the Trattoria Carlone in the Trastevere district of Rome from a bird's eye view. He orders wine, salad and a portion of spaghetti. We watch as he eats, pays, gets up and walks out of the picture. All in one setting.

Wild Hippie Orgy

1967 • 28 min • United States of America

A bunch of hippies have a wild party.

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

1967 • 15 min • Germany

A satire on war and on the stupid things war inspires people to do. Four young men enter an abandoned fortress. Inside, they find military uniforms, which they immediately resolve to use to stage a bizarre war game. Their actions appear all the more senseless in relation to the peaceful everyday reality of the workers in the surrounding countryside.

Farm Family In Spring

1967 • 15 min

Filmed on the farm of Gerald "Red" Markham, near Whitewater, Wisconsin, and narrated by Red's son Dale. He notes that Spring is a busy time of the year on a farm, but especially on a dairy farm that has many acres to be cultivated, fertilized, and planted in field corn as well as sweet corn. There are also trips to town, meetings of the LaGrange Four-H club, and a birthday party.

Line of Apogee

1967 • 58 min • United States of America

Original electronic score by Vladamire Ussachevsky. My works are that of a person who fought the notion that he was gay because, in the time frame of the 50's 60's & 70's anything gay was perverted and evil LINE OF APOGEE is a dream chronicle of 48 minutes in color and black and white shot of 16 mm, with an original electronic score by Valdimir Ussachevshy. Ussachevsky was one of the founders of the form of electronic music at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Lab at Columbia University in New York City in the 1960s. It took the Grand Prize at the St. Lawrence Film Festival. 'An Extraordinary trip in Sensory Experience.' Wild colorful imagery probing a lifetime of a man's dreams' said Cue magazine 'A sumptuous color film... disturbing but visually beautiful psychological exploration utilizing surrealistic imagery' – Dance Magazine.

April, April

1967 • 12 min • East Germany, Germany

Little Max and his friend Tüte want to make the pharmacist into an April fool by asking him for a bottle of mosquito fat. But the pharmacist is clever and sees through the boys’ plan. He labels a bottle “Muscle Power for Cosmonauts, three tablespoons per hour.” Tüte wakes up little Max during the night because he is so excited to share his discovery: One sip from the bottle will turn anybody into a cosmonaut. Little Max drinks some of the tonic and immediately finds himself in full cosmonaut gear. Suddenly, both boys are in outer space, but the tonic has worn off and they are in their pyjamas. They urgently need another sip from the bottle. Or maybe it was all only a dream?

The Emperor

1967 • 24 min • United States of America

Comments on the background and popularity of disc jockey "Emperor" Bob Hudson, who bases his shows on the idea that radio is a fantasy.

The Truth About the New Anna Susanna

1967 • 20 min • Sweden

About the "aware, free and unrestrained modern woman" Anna Susanna.

Blocks

1967 • 10 min • Poland

A group of puppets in a handmade world encounter a giant visitor with an unexpected surprise.

North-West of Berlin

1967 • 54 min • Soviet Union

A military unit freed a soldier from captivity. It turned out that his fiancee serves as a nurse in this unit. But the soldier, whose face was disfigured by the Nazis, didn't dare to meet her.

Lenin

1967 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A brief overview of Vladimir Lenin's life and the revolutionary ideas that he relied upon to build the Soviet Union.