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There is a happy family of a father and four sons. In this comedy, the four sons find love one after another and have a joint wedding in the end.

A family of string instruments goes out to meet new friends, meeting other instruments such as the family of the woodwinds, saxophones and percussion instruments along the way.

Short musical based upon a choreography by Pierre Lacotte.

This film captures a bit of their environment, which includes the Lower East Side, the Waldorf Astoria, the MacDougal Street scene, police harassment, show biz, humanity, their audiences and the film-maker.

Musical comedy set in show-biz milieu.

Medallion of the extremely successful star of the 1960s Marta Kubišová.

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His interest and education (at Columbia) was in music, painting, and poetry. His effort was to merge these three: “to squeeze sound and picture out of the same tube – to weave a cloth with warp as sound, woof as picture, and meaning the fabric itself."

In this promotional short for Once a Thief (1965), composer Lalo Schifrin explains how he tries to make the music complement each particular scene, depending on the scene's mood.

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, one of the greatest 20th Century operas. The story of the individualistic fisherman hounded by his neighbors who believe he murdered his young apprentice packs tremendous emotional power. The compelling narrative is richly enhanced by its subtexts: the lone outsider versus the conformist mob; the dreamer of improbable dreams that lead to tragedy; the artist (dreamer) versus the Philistines, and the homosexual overtones of Grimes' abuse of his child apprentices. Britten is conductor of his work and tenor Peter Pears is Grimes, 25 years after he created the title role at the opera's premiere. As the widow Ellen Orford, soprano Heather Harper is magnificent. Best of all, the sea is an ever-present actor here. When we don't see it in the background it exerts its presence in the abundant visual references to nets, barrels, and other paraphernalia of a seaside fishing village.

This early travelogue film, made in a Kenyan train station, captures an impromptu musical performance. Some passengers eagerly join in while others sleep—blissfully unaware of the performance taking place around them.

Young Qin Chong fled his home, and was later adopted by the Zhu family, who own an oil shop, but his stepmother frames him and casts him out, forcing him to sell oil on the streets. A chance encounter with courtesan Yao Qin sparks instant attraction. When the Zhu family faces hardship, Qin Chong returns, vowing to achieve success in the imperial examinations, while Wu Ba kidnaps Yao Qin but meets his death in his own mansion, leaving her holding the murder weapon.This adaptation broke from tradition, replacing the usual gongs and drums with a Chinese orchestra for its score, adopting a folk-song style.

A performance by Karel Kryl was recorded in 1969 and released from the archives of the public television and radio company NRK almost fifty years later. The recording, which is more than 22 minutes long, was made in Oslo, Norway, at the end of June and beginning of July during Kryl's three-week stay in Scandinavia, where he was invited by the Norwegian Student Union at the instigation of Czechoslovak exiles. Karel Kryl then returned to Czechoslovakia, but at the time of the Norwegian premiere of the program on October 28, 1969, the anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia, he was already living in exile in Munich. The then 25-year-old singer and exceptional poet accompanied his five songs, Salome, Jeřabiny, Bratříčku, zavírej vrátka, Marat ve vaně and Rakovina, with illustrations he drew with chalk on a blackboard in the studio.

On stage, Christa Ludwig's Leonore puts all others in the shade. In this role, she achieves something rare: a perfect unity of stage character and singer. Her male disguise is believable; this Fidelio is a slender, lanky young man with whom it is easy to imagine the silly Marzelline falling in love.

The film deals with the relationship between a nomadic Gypsy community and the local people. The Gypsies are forced to stop and stay overnight when one of the women in their group goes into labor during their journey. However, no one allows them to stay because they are labeled as thieves. Ali, the owner of a farm, allows the Gypsies to stay. Ali is about to marry Gül, the owner of a neighboring farm, as per his father's will. Hüseyin, one of the town's leading figures, has his eye on Gül. Hüseyin plans to ruin Ali's business and wear him down in order to win Gül's heart. To this end, he will collaborate with Sabri, the brother of Hasan, the leader of the Gypsies.

The Demon (1960) is a Soviet opera-film based on the eponymous opera by Anton Rubinstein. The plot derives from Lermontov's Demon, a poem which was banned for decades due to its sacrilegious content. The titular demon is a fallen angel, a figure of negation and a brooding anti-hero. He falls in love with Tamara but his love destroys her. The Demon is played by the brilliant Estonian singer Georg Ots.

An honest account from kids who enjoy a local coffee house. Church groups, social organizations, and just average teens used the coffee house as a means to get kids off the streets and into a place of mutual ideals and moral ethics.

Follows the life of Hull folk group The Watersons, which is made up of brothers and sisters Michael Waterson, Norma Waterson, Elaine Waterson (more commonly known as Lal Waterson), and their cousin John Harrison, as they spend a large amount of their time on the road in their van travelling between one folk club and the next.

As Amina tries to join a performing dance troupe, the other members try to figure a solution for their financial situation. Amina falls for Salah, the troupe's director and first dancer, but Salah tries to keep his distance because he thinks she is in love with another.

An animated short based on the cartoons of Gerard Hoffnung.

An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.

TV short for the series Bouton Rouge.

The schlager carousel spins! Finnish entertainment and drama. Hit songs and Suomi artists.

Between making a film with James Mason, performing for UNICEF in Paris, Bobby Darin performs in London for the first time in six years, singing Broadway Classics, such as 'Don't Rain on my Parade', 'Once Upon a Time' and his signature 'Mack The Knife' introducing his folk hit, 'If I Were a Carpenter'

A cutout of a woman's silhouette is displayed in many locations while a free jazz soundtrack is heard. The jazz musicians later pose for the camera in a studio.

A huge success at its first performance in 1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera satirized the conventions of Italian opera, using popular tunes to tell the story of rogues and criminals. With his distinctive musical arrangements at its heart, Britten's 1948 adaptation was a significant revision, amounting to a new twentieth-century opera. The BBC film, originally broadcast in 1963, feature a superb cast of English singers..

The Supremes perform live in Amsterdam on January 16, 1968. They play a number of medleys, originals, and covers. This would see a 2006 DVD release retitled as "The Supremes Greatest Hits - Live in Amsterdam."

1967 documentary film originally aired on French television about Hermann Scherchen.

The Finnish vocalist A. Aimo and Dallapé Orchestra perform in the TV-show "Suvisattumia".

Commissioned by the San Francisco Mime Troupe as a short to be screened during intermission for its rather infamous 1965 Minstrel Show (Civil Rights from the Cracker Barrel), which assaulted racial stereotypes by wildly exaggerating them. Scored by Steve Reich. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Shahr-e ghesse is perhaps the most popular of all Persian plays, was written in traditional rhythmic style that resulted in a kind of musical drama. Although it seems at first glance to have been written for children, its main audience, it is in fact a parable about contemporary socio political issues.

First transmitted in 1964, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is performed at the Royal Albert Hall. The Melos Ensemble is conducted by Benjamin Britten, and the performers include Heather Harper (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Thomas Hemsley (baritone) and Simon Preston (organ and chamber organ). Also featured are the BBC Chorus and Choral Society, Boys from Emanuel School, London Philharmonic Choir, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Bob Wooler, Cavern Club DJ and compere, takes us on a tour of Liverpool to see popular beat groups and local sights. Merseybeat groups perform aboard the Royal Isis, on a double-decker bus, at the Cavern Club, the courtyard of the Town Hall in Castle Street, on the grounds of the Liverpool Cathedral, a pub named Gregsons Well and across the Mersey on the beaches of New Brighton. Performances from The Fourmost, The Hideaways, The Clayton Squares, The Hoboes, The Mersey Monsters, The Richmond Group, The Spinners, and Tiffany.

The story of a young man who falls in love with the daughter of his music teacher.

A film about an Armenian rock band called "Dreamers" traveling around Lake Sevan.

A visit to the outdoor festival at Cleethorpes which hosts twelve top jazz bands.

A musical comedy, shot on location in the Sussex village of Lurgashall, during August 1969.

A concert at the Golden Circle with Don Cherry and his quintet was filmed and then processed to an art movie using various optical effects.

October 19, 1967. Roland Kirk (multiple reeds), Ron Burton (p), Steve Novosel (b) and Jimmy Hopps (d) share the stage at Fourth Mezinarodni Jazz Festival, Prague