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The Opening of the Wells with music by the Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinu was supposed to be part of Laterna Magika II.: Tour programme in 1960. However, it was banned by the communist committee tasked with judging the performance from “a politically correct” point of view. The committee claimed that Radok’s manners and morals were behind the times, and that the director did not show the ultra-modern techniques of Czechoslovakian agriculture. The premiere was postponed and Radok was fired from the Laterna Magika Theatre. His young colleagues (including Milos Forman) were officially asked to finish the rehearsals without the controversial part, and to make other minor changes in other scenes (these changes were made). Alfred Radok considered this to an unforgivable betrayal, as he expected them to leave the theatre to support him.

Songs about eternal love, American vagabonds, cowboys and desperadoes, with the romance of railways and trains speeding into the distance are recorded as film songs, and so, for example, in the well-known standard Franck and Johnny you will see M. Kopecký, J. Jirásková, J. Lír and others singing. In Chajda drnový, W. Matuška and K. Štědrý, K. Gott rides a horse or sails on a boat and R. Cortéz cries (off-screen) over the death of the famous robber Jesse James...

Rhythms of technology determine our everyday lives. Rhythms determine the character of the music of our time: jazz. Do we find the rhythms of technology in jazz? We compare jazz with technical processes three times, although music and image originally knew nothing of each other. Does this attempt provide an answer?

This documentary is devoted to the work of theatre and film actor and singer Nikolai Slichenko. Since 1977, he has been the artistic director of Moscow's Romen Theatre, the oldest professional Romani theatre in the world.

The film presents a love story with comedic situations that take place in the marshes south iraq, where it presents popular life there through the character Khanijer and the girl Naima.

An intimate slice of life portrait capturing all the characters and flavor of Maxwell Street.

A promotional concert film for The Dave Clark Five

Almendra, La joven guardia, Palito Ortega, Donald, Litto Nebbia all together in this little musical short.

This color documentary chronicles the musical concert on Mount Scopus in Israel a mere three weeks after the Six Day War. Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Stern join the Yoi Yisrael Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir for stirring classical renditions by Mahler and Mendelssohn. The concert was recorded by Columbia records for release at a later date and accurately captured the live music in all its classic splendor. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion sits proudly in the front row as the symphonies play to a capacity crowd. Scenes of the war, the Wailing Wall, schools and hospitals are also included as Bernstein and Stern tour the country and meet the people of Israel.

A daring fusion of current (circa 1960) pop idolatry with parallel (only a little more sinister) scenes of Ancient Greece. Based on the 'Bacchae of Euripides'.

Document of 1960's rock-and-roll cult band The Godz. Contains footage of a few mid-60's performances as well as candid footage of the band.

Music video for the song Daremo Shiranai by Kusunoki Toshie that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Tired of the constant abuse he suffers in his household, a boy runs away from home and goes on a series of sad and dramatic adventures, in which he finds the opportunity to show the power of his own voice.

Absurd comedy about a windowcleaner.

Documentary on Cuban music, rumba, regla de ocha and Abakuá.

In the late sixties, the American saxophone player and living jazz legend Ben Webster lived in Amsterdam for a year. Webster, who was born in Kansas City in 1909, was a unique personality in the world of jazz and blues. In the thirties, he played with all the great names. During his Amsterdam period, he stayed with an elderly landlady, Mrs Hardloper, with whom he appeared on a national talk show. In conversations with Van der Keuken, he muses on the past; on the fantastic experience of playing in the renowned Duke Ellington band; or on one of his best friends, who was so deft at eating with a knife and fork. Short, fragmented remarks, which Van der Keuken has edited in a loose, improvised editing style.

Claude Léveillée expresses the frustrations of a taxi driver steering his vehicle through the obstacle course of downtown traffic. Accelerated camera action heightens the fury and the frenzy.

A documentary shot in Zagreb in 1968, showing the local orchestra playing for the Czechoslovak people who escaped their country after Soviet invasion.

Starring Jim Reeves, Webb Pierce, and Marty Robbins along with appearances by Ray Price, June Carter, and Ernest Tubb (and many more!), this film takes you back to the country music of 1960's Nashville. Don't miss these country legends perform classic country and western tunes.

The Maestro brings a world of emotions to life interpreted by the orchestra and the animation.

In this short film from 1967, filmmaker Henry English attempts to place a context around saxophonist and composer Marion Brown’s flurries of notes and expression. Juxtaposed against performance footage and scenes from Brown’s environment are the musician’s spoken observations in which he, in a gentle Georgia accent, explains some of who he is and how his chosen form of expression (wild, free lines of spontaneous sound) may not be as alien as it must have seemed in 1967. (Austin Film Society)

Animated stop-motion version of the Day-O song featuring Bugs Bunny and Speedy Gonzales.

Short musical documentary with Siegfried Franz.

Thore Skogman sings a medley of his songs at home.

Presenting the world's greatest jazz singer, accompanied by The Johnnie Spence Orchestra and The Tommy Flanagan Trio.

Animated ballet etude presenting the conflict between dreams and reality.

A lost film featuring "Grand Ole Opry" style acts.

Music video for the song Awate Tokoya by Bonny Jacks that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Those sensual machines, steam tractors, reveal a remarkable ability to perform to music.

Performed like a series of vaudeville scenes that overlap, Antic Meet consists of ten playful and comedic numbers. The curtains opened with Cunningham moving among the other dancers as a clown-like figure "who falls in love with a society whose rules he doesn't know," and concludes much in the same way, as he attempts to keep up with the dancers, each with their own movements, as they dance diagonally across the stage. Cage provided the musical accompaniment, using a version of Concert for Piano and Orchestra, and Rauschenberg designed the costumes, which included fur coats and parachute dresses over black leotards.

Experimental depiction of nature.

A short documentary directed by Karl Deschauer.

Described as "the best film about Duke Ellington ever made" by the jazz legend himself, "Love You Madly" combines a behind-the-scenes profile with performance footage from Basin St. West Jazz Club, the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival and the "Concert of Sacred Music" at Grace Cathedral. A second Emmy-nominated program captures the full magic of Ellington's 1965 "Concert of Sacred Music," a mix of classical, spirituals, gospel, blues and jazz.

Tap dancing short with the fabulous dancing duo Koba and Kalee.

Albert and Bruce Lacey, all dressed in their stiff Edwardian refinery, dance and play strange unusual instruments in this manic, animated short music film.

Music video for the song Yuki to Kodomo by Kyoko Ito that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Five young men who have stowed away on an ocean liner are forced to work alongside the crew to cover the cost of their shipments. In order to visit European countries during their stay on the ship, they put on musical shows starring themselves.

Ping opera film.

Filmmaker Jordan Belson stated this was simply an unfinished project representing the zeitgeist of this time, rather than a finished film.

Documentary about some of the most popular songs of this famous Puerto Rican musical trio.

This is the much-bootlegged Royal Albert Hall show from London, filmed on Feb. 24, 1969. The show has never been released commercially but has always been popular on the underground circuit.

A musical performed by schoolchildren from a secondary modern (Markfield) in North London, combining lively dance to the sounds from a transistor radio, and the automative actions of a production line to the monotonous music of the sewing machines.

A film that places the bright and dark sides of life close together. From an understatement beginning, the movie drives up to an ecstatic highlight with a love act between two young people. The orgasm becomes an enormous image flow into the crematorium's death machine.

French TV Show

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers show off their collective musical skills in two high-voltage performances, one filmed inside a Tokyo studio in 1961 and the other recorded in London in 1965. The Tokyo set includes the classic tunes "Dat Dere," "Blues March," "Moanin'," "Yama" and "A Night in Tunisia," while the London gig features the tracks "On the Ginza," "Lament for Stacy," "The Egyptian" and "Buhaina's Delight."

Nazem al-Ghazali

Gerhard Kubik, a cultural anthropologist with a keen interest in African music, spent years compiling recordings of African fingerstyle guitar playing. This program showcases his remarkable collection of music, recorded in Africa and Europe. Featured guitarists include Mwenda Jean Bosco, Faustino Okello, Pierre Gwa, Daniel Kachamba, Mose Yotamu and Moya Aliya, representing the music of nations such as Uganda, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia.