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Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-series, letters on billboards, shop-windows or street-signs, the banner-headlines of The Los Angeles Times, and climbs finally to the giant letters of the HOLLYWOOD-sign. In the meantime he discovers, to his great satisfaction, the location and stairs where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot their movie 'The Musicbox', by combining street-signs, partially shown on still-pictures of this movie: "…MONTE" and "…ENDOME", which turn out to be found on the street corner of Del Monte and Vendome in Culver City. This documentary is bluntly intercut with commercials, a phenomenon not yet known in the Netherlands in 1979. (Theo Uittenbogaard)

This children's story for adults is set in the courtyard of a large tenement building. The protagonists are a little girl and a little boy. Their adventures, laced with lyricism and humour, hold up a mirror to the adult world.

The 1973 New Year's Eve conference marks a historic milestone: the first time Wim Kan appeared on television on New Year's Eve. After years of successful radio conferences, he dared to make the switch to television, and that proved to be a golden choice. In a colorful political year, with the formation of the Joop den Uyl cabinet and the oil crisis, Wim Kan was in top form.

Made for TV documentary on the widespread habitual use of marijuana among schoolchildren and teenagers in the 1970s. Part of the NBC Special Treat series.

During the holidays, Aslan meets an old geologist Petrovich, who lived and worked in these places before the war. Here he left a bag with the only photo of his family, who died during the war. Aslan helps Petrovich find the people who have been carefully storing the bag with the photo all this time.

The program investigates the secrets behind the success of Japan’s most famous baseball team, the Tokyo Yomiuri Kyojin-gun, affectionately known as the Giants. An interview with Kawakami, the coach at the time, retraces the glorious history of this team, which was Japan’s baseball champion for seven consecutive years, until 1971.

The plot depicts lives of several young people from Zagreb from the perspective of a girl carrying a “god of the play” doll.

A marvelous portrayal of a key event in British caving, and of the adventurous spirit of the two cavers famous for their numerous cave diving breakthroughs and records. Documenting a world record-breaking cave dive of 6,000 ft (1,800 m) made by Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham from West Kingsdale Master Cave, in North Yorkshire, England to Keld Head.

It was while going to film Jeanne Moreau in the summer of 1970 in her house at Garde Freinet that Guy Gilles fell in love with her. She will appear in his films: "Courtyard side on the field side", then "Saint, martyr and poet". She will also sing for "Repeated absences" and "The garden that tilts".

Documentary about the rapidly fading Cajun culture in rural Louisiana. About half of the tape focuses on Nathan Abshire, "Mr. Accordion," who performs traditional music with his band and talks about the old life. The other major focus of the tape is the celebration of Cajun Mardi Gras.

A contemporary drama about the problem of adaptation of people from rural areas to the urban environment, which is characteristic of our civilization. A father and son arrive in Warsaw and find themselves on a large construction site of a modern thoroughfare, Trasa Łazienkowska.

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, staged by the State Academic Central Puppet Theater under the direction of S.V. Obraztsov. The play’s production and opening speech are by S. Obraztsov.

Portrait of historian Lou de Jong, director of the RIOD, the National Institute for War Documentation. De Jong (1914–2005) talks about his youth, his flight to England just before the German invasion, and his work for Radio Oranje. In 1955, he began his life's work: 'The Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Second World War'.

An adaptation inspired by Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. TV film.

A Christmas special of extraordinary beauty. One hour of magnificent staging, costumes, and music. Featuring Miss Velma Jaggers--famous the world over for her beautiful dramas and called by fashion designers one of the twelve best dressed women in American. Accompanied by the Statesmen Quartet and the Miss Velma Singers and Musicians. This is the rare and highly beloved complete recording of Miss Velma's holiday spectacular, Christmas in America. Now, presented in amazing low definition, digitally remastered from archival VHS. This is the actual, legendary, one-of-a-kind Christmas cantata extravaganza originally performed and broadcast from the Universal World Church in Los Angeles, California. —Universal World Church

Portrait of Hans Tetzner. Surgeon, specialized in meniscus surgery (football knee) due to his affinity with sport, especially football.

A quiet, unassuming man sentenced to a long term in a maximum-security prison uses his time to study and begins to write cryptic short stories.

A man tries to find love through a lonely hearts column.

Ten million German citizens were able to watch cohabiting couples, kissing homosexuals, group sex and the phallus of writer Fernando Arrabal on screen for the first time an hour before midnight on October 20. Eight percent of viewers rated the study, which was overloaded with porn commercials and superficial in its commentary, as "very good", 22 percent thought it was "good", a third thought it was "very bad" -- everyone was talking about it.

The Frankenstein Monster encounters a blind hermit, who welcomes him into his home, where a series of comic incidents occur. The festivities end when a villager arrives to drag the hermit off to the local jail. The Monster makes himself at home.

End of World War II. The director of the Wrocław zoo is decommissioning the facility on the orders of the Germans.

Swiss TV Special from 1978.

In this episode, Dr. Arthur Müller Lehning, historian and anarcho-syndicalist.

Michał Łoś and Urban Budny set off to rescue miners trapped underground.

A militia officer tries to find the perpetrator of the beating of a mechanic worker.

About the everyday life of border outposts in different regions of the country.

Telefilm directed by Morten Kolstad.

The mayor of the city destroyed by the Germans spreads a rumor about gold hidden under the rubble. Inhabitants rush to work.

This is a story about how a family with many children moves into a new apartment in a newly constructed apartment building. The film “Moving Day” won a Silver Dragon Award at the 7th Krakow Film Festival. The jury’s decision stated: “For the warm and soulful relationship between the director and subjects of the film, expressed in a laconic form.”

The film follows Mohamed Fazal Hussain, elder statesman and all-round Mr Fixit of Bradford's Muslim community, as he works on his newest project; an adrenaline-fuelled, Bollywood-style romantic thriller, shot on location in Ilkley.

A boy called the Pygmy escapes to the park after failures at school. There he meets two hooligans who persuade him to break into his car.

Martin Slivka's documentary film about Karol Plicka (1894-1987), the founder of Slovak cinematography.

Artist John Smith tells stories about tower block life, editing in bold, unconventional fashion, cutting into the material and highlighting the components and conventions of the film form - yet an intimate portrait of the block's inhabitants still emerges.

In 18th-century Paris, Jerome Coignard, an abbé who enters a Parisian soup kitchen called the Queen of Goosefoot, takes on the owner's son, James the Impaler, as his apprentice in exchange for a good salary. The abbé, a doctor of theology and a master of the arts, is a man of great learning, adventurous and fond of physical pleasures, who humorously highlights the contradictions between common sense and Catholic beliefs. In the house of D'Astarac, a wealthy alchemist philosopher, he employs the abbot and his disciple to translate ancient Greek texts.

The story of a young couple, who, despite experiencing financial difficulties, want to present themselves with gifts on Christmas Day.

Cultural documentary commissioned by Local Government for European Architectural Year, 1975. Focuses on "A Future for Our Past", a children's architectural exhibition, attended by President Cearbhall O'Dalaigh. Scenes from this event are intercut with footage of more than fifty architectural locations, past and present. A film for European Architectural Heritage Year 1975, whose objective was to stimulate people to look at the architectural context in which they live.

Series of portraits of prominent personalities based on photographs, archive material, and interviews. In this episode, Dr. A.H.M. Romein-Verschoor, historian.

Sir John Betjeman visits and explains the architecture of various churches in the Diocese of Norwich. Among those visited: Sandringham church on the Queen's private estate, the Holy House of Our Lady of Walsingham and Norwich Cathedral.

Complicated relationship between mother and daughter. An elderly woman, disappointed in her dreams of a career as a pianist, ruthlessly dominates her daughter. Her daughter decides to rebel.

A series of sensational films with an excellent cast. Sophisticated stories of fraudsters from around the world, suspenseful action and unexpected endings.

A crime drama about a mysterious storehouse in the Hammarby harbor in Stockholm, based on a novel by Dan Tarchila.

The film is put together as a collection of autonomous images which, once combined, make up van der Keuken's mental universe: family happiness, fragments of some of his earlier films, a homage to the saxophonist Ben Webster, two poems by the great contemporary poets Remco Campert and Lucebert, a portrait of the director's grandfather, who taught him photography at the age of twelve... 
"One of those small masterpieces one encounters by surprise..." Jean-Paul Fargier, Cahiers du Cinéma, 1975

A businessman who studies witchcraft as a hobby and a businesswoman who heads a coven are interviewed about their beliefs and practices. Shows the initiation of new members into a coven and the attempt by a "circle" to heal a member.

Colonel of the Citizens' Militia Stefko, after thirty years of absence, arrives in the town which was his place of work right after World War II.

A teenager suffering from scoliosis goes to the hospital in Konstancin.

In this episode, the politician Prof. P. Lieftinck, former Minister of Finance in the period 1945-1952.

Pawełek spends his holidays in the countryside where he meets Wisia. Meanwhile, somebody is stealing fruit from the boy's grandfather's orchard.

CBS News presents a Smithsonian adventure featuring Iris Love and narrated by Walter Schirra produced by CBS News in association with the Smithsonian Institution (1971).

"Deadly Earnest's Spooky Colour Marathon" was a hosted horror and science fiction movie marathon with Hedley Cullen as "Deadly Earnest" screened on ADS Channel 7, Adelaide, South Australia on 1 March 1975.

Due to the difficult financial situation, a young man leaves his native village.

A theatre performance by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, directed by Olga Lipińska in 1972. The role of Chopin was played by Leszek Herdegen, and George Sand - Halina Mikołajska. An attempt to recreate the atmosphere of the home of Baroness Aurora Dudevant, a writer known all over the world under the name of George Sand.

Portrait of architect Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999). Van Eyck is the son of poet and journalist Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck. He talks about his childhood in London, his studies in architecture at the technical college in the Netherlands, and his philosophy regarding architecture and visual arts, in which the pursuit of harmony is paramount.