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Survey of modern conveniences and amenities to be found on the reservation, including Navajo/Diné-owned businesses, boarding schools, soldiers and Boy Scouts, art classes, public ceremonies, and the newly opened General Dynamics Navajo Facility.
A film about Gerrymander and discrimination, including an interview with former leader of the Nationalist party in Northern Ireland – Eddie McAteer. This film was not shown at the time because Terence O’Neill and Sean Lemass met for the first time – and it was felt impolitic to show a programme that might have embarrassed the Northern premier.
"Our nativity scene will be among the blast furnaces this year": on 24 December 1968, Pope Paul VI visited Taranto, to spend Christmas Eve with the steelworkers, in a shed of the steelworks opened in 1961. For the first time, a pontiff celebrated Christmas Mass in a factory.
A glimpse into the working life of Eugéne Käufeler, one of the top chefs in London.
A journey on British Railways' only narrow gauge line, running 12 miles inland from Aberystwyth up the Rheidol Valley to Devil's Bridge with its impressive wooded gorge and magnificent waterfalls.
The visit to the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 67 highlights Canada's natural resources and advances in technology and science
A look at the various aircraft flown by British pilots over the last fifty years, including the Sopwith Pup, the Hart and the Blackburn monoplane.
Taking a look at more than just DIY in the home - we look at a DIY town situated in the Cotswolds and a DIY narrow gauge railway in Wales.
This work grew out of Knud Viktor’s private family recordings of his daughter blowing soap bubbles. Due to a cancellation from the intended composer, the film features Viktor’s first sound composition.
Explores the rich and diverse history of Texas, from its early exploration by Spaniards in 1519 to its eventual statehood in 1845. It highlights the various nations that governed Texas, the establishment of missions, the struggles of early settlers, and the significant battles for independence, such as the Alamo. The film also discusses the impact of immigration, the cattle ranching industry, and the discovery of oil, which transformed Texas into a land of opportunity. It celebrates the spirit of resilience and the cultural contributions of various immigrant groups, ultimately illustrating Texas's unique heritage.
A documentary from Maoist china which aimed to demonstrate the suffering of the working people under the old society. It was based on an exhibition in Shandong province.
The tour group's trip to Ladoga is interspersed with the filming of an unfinished project about primitive people.
Produced by programming in the BEFLIX language, run on an IBM 7094 computer, output via a Stromberg Carlson 4020 microfilm printer, describing the author’s BEFLIX language for raster-scan (bitmap) graphic output.
Shows the problems faced by Chief Spokane Garry as the White and Indian civilizations converged in the Northwest during the late 1800s. Deals with the Whitman Massacre, the Donation land law, the Indian war of 1858, and Indian disillusionment
A look at the history of the city of Spokane
Filmed in San Bernardino Chalchihuapan, municipality of Ocoyucan, Puebla (Nahua community). The documentary records the religious ceremony, celebrations, and rituals of a young couple's wedding, in the traditional framework of their indigenous culture.
Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Made by a collective of student filmmakers and stitched together by Bill Kerby in an MFA Thesis film. Students capture a vision of the counterculture from the inside by filming the music and arts scenes, student protests to end U.S. military occupation in the Vietnam War, and the police repression of the late 1960s on handheld film cameras. Countering the dominant representations from news broadcasts, the students frankly capture the intensity of police repression during anti-war protests. The film appropriates footage of nuclear bomb testing, merged with the footage of rock Musicians Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane. This visual merging of film content, overlayed with the music and sounds of the late 1960s paint a pressing portrait of the times. "Dedicated to Ralph Williams and Bob Dylan: May The Best Man Win." Funded by the Louis B. Mayer Grant.
A jazz-infused introduction into the milieu and musical environment of Andrzej Kurylewicz’s Piwnica Artystyczna club. With appearances by artists Wanda Warska, Włodzimierz Nahorny, Barbara Brylska, Stanisław Tym and Jean Chavrain – a representative of the Estates General of the French Cinema.
Inside Italian ironworks and steelworks.
This film describes how Puerto Rico, with too many people and too few resources, created an industrial economy and emerged from colonial rule to self-government. Governor Luis Muños Marin here decsribes his "Operation Bootstrap" program, interviewed on-camera with director Bill Deneen.
Illustrates the importance of planning early and obtaining expert advice in preparation for getting into the college of one's choice.
An experimental short that contemplates death and ephemerality.
Produced by the Portland Cement Association of Skokie, Illinois, this 19-minute film describes how Marina City was planned, constructed, and utilized. It is narrated by former WGN Chicago radio announcer Walt Newton.
A step-by-step description of how power from the national grid is supplied to British Railways.
A charming travelogue of coach tours available throughout the UK and on the continent in the 50s/60s.
The film is a historical account of George Washington's journey from a young surveyor to a pivotal leader in the American Revolutionary War. It covers his early military career, the French and Indian War, and his leadership in the Revolutionary War, including battles like Trenton, Princeton, and Yorktown. The film highlights Washington's struggle against British rule, his challenges during the harsh winter at Valley Forge, and his pivotal role in preventing a mutiny among his officers towards the war's end. It emphasizes Washington's integrity and his commitment to the principles of democracy, culminating in the establishment of the United States and the upholding of civilian control over the military.
The burial rites and iron making methods of peasants in the northern mountains of Cameroon
A documentary filmed at the Oron museum in Nigeria showing various traditions and customs of the Nigerian population and their value as art.
Short documentary.
An unusual attempt at cinéma vérité, in which people are asked if they are happy, while city lights flood the summer nights to the strains of a tender croon.
Short film about Volvox, a bubble algae
Aspects of water management in the Netherlands.
This is the first part of the three-part documentary about People's Republic of China, filmed in 1967 by Swedish filmmaker Bo Gaertze, and released by a number of companies
Instruction movie from the German Red Cross about burns, how it happens and what to do.
First transmitted in 1969, this film looks at a handful of the 280,000 railwaymen who work in Britain, especially the men who worked on the former Midland and Great Central routes, as they reflect on their changing industry. Inside Sheffield Railway Men's Club former steam locomotive crew discuss the transition from steam to electric and diesel engines, and heatedly debate their respective merits. Meanwhile, on the Manchester-Sheffield line a former steam locomotive driver remembers what it was like to go through the Woodhead Tunnel, where driver and fireman had to crouch down to avoid the fumes and get breathable air. Signalman Michael Gatonby reveals life inside the signal box, one of the loneliest and busiest jobs on the railway line.
Scenes from a carnival and sideshow in 1961.
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.
Documentary filmed in Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Lugo, Cantas, Noya, Carballino and other Galician cities.
“We made an insane film in Ibiza”. Rut Hillarp notes in her diary 1961. Hillarp films and participates herself in the company of her friends. In its drive to intoxication and lust, Dead Drunk has similarities with surrealist films and thus opens itself up to the unconscious action. (Filmform)
As the thousands of passengers move about Britain every day, the railway system they use is being transformed : soaring concrete sustains new stations, a hillside is moved to make a new marshalling yard; express freight trains carry complete loads of oil, limestone, cars, frozen foods; griddle cars and Blue Pullmans, roadrailers and driverless trucks - these are only a few of the changes and innovations brought about by the Modernisation Plan.
A questioning filmmaker from Québec finds out how Vancouver's poets and painters look at life and art. Among the people seen are sculptor Donald Jarvis, painters Jack Shadbolt, Joy Long and Margaret Peterson, and printmaker Sing Lim.
Portrait of the rural school of Mina Delina.
Author of the footage – Marcel Belanger – is terribly pleased to look at the face of his wife: that, in fact, is the plot, and who would argue. And so he watches her smile, and when she slips away, the camera lens stumbles upon garden gnomes, flowers, and bustle of the street.
And then lamppost-high snow sculptures, New Year's rides, hats with earflaps, frozen fingers, a giant snow crocodile! Minus fifteen Celsium at least, but the camera does not fail.
An evening in the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz between dancing couples, the bustle of the kitchen and at the festive table, accompanied by the sensual musical stylings of a jazz band.
Paean to Navotas and its “fisherfolk who celebrate life and death with small talk, music and rituals of burial in a cemetery by the sea.”
One hundred and ten members of the Maori Mormon Choir present chorals and action songs in the form of a stage production.
Short film created for the Department of Defense documents a test, code-named Project DORK, which was intended to determine if an aerosol of the delirium-inducing BZ could incapacitate soldiers at distances of 500–1000 yards.
The protagonists of the film are women working professionally and raising children.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary exploring what isotopes are and what they can do.
A film by Tom Spring Smyth was taken during the British Museum (Natural History) Expedition to East Nepal 1961-1962. This is a vibrant and colourful film documenting local life in East Nepal. From children playing on swings and a Ferris Wheel to goat sacrifice, shots of the mountainous landscape and vegetation, agricultural work and daily village life (domestic activities and craftwork).
This is chronic of the lives of Kharkiv students whose stable life was suddenly disrupted by "KVN" (name and Russian abbreviation of the popular show Klub Vesyólykh i Nakhódchivykh? what translated in English as "Club of the Funny and Inventive"). A documentary collage consisting of images of fields and housing estates, young people having fun, or a university setting and staged scenes filled with humour and hyperbole, accompanied by a voiceover recalling propagandistic socio-critical documentaries.
Building a wooden fishing boat. The draftsman is seen working on the plans, then we see the men in the yard slowly building the vessel up from the keel. Finally the boat is launched and taken out to sea.
Educational film on the funeral process.