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This short film from 1973 offers a report on Regina's successful experiment with dial-a-bus, a flexible service midway between a bus and a taxi. The idea is to provide passengers with door-to-destination transportation at an affordable cost.
Documents the early, turbulent years of OEO'S experiment in police-community relations in Washington, DC R.1: Police and citizens express their attitudes toward each other. A citizens committee is appointed by the D.C. government, but dissension ensues over control of the program. Project director, Robert Shallow addresses the group; community leader Marion Barry urges citizen control, A pilot precinct is finally selected. R. 2: Police engage in training sessions, and community leaders struggle to replace the committee with elected representatives. A citizens' board is elected and the white project leader is replaced by a black official, Fred Lander. R. 3: Dissension between OEO and the community continues, but several programs including citizen riders, an emergency center, local police recruiting and an escort service, get underway. The board continues to struggle, and the program is refunded. At the films close, a small boy expresses his bitterness towards the police
In February 1969 activists and students gather on the Underground Square between East and West exit of Shinjuku Station. They declare the place a greek 'agora', a place where people connect and debate about politics. When they collide with anti-protesters the police closes the gathering place down.
An impressionistic film about jogging which seeks to explore the essential spirit of this solitary sport.
Pretending to be shamans, a group of young boys imitate their fathers, blowing ashes into each other's noses and chanting to the hekura spirits.
A campaign film supporting the dockers’ fight against redundancy, lay-offs and wage cuts caused by containerisation. The film charts the struggle against ruthless rationalisation, profiteering and land speculation, police harassment of pickets and finally the enforcement of the Industrial Relations Act by the arrest and jailing of the Pentonville 5. A series of massive solidarity demonstrations followed which freed the pickets and effectively destroyed the Act. The film includes footage of police harassment, dockers successfully calling on Fleet Street printworkers to strike in solidarity and the release of the five jailed dockers.
Examines psychological findings in the areas of conformity and independence. Includes a number of important field and laboratory findings by Sherif, Asch, Milgram, Kelman, and others.
Pardon of Josselin in 1975
A series of vignettes from the author's journey in a train.
Shot in the valley district of Setesdal, this film shows how the fabric used for the black skirt of the local "bunad" (a Norwegian folk costume) used to be hand pleated. Other entries in this series of five, relate how the wool is sheared and cleaned, woven, and sewn into clothing.
Marine propaganda.
A sponsored film made by Charles Dee Sharp for the Illinois Institute of Technology (iiT). The film showcases scenes of the city of Chicago, along side scenes of iiT student life, both within and outside of the classroom.
Documentary film.
A fiction from the series "Contos Tradições Portugueses", based on a poem by Alexandre O'Neil, telling the story of a fisherman tired of the sea, who departs to conquer a new life on land.
An experimental short film about "the joy of living in Colombia" and Kodak films
Arena profiles John Hoyland, seen by many as England's finest abstract painter. As a major retrospective of his work opens in London, Hoyland faces hostile criticism, starts a new painting and explains why, in his bleaker moments, painting can seem little more than ' flicking away in a corner with a feather duster '.
A documentary film based on the art of tattooing, tattoo artists and their clients, with interviews exploring the fascination for, and the reasons behind, choosing to be tattooed. The film builds up to long climactic scene, often since replicated in other films on the subject, featuring tattooed bodies displayed as art objects.
The Nine Road is the busman's name for one of London's oldest and most used bus routes, running between Mortlake and Liverpool Street. The film takes us along the route on a summer's day, and shows the operation and control of the Number Nines from early morning until past midnight. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."
Report on the open sea hunt of the Sperm Whale.
The Land of Komi begins on the banks of the Luza and, spanning nine parallels, stretches northward into the Bolshezemelskaya Tundra.
This documentary is devoted to the People's Republic of Angola, its realities, natural conditions and fight against mercenaries.
Methods for surveying and studying rock engravings in the Vallée des Merveilles, which have enabled us to define several styles corresponding to different periods of the Bronze Age. The topographical distribution of the engravings suggests an interpretation of their significance.
Adults believe that children dream of toys - robots, spaceships, dolls... The fantasy film on this topic is, in fact, a touching animation of the 70s.
The everyday life of a family in Tanzania is portrayed from the point of view of the eight-year-old son Twaha.
From its origins in Trinidad and Tobago to its status as one of the world’s most popular musical instruments, musicians such as Ellie Mannette and Pete Seeger talk shop and explain what they love about this extraordinary instrument.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary film looking at Sunday morning football.
Short documentary by huband-and-wife filmmakers who came to know Kahlo during her time in San Francisco. The film interweaves images from her life and work with memories of Frida shared by people who were close to her and her husband, Diego Rivera.
A sex documentary examining the varieties of sexual activity in San Francisco. It includes explicit footage from live sex shows and behind the scenes of a pornographic movie. A highlight is the film's period footage of San Francisco in the late '60s and early '70s.
Short experimental film.
Remind drivers of the rules of vehicular traffic.
One of 6 Films About Russian Cities—Seen Through the Eyes of a Protagonist and His Friends. Thus, Each City Reveals a "Countenance of Singular Expression."
The city of Almalyk in Uzbekistan and the city of Kirovsk on the Kola Peninsula are strongly connected. These are two links in one big chain of development of the national economy in the country. The richest apatite deposit is being developed on the Kola Peninsula. And in Fertilizers are produced from them at a chemical plant in Uzbekistan. The yields of grain and vegetables, as well as their domestic consumption and exports, largely depend on the efforts of the apatite miners at the Khibiny deposit.
Effects and set tests from Wakefield Poole's Bible! (1973)
The small Channel Island of Herm is just one-and-a-half miles long by half-a-mile wide. Situated three miles from Guernsey there are no cars on the island, but a number of people live and work there. In 1949 Herm’s lease was bought by Major Peter Wood, who set about developing a community there.
An issue of the film magazine 'Almanac of Film Travels' № 87, dedicated to the city of Mariupol (then Zhdanov).
A German Film award winning documentary.
Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The UCLA Bruins take on Stanford at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
In this film Eric Nilsson takes up the contrasts in the well-ordered Swedish society--order versus spontaneity; individual desires set against collective needs; subordinates vis-à-vis superiors. The young Swedes interviewed make a plea for independence, imagination, and the discussion of existing conditions.
Features experiments in an aquarium, illustrating the food chain as a continuous cycle. Shows how each type of living thing depends on the other, when the cycle is properly balanced.
The Junior High School, a two-hour documentary on the junior high school experience. A full year in production. First broadcast in 1971. “Heaven, Hell or Purgatory, Part I,” October 17, 1971. “From A to Zoo, Part II, October 24,” 1971. Reprint: Two-hour special, January, 1973.
Following in the bloody footsteps of the auto-accident documentaries produced by Highway Safety Films (HSF) of Ohio, came a number of independently produced imitators Produced by the "Suicide Club" (Dean Robinson, who also narrates), DEATH ON THE HIGHWAY is composed largely of still photos retouched with red ink to underline the gruesomeness.
A rare 1979 BBC Arena documentary on the Albion Band, Ashley Hutchings and the development of English folk rock up to that time.
A study of the sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Dani. The film follows the Dani sweet potato cycle from clearing off the old brush and weeds from a fallow field to planting, harvesting, cooking, and eating. At that time the Dani had the simplest of tools - long pointed wooden poles used as digging sticks that are hardened in the fire and soaked in water - and they still used their stone-bladed adzes. (By now, most Dani use steel shovels, axes, and bush knives and make stone adzes only for the tourist trade.)
A 55-minute documentary directed and edited by Mamoun Hassan when he was stationed with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Lebanon in 1974. The film opens with a day in the life of Dr Murad, a Palestinian doctor appointed by the UNRWA to look after the health of the Palestinian people in a Syrian refugee camp. It progresses to a recently bombed camp in Lebanon to the West Bank, via Jordan.
This documentary centers Miss Iowa 1970, Cheryl Browne, as she prepares for the Miss America contest. Browne was the first Black contestant in the pageant.
A short film by Tatjana Ivančić showing the life forms of a lake.
Propaganda documentary in which the Armed Forces try to justify the Argentinian military coup d'état of 1976.
Documentary film.
This film focuses on an old Palestinian man who is the subject of artist Ismail Shammout’s painting Memories and Fire. The film unravels his memories using archival photographs and Shammout’s own paintings to tell the story of Palestinian experience and resistance. By simply using a montage of visuals and sounds and avoiding narration, Shammout adopts a style that was used by early Soviet filmmakers who wished to communicate across language boundaries, creating a film that offered an non-verbal narrative of the Palestinian cause. The film was screened at a variety of festivals in the former Soviet Union and won a prize at the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week for Cinema and Television in 1973. Recently restored and digitized.
Sensationalist documentary about the supposed dangers of motorcyle driving.
Introduces the principle of newly developed computer techniques for planning train movements, crew and locomotive rosters and for producing and printing timetables. Explains the programmes, shows the equipment in action and some of the changes in working methods. Intended for British Rail staff involved in train movement planning, overseas railway audiences and specialist computer-application, non-railway audiences.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary explaining how well-logging equipment enables the petroleum engineer to obtain evidence of the potential of the oil reservoir.