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A look at the Iowa Commission for the Blind and its students in Des Moines. This program won a 1970 CEN award.

Documentary history of the peasant cooperative movement.

A state-produced short documentary by veteran filmmaker Saad Nadim, "The 6th of October" commemorates the Egyptian military's heroism during the October War. The film features real footage from ceremonial parades, interviews with citizens, and articles from Israeli newspapers of the time, highlighting the significance of the victory.

Meticulous documentary showcasing Felix-Filmi Oy's processes, personnel and, in particular, technical equipment used in film-making, including film cameras, vehicles, studio facilities, film editing tables, grease paint, focal lengths, star filters and even the bounties of the company's own kitchen.

"That's how it is, and it's fine," says the main character in Jozef Cyrus' documentary - a lonely, ageing farmer who endures daily inconveniences without complaint and runs a traditional rural farm. "(...) The field cannot stand, you have to work all the time," he explains. The camera accompanies the efforts of the protagonist, who - although the 1970s are coming to an end - does not have any agricultural machinery at his disposal and works like 19th century peasants. His only helper and faithful companion is the eponymous ox. Gradually, in successive shots, we learn about the protagonist's world view. This is the testimony of a man from a different era, who refuses even to sleep on a mattress because he was 'born on straw and will live on straw'. The successive parts of the film, including the scythe, the yoke, the birthday, the hayride and the autumn, are the elements that give rhythm to the main character's life.

Shot at a party sponsored by N.O.W. Conference on Sexuality in New York in June of 1973, numerous party goers talk about their sexual fantasies. Many are adorned in outlandish costumes that represent their fantasy, and they explain their reasons for choosing this particular fantasy or representation of fantasy.

Unemployment at an early age and the problems that arise from it.

The film follows the stream of consciousness of Ksenija Hribar, a ballet dancer from Ljubljana and a long time member of London Contemporary Dance Company.

Robert Richter was the first American filmmaker allowed to film in Vietnam after the war and report how its people were trying to heal the country’s wounds. With countries engulfed in new wars, this remains an important document.

New York Chinatown documentary

The anatomy and function of the forestomachs of goats and sheep are explained. Ruminating is illustrated using animation, radiography and endoscopy.

A look at the Garifuna culture in Honduras.

Elda Cerrato was an artist that set out to conquer materials. Her prior biology studies, her research with geometry and pictorial scales materialized in experiences with papers and pigments over wood, fabric or rice paper, giving shape to a body of work dominated by abstraction and symbolic narrative. “Energy transforms until it forms an image,” she would say, and that statement becomes palpable in her series La epopeya del ser beta, inspired by Aldo Pellegrini’s poetry. With the conviction of exploring other formats, drawings and paintings from this cosmological period are animated in celluloid. Shot on 16mm film and produced in collaboration with artist Ramiro Larraín, Algunos segmentos is a plastic unit of abstract motives and color planes to the rhythm of the music by the Improvisation Group of La Plata (GILP).

Ignorant of democracy but hungry for the West they cannot visit, the 17 million East Germans are a force that could decide the fate of Russia's European Empire. For most of the past decade they have been isolated by the Berlin Wall and a fortified border over 600 miles (965 km) long. Cold War attitudes have been slowest to melt in East Germany but this summer for the first time the German Democratic Republic opened its borders for three weeks to let in a BBC film crew. This is the first full-length report by a British television team on the life of the Germans who live 'Beyond the Wall.'

“This classic award-winning documentary is the first definitive treatment of the origins and rituals of the Black Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, It features two tribes: The Yellow Pocahontas led by Big Chief Allison “Tootie” Montana, and The White Eagles, led by Big Chief Gerald “Jake” Milon. The first part of the film reveals the sociocultural history of the Mardi Gras Indians, their costume prepartion, music, songs, dance and gatherings for a ritual practice. The second part is a sunrise to sunset visual account of the processions and street culture of the Black Indians on Mardi Gras Day. The film was screened for a full week in the New York Whitney Museum’s New Filmmakers Series. also was a finalist in the Cine Golden Eagle Awards and was screened at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. International festivals/screenings include: The Pompedeau Centre in Paris; London; Berlin; West Africa.”

A film about the island of Flatey in Breiðafjord,

A documentary feature following Rupert Keegan, a Formula 1 racing driver, as he struggles to qualify for the British Grand Prix in the season's least competitive car.

Documentary about film director Marta Meszaros featuring on-set interviews with the director and creative collaborators

Zhonggang, a former commercial harbour in Miaoli County once suffering from sedimentation and decline, thrived again with its joss paper (ghost money) industry. Almost every family was part of it: Different generations worked together, attaching gold foils and stamping the paper in red ink, before sending it to dry. When massive stacks of golden joss paper basked in the sun, the town seemed to be covered in dreamy golden waves.

The humorous short film focuses on the topic of gender equality, which is related to the changing role of gender in society and couples.

Peter Wiehl: Artwork 1975-2018 (2018) featured Cardinal Fires and Arrowcatcher, among other digitized films, paintings, and sculptures. The exhibition was held at the Mark W. Potter Gallery, Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut. Arrowcatcher was the subject of a 2007 spotlight presentation by the non-profit screening space Oporto, Lisbon, Portugal. After a couple of years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wiehl moved and worked in the film industry. Wiehl has performed and exhibited at such venues as La Mamelle, San Francisco, Exile Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Spokane Art Center, Washington, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City, Albright Knox-Museum, Buffalo, New York, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, among others. Wiehl currently lives and works in Bridgewater, Connecticut.

This documentary is the first film ever made by Bruno Monsaingeon. It was shot in the 1960s and early 1970s in grainy black and white and only average sound, when Boulanger was in her late 80s and still fearsomely in command of her abilities. Monsaingeon re-cut the film in 1977. This film remains one of the most important documents concerning this fabled teacher. She is seen at one of her fabled 'Wednesdays', a composition lesson held weekly in her apartment for almost six decades and attended by anyone who would come. In this particular session she talks illuminatingly with students about a small portion of Schumann's 'Davidsbündertanze'.

Short documentary set in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

A documentary about the girls at Marabou and their work situation.

A poetic portrait of George Curtis, the last traditional country potter in Littlethorpe Potteries, Ripon.

A recording of a clock ticking for 7 minutes.

Educational film for students in the "Chemistry of radioactive transformations."

This documentary was made at the request of Vidéographe on the occasion of the Montreal Olympic Games and as part of the series Sports à part. A broad perspective on the world of bodybuilding, it calls on cultural analysts and trainers as well as a few of those vying for the title of Mr. Montreal to give the viewer insight into the mindset and motivations of the bodybuilder.

Traces bronze from its discovery in Mesopotamia in the third millenium BCE to the 20th century.

Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances in the UK.

Educational short about menstruation and human female development during puberty, as brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson corporation.

The Kings Road punks go on a day trip - to 10 Downing Street! - in this edition of Captain Zip's Video Trip

Some of Tennessee's trashiest transvestites strut their fluff and lip sync their gender -bending hearts out on the opulent Holiday Inn Dinner Theatre stage. See Magda as Sophie Tucker! See Chiquita as Carmen Miranda! See Edwina as Ann (Bowlegs) Miller! It's like a bad high school play in which all the girls look a bit...well, scary

Using photographs, interviews, home movies, and footage shot in Philadelphia and abroad, Family Portrait Sittings tells the story of the filmmaker's family, from their origins in Italy to their life in the United States.

Short animated experimental film.

In May 1974 a group of Mohawk activists reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh. This abandoned territory was reclaimed by the Mohawks on the basis of a treaty with the State of New York enacted in the late 18th century.

Shot during the cane workers' strikes in 1975, this first authentically West Indian film bluntly depicts Guadeloupe as it was, thirty years after departmentalization.

Hamburg’s most popular neighborhood is undergoing redevelopment. The first blocks of houses have already been demolished, and the demolition crews are pressing on relentlessly. Along with the buildings, some of St. Pauli’s long-time residents will also have to leave. The film also tells the story of the tradespeople, who are likely to be the hardest hit by the modernization.

A short feature on the city of Gorky in the year of its 750th anniversary.

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.

An early film about transgender people. A production of the Documentary Film Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications.

Educational film about drunk driving.

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden.

Using the strangest objects collected from the trash, Mr. Gabriel dos Santos built his house in São Pedro D'Aldeia, on the north coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The film shows the interior and exterior of the house and reveals the simplicity and ingenuity of its builder.

Documentary short about the construction of a subway tunnel in Vienna, using a tunnelling shield.

Geographic features of a great frontier land, including scenes of the exciting new capital, Brasilia.

Set in Chikuho amid the closing of the region’s coal-mining industry, this film recounts the histories of miners and their families in a narrative that unfolds in a mixture of fact and fiction.

Views of the earth from the ground, from a plane and from a space ship show major features of the land, the oceans and the atmosphere.

This 1970s PSA-style short film titled ”Safety Facts About Crossing Tracks” combines b-roll footage and stop-motion photography to display the most common types of accidents and driving errors at rail crossings and how to avoid these errors

This documentary traces the alteration, through economic and political influences, of the Parker Hill area of Roxbury in Boston. An ethnically mixed family neighborhood, at present largely Irish Catholic, is now the location of a racially tense public housing project (named Mission Hill for a local church) which is occupied mainly by blacks.

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