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Rapidly edited scenes of a construction site are interrupted by feverish image-sound montages and end in a small micro-drama

Colony Kitchen was shot by the Pacific Coast Highway in California. Hiding her camera, Hafif filmed a young man pacing back and forth in a restaurant parking lot. He is joined by a second man who likewise seems to be waiting for something. After a while, a car pulls into the parking lot and a woman gets out. The three talk for a while, then the woman crosses the street. The men get into a parked vehicle and drive off. Toward the end of the film, the camera pans to the right, showing the action along the shoulder of the road and the moving traffic. A little later, the woman, too, returns into the field of view.

Work that illustrates the life of the Chuquicamata miners, criticizing their mechanical and repetitive routine that reduces them to just another cog in the productive gear. Armed with a script that works a mixture of documentary and fiction that introduces us to the current of thoughts of Juan Pérez, a worker who questions the real meaning of work and human existence.

The film depicts the history and everyday life of Udachne village in Donetsk region in the early 1970s. The film features the famous Ukrainian photo-documentary filmmaker Marko Zalizniak. He is 80 years old. He talks about his formation as a photographer, shows his early photographs from the First World War and the early Soviet era. Marko documented the history of the Soviet restructuring of the village, in particular the formation of a million-employee collective farm.

A firefighter band wanders through the wasteland. Everyone marches cheerfully until they encounter various adventures.

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A documentary about a de-segregation bussing program in 1979 between two Los Angeles Schools. Features interviews and footage from students, parents, and educators at Marquez School (Pacific Palisades), a predominatly white upper-class school and Coliseum School (Crenshaw), a predominantely Black and Asian working-class school.

During the Xmas break in 1971 I assembled a crew of artists, 3 on camera and 2 on sound, along with a few others to create a performance at the Topanga Mall in Canoga Park. I asked Don Drowty to assume the role of a candidate and meet people in the mall in character. At the moment the film started Don chose to change his role to become Evel Knievel, the motorcycle stunt showman of the time. The film was shot on Super 8 and the sound was recorded separately. This is the first synched version of the film originally shown in 1972 and now in 2015.

Experimental film by John Buchanan

Essay film about the origins of war in human history.

A series of vibrant drawings painted by Palestinian children are brought to life in Blown By the Wind. The montaged still images glimpse at their everyday lives, their memories and imagination following the Six Day War in 1967.

Documentary about workers of a stone working factory who bought their bankrupt company in an auction in order to save their jobs. The workers and employees of BEKU, a concrete and artificial stone factory in Franconia, are questioning their management.

This 16mm black and white documentary film was shot and edited by Portland State students during the student strike actions on the South Park Blocks in May 1970. In 2009, the film was selected by the National Film Preservation Foundation for grant funding to support its full preservation.

The first part of the film shows the locomotion and resting behavior, phenomena of color change, burrowing into the sand and the ejection of ink clouds. The second part shows the behavior of cuttlefish during prey acquisition. Two techniques can be distinguished here: Advancing and retracting the tentacles for fast-moving and small prey; grasping with the eight short arms for defensive and larger prey. The third part of the film shows mating and reproductive behavior. The triggering signals for intercourse with conspecifics are predominantly visual.

The mass migration of lemmings.

This documentary focuses on Cree oral traditions in northern Alberta and shows how this culture is passed from elders to youth.

Depicts life in the Middle Ages, showing medieval villagers, including a reeve and a serf, explaining something of their life and work.

THIS POLICE TRAINING FILM SIMULATES SEVENTEEN TEST SITUATIONS IN WHICH POLICE OFFICER VIEWERS ARE ASKED TO USE THEIR JUDGMENT IN SPLIT SECOND DECISIONS OF WHETHER TO SHOOT OR TO NOT SHOOT.

British Transport film.

British Transport film.

Holiday attractions in the Scottish Highlands.

This film documents the the bombing at Cooperative Árvore, in Porto.

A Labour government imposing cutbacks on the National Health Services is the theme of Dismantling a Dream. Pilger recalls the establishment of the NHS in 1948 and Health Minister Aneurin Bevan’s declaration that the “silent suffering” of the old, young, chronically sick and handicapped had no place in a civilised society. But, in December 1976, an official report revealed that thousands of children who could be saved were dying.

A film by Franklin Miller

An educational film intended for children from 6 to 8 years of age. ‘We Grew A Frog, 1970’ tells the story of two schoolchildren, Lynne and Martin, who collect frog spawn from the village pond, take it to school, and there, in a tank, watch the spawn grow into frogs. The film shows in close-up the developmental stages of the spawn-to-frog process. This educational film features the pupils of Whatfield School in Suffolk. Headteacher, Gwen Dunn wrote and told the story.

Explores the distinctive features of the major rivers of the continent, and discusses their contributions to the farming, recreation, transportation and hydroelectric power of North America.

A quote by the Soviet futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky about Lenin frames the plot of this film: A dead man who is “more alive than the living” today. On a tour through the Union of Soviet Republics, the film team meet friends “in the full sense of the word” without mentioning their names: encounters with people in the Soviet Union in 1970.

A representative of the Volgograd Section of the German-Soviet Friendship Society recalls German “comrades who fought against Hitler here […] and at other front sectors.” Equalisation with the people in the Soviet Union is completed at the Mamayev Kurgan memorial: The (German) visitors merge with the survivors who mourn their fallen.

The film honors the achievements of the NVA in preparing and securing the World Festival. It documents the opening, the demonstrations of the GDR youth, a military concert and a meeting at the memorial in Treptow.

Deutsche Bahn informs customers about transportation technology and the various methods of transport.

This film deals with the problems affecting the remote communities of the Labrador coast--particularly the relocation of families in more populated centres that offer better employment opportunities, school and medical facilities. The role played by the Labrador Film/VTR community development project is outlined.

Short film about hedgehogs.

Short educational film about games with cassette recorders...

Short film about a magical trick.

Short documentary film that addresses the negative impact of imperialism in Latin America, focusing on the Chilean situation. Among images that denounce the inequality perpetuated in the region, as well as the representative faces and practices of the imposed system, the film expresses a critical stance against fascism that, towards the end and using images of the construction of the Santiago subway, becomes optimistic about the change represented by the Unidad Popular (UP).

"In Black Forest Trading Post, the postcard landmark itself travels the world, a winking subversion of the whole idea of ‘being-there’ and of the pilgrimages that postcards, or for that matter, other souvenirs, are meant to indicate."- Stephen Broomer

Malte Rauch deals with the social causes of the revolt of French students and workers and explores the question of what remains of the goals of the uprising three years later.

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Historical documentary about how the oldest surviving (the first?) surgical film was found by Dr. Sanguinetti in Argentina among the ruins of the old Hospital de Clínicas in Buenos Aires, demolished in 1975. Features the recovered shorts of an operation by Dr. Alejandro Posadas (ca. 1899), and by the French surgeon Dr. Eugène-Louis Doyen, 1905.

Yulian Dorosh's film "Near the Sources of Folk Art" was shot in Kosiv region between 1963 and 1971. The film, done mainly on black-and-white, but with color inserts, tells out the masters of folk crafts of the Hutsul region. The film is dedicated "To the memory of Lev Dolynskyi and Danylo Fihol - my childhood friends." In the credits of the film it is clearly indicated that the author of the film is Yulian Dorosh and the film was shot in Kosiv region and Lviv in 1965-1971. There is no sound track on film stock. Documentary was rediscovered in March 2020. Since no later films of Yulian Dorosh have been found, there is every reason to believe that this film was the last in his cinematic career.

Documentary film shot in October-November 1974 on the occasion of the "Freedom in Chile" event promoted by the Venice Biennale.

A documentary about the performers at a Denver drag bar, consisting largely of interviews conducted backstage as the performers apply their makeup.

Pseudo-documentary film supposedly directed against the sex racket.