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Paraphrase between the face of man and the face of the earth. It has a fundamental question: Who owns whom? The earth, man or man, earth?

A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater, where Russell once lived, and about the residents who inhabited it. The building is demolished to make way for an unattractive and bland office.

Legendary rumba musician Alberto Zayas serves as a guide for this vibrant journey through Cuban musical history and culture. The short features interviews, footage of impromptu street performances, and studio recordings.

The Roman city is essentially a meeting place, a radiant center of Latinity. Gaul is Romanized by road and by the city. The city is a place of residence, of worship, a cultural center of exchanges and leisure. We end up with the Gallo-Roman civilization (source: Média-Scérén)

Stone carving as known from ancient times is a profession that is disappearing. The film gives an impression of this traditional craft.

Dedicated to tragically deceased actor Zbigniew Cybulski, the film creates a subjective biography of its subject by linking together scenes from his movies.

"Porträtt av Åsa" observes the everyday life of Åsa, a young child growing up in rural Sweden. Through quiet, observational scenes at home and on brief excursions with her parents, the film records her encounters with ordinary spaces, objects, animals, and movement, capturing the world as it appears to her at an early age.

The official sequel to the original shockumentary, presenting new and bizarre behavior from around the world, including cruelty, graphic gore, and strange rituals.

This promotional film showcases the automobile whose adventures are chronicled in The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964). After the car is filmed in various European shooting locations, it becomes the star attraction in an international automobile show in New York City. We even see a fashion show whose colors and styles are based on the 1930 model vehicle.

Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the country of their ancestors, France. In a montage parallel, we follow them in France and listen to them talking to their friends about it.

Innovations in the bowling world are featured in this 1960 promotional film produced by American bowling equipment manufacturer Brunswick.

Educational film devoted mainly to understanding sexual behavior that deviates from the norm and circumstantially attempts to de-taboo human sexuality. The manuscript of the film, which uses a wealth of interviews, statements, charts and reportage elements, was written by the director of the Institute for Educational Psychology at the PH in West Berlin.

Corrientes carnival, polyform joy in the subtropical night, the renewed rite is fulfilled once again. Cascades of lights, multicolored pyrotechnics, exalted rhythms, the old Momo extends its reign over the littoral city.

The Fogo Island Improvement Committee discusses the building of a speaking platform for the anticipated visit of the Newfoundland premier.

The maiden cruise of the ocean liner Italia travels from Italy to California for the premiere of the motion picture "Valley of the Dolls."

Documentary about preparation for Vostok 2 space mission, launched on August 6 of 1961 with cosmonaut Gherman Titov on board.

Impressions of contemporary British arts and fashion. Summary of art through the ages taking in every thing from Mary Quant to the Marat/Sade production. Made for the Montreal "Expo '67" exhibition.

The Look of Funny Girl

Documentary about film as propaganda in the Third Reich.

The Cliff Dwellers is a 1962 English language short film directed by Hayward Anderson, starring James Hampton, Molly Scott and Betty Walker. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

A documentary about the work of Buster Keaton.

Cultural alienation of Iranian youth.

The film, set almost entirely in New York, tells of the life of some young people of the late Sixties: of the use they make of various drugs, including the terrible LSD, of their sex life and their freedom of costume and thought.

Sally Kirkland conceals herself behind her wild mop of hair, here eyes nearly invisible in the shadows. She holds perfectly still for about three minutes and blinks only once, a spot of moisture glistening in her left eye. By the end of the film she looks stricken, on the verge of tears.

In today's culture, the “Wild West” is perceived as a bygone era of adventure featuring cowboys and the like. However, the reality of the “Wild West” today is quite different. It can be found in the abandoned gold mining sites, the ghost towns of Nevada, Arizona, and California.

Documentary about the anti-nuclear demonstration staged in Trafalgar Square on 17 September 1961.

Created within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara’s death, Hasta la Victoria Siempre is a Cuban documentary tribute that combines archival footage, speeches, and images of revolutionary struggle to commemorate Guevara and reaffirm the ideals of the Cuban Revolution.

The subject of problem solving begins with an explanation of what the Eameses called “the information machine, “a device for presenting information in fragments so that viewers are compelled to see new relationships among events, objects and people.” The narrative accompanying the images points out the relationships between solving both simple and complicated problems, and then demonstrates that complex problems are solved by the computer with the same logical procedures that people use to solve simple ones. Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Filmex) Acknowledgement of participation, 1973.

A journey of a double bass which found itself floating on the Danube river. After its owner ditched it outside a bar after drunken night, an old musician and his grandson recovered it from the water, but this is only a temporary episode in the instrument's life before it is abandoned again.

Diamantes, short produced by the ULA, registered the birth of a new town: San Salvador de Paul, the arrival of new residents, farmers who ventured in search of riches, merchants, gamblers, prostitutes, all trying to snatch the momentary wealth of those who discovered the mineral, typical image of underdevelopment.

In September, 1959, six Europeans leave Cook's Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua or Irian Jaya, to trek north to the far side of the island. The journey (450 miles, as a crow flies) across unmapped territory took seven months; three Muyu porters died. Near both coasts, the expedition met villagers who invited them to observe rituals and live with them. In the interior, all villagers kept them at bay, and they depended on air lifts from Hollandia for food and supplies. They climbed above 10,000 feet, built 14 bridges, and fought leeches and malaria. The narrator focuses on describing Stone Age savages, headhunters, and cannibals.

Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.

Legault is an aging man who lived in a rural cabin, now a suburban cabin, as developments have popped up around him.

A study of activity surrounding a changing room by a place of swimming.

The film revolves around the daily operations at a business switchboard, highlighting the interactions between Connie, Kelly, and their colleagues. Connie is excited about her boyfriend Brad's success in securing a significant deal, while Kelly shares her frustrations about the inefficiencies at the switchboard. The dialogue illustrates the importance of communication and professionalism in business, emphasizing how switchboard operators, though often unseen, play a crucial role in maintaining a positive company image and facilitating important calls. The narrative concludes with Connie preparing for a date with Brad, reflecting on the significance of their work.

The film Wanderkino für Ingenieurstudenten was part of the extra-parliamentary opposition's (APO) so-called 'technology campaign' aimed at politicizing the students at the technical universities and schools of engineering.

A remarkable event the great American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King makes a powerful speech on a unique visit to Newcastle University.

A picture of the life of the residents of a workers' hotel.

Semi-documentary film about the pilgrimage.

Hilarious scenes from his silent and sound films as compiled and produced by Harold Lloyd himself.

The experiences of the vocational education at Oswaldo Aranha Highschool, São Paulo, based on a ideia of creating a social microcosm to put the children in a direct touch with their Country reality.

A 30-minute compilation of clips selected by Harold Lloyd that highlight his career, plus a slightly edited presentation of THE FRESHMAN (1925)

Personal impressions in Greenwich Village, New York.

A short documentary about the Bossa Nova, a style of zamba developed in the 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A documentary set in Paola, in Calabria, about the fight to occupy housing.

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family spend a peaceful day by a country river; a family goes to the seaside; some students visit Oxford during a music festival.

About Swedish artist, painter, sculptor and set designer Sven "X-et" Erixson, presented with Lars Johan Werle's music and accompanied by readings from various literature and poetry.

Simon talks about himself and his career, and why he prefers the company of his many animals to that of humans.

Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The ultimate objective of placing medium-range missiles under the ice — close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union — was kept secret from the Danish government. To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century.

A short documentary about Günter, who is handicapped.

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.

Baymen, no matter where they go, remain above all else Newfoundlanders. They were born to the sea, to a place in the life of their cliffside village, but many of the younger generation are now looking to the city for their future. The film, produced in 1965, follows a bayman's family to St. John's, showing what such a change means to father, daughter and grandfather.

This documentary asks whether London really was 'swinging' during the 1960s. The film follows arts reporter Robert Hughes, writer Lewis Nkosi and journalist Olivier Todd to gather an Australian, African and French perspective on whether London really deserved its reputation as being a 'swinging, switched on' city. They begin their journey in Carnaby Street, the Mecca of swinging London.

A BAFTA award winning documentary demonstrating how an oil rig is moved from well to well across the Libyan Desert.