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Yes, live in 1975 (May 10), from the Relayer tour. Played in Queens Park Rangers stadium in London, England, UK with Seals & Crofts, Gryphon, and Ace. The shot is pro, the audio is soundboard, but apparently not a multi-track. This was originally a bootleg, and then later re-leased on DVD by former band manager Brian Lane without band involvement or blessing. Generally considered the best concert video of the tour. Disc One: Introduction - Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite Sound Chaser Close to the Edge I. "The Solid TIme of Change" II. "Total Mass Retain" III. "I Get Up, I Get Down" IV. "Seasons of Man" To Be Over The Gates of Delirium I've Seen All Good People: Your Move Mood for a Day Long Distance Runaround (acoustic) Cachaça Clap Disc Two: And You and I I. "Cord of Life" II. "Eclipse" III. "The Preacher, The Teacher" IV. "Apocalypse" Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) Roundabout Sweet Dreams Yours is No Disgrace

The phenomenon of Brazilian oral literature with a study on cordel literature and popular singing.

Documentary on the struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Mozambique, focusing on the organization of civilian life in the liberated areas. Filmed in 1970 in Niassa, it was supported by the Mozambican liberation movement FRELIMO.

A documentary about dancer Heinz Bosl who died in 1975 - aged 28.

A BAFTA award nominated feature telling the story of the making of a sales film about beds.

Bureaucracy shapes our lives and guides us from the cradle to the grave. This documentary lays bare the idiosyncrasies of bureaucracy, whether in Canada, Austria, Hungary, the Vatican or the Virgin Islands. It also attempts to make the functioning of the public service more comprehensible. The absurdities of bureaucratic behaviour are exposed with humour and irreverence.

The world of an operatic singer is documented in a film portrait of world-renowned Swedish-born tenor Nicolai Gedda. One of the greatest singers of his day, Gedda has recorded more than 80 record albums of opera, operetta, oratorios, and recitals. The documentary follows Gedda in rehearsals and performances in New York, San Francisco, and in European cities, as he tells about his life as an opera singer, relating the personal satisfactions and frustrations of being an opera star and traveling around the world.

From Sierra Nevada to Andalusia, via northern Afghanistan, people live in harmony with horses, tame or wild.

13-year old Jimmy has a lot of questions about his changing body. His often hilarious search for answers uncovers the facts about male sexual development, and raises important issues about peer pressure and readiness to date.

The main character of the film is grandpa Ivan, a trembita player from Ivano-Frankivsk region. Through his story, Oleksandr Koval returns to his favorite method - looking at the Ukrainian village via intimate stories of his inhabitants.

This film explores the transformation of an image from color negative to color positive on one film stock. “The Still Life“ was painted its color negative during the filming and then the exposed film was processed and printed on color negative printstock.

Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the Potlatch. Archival photographs and films, wax roll sound recordings, police reports, the original potlatch files, and correspondence of agents form the basis of the reconstruction of period events, while the film centres on a Potlatch given today by the Cranmer family of Alert Bay.

A collection of performances by street musicians across the country, from New York to San Francisco, New Orleans to Chicago, the film presents 19 musicians in seven cities, and was one of Doob's first feature-length films. Among the singers, guitarists, drummers, dancers, and other artists, Doob includes street performance legends such as Brother Blue, Gene Palma, Bongo Joe, the Automatic Human Jukebox, and bluesman Jimmy Davis. The film captures a cross-section of Americans filled with raw talent, showmanship, and hustle, and presents a time capsule of the fashion, architecture, and culture of the 1970s. (Yale Film Archive)

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

The film is a portrait of various indigenous peoples around the world who still live traditional forest or jungle settings rather than westernized towns and cities, including groups from Cameroon, Brazil, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

West Berlin, December 1971: Several hundred trainees, students, young workers and young people who had run away from institutions occupied the Georg-von-Rauch-Haus, a building of the empty Bethanien Hospital in Kreuzberg. They want to shape their living and leisure situation themselves. The film was made by a film collective together with the young people and shows what has happened in the Georg-von-Rauch-Haus since the occupation.

On August 13, 1969 thousands of Chicagolandians flocked to downtown Chicago to get a glimpse of the first humans on the Moon (Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, Jr.). Chicago Filmmaker Tom Palazzolo captures the Chicago Apollo 11 Parade with wit and charm, highlighting the hoards of suburbanites who made the journey into the city.

Join Warren Miller for one of his most classic ski films to date. Meet the cast of skiers like Scott Brooksbank, Phil Davis, Lane Monroe, Hal O'Leary, John Truden, Skeeter Zoberski and many more as they ski around the world and show you why they are true Winter People. Journey to places like Chamonix, Bear Valley, Mammoth, Le Meuire, Sugarloaf, and tons of other great places to ski and see first hand where the great sport of skiing originated.

A chronology of the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bicycle race from the perspective of participants, organizers and spectators.

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall, Salford, which were then in the process of being demolished. Under the title 'The Changing face of Salford', the film was in two parts: 'Life in the slums' and 'Bloody slums'.

A political short from Norwegian director Anja Breien.

I went to Ladakh in the vain search for a shaman. What I found was a species of Buddhist healing that involved trance and a variety of magical tricks of the healing trade.

This film shows the exacting procedures used during the 1970 replacement of the calandria in the NRX nuclear reactor at Chalk River. Produced by the NFB for Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

Record of the life and work of Luiz Thomaz Reis, a cameraman who accompanied Rondon's expeditions through the interior of Brazil since 1915. He documented, in photographs, the revolutionary movements of the 1920s, especially that of Catanduva. In the montage, iconographic material, old films and filming made at the National Museum of Cinema were used, where some of his cameras are located.

A tongue-in-cheek documentary that goes "behind the scenes" during the production of Federico Fellini's film "Amarcord" (1973).

A 1973 documentary film from the Central Office of Information about the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary.

Documentary about the Black Panther movement.

A powerful record of what life —behind the wire— was like for the Catholic community living in the towns of North Ireland during the Troubles.

Shows efforts on New York's Lower East Side to revive abandoned buildings through the work and persistence of the local, predominantly Latino residents.

This docucumentary by John Brett conveys the impressions of cultural loss felt by an elderly Acadian man living on the south shore of Nova Scotia after his homestead has been deserted.

1976 marks the beginning of Beirut’s calvary. With a child’s eyes the filmmaker follows for six months the daily destruction of the city’s walls. Every morning, between 6 and 10am she roams around Beirut while the militia from both sides rest from their night of fighting.

Documentary looking at the history of horse racing in Britain.

Marketing film for Walt Disney World showing the creation of the new theme park, with footage of WED designers at work, actual construction, scale models, the Preview Center, and Walt Disney discussing his hopes for the project from an earlier 1966 film.

A pacifist apolitical documentary about North-Vietnam.

The southern city of Minas Gerais, São Tomé das Letras, founded in 1785, is placed on a quartzite reservoir and at the same time on a valuable floral reserve. The film deals with the ecological and social changes that occurred in time.

Documentary on 84-year old Marevna; painter, friend of Picasso and one-time mistress of Diego Rivera; and her daughter by Rivera, Marika; former dancer and actress.

Anthropological documentary about the brothels located in the Pelourinho area. A community formed by prostitutes, homosexuals, thieves, drug dealers and groups of families in the center of the city of Salvador. They occupy an architecture that once belonged to the elite.

A TV film about the preparations for Wojciech Fortuna's return from Sapporo, after he won the Olympic gold medal.

Examines the system of symbol communication devised by Charles Bliss for use by speech handicapped and deaf individuals. Profiles the life and work of Bliss and shows how his system is used by speech handicapped children at a Canadian center for crippled children

In Surinamers in Nederland: De terugkeer van het zwarte goud, we see Surinamese people arriving in the Netherlands, unsure of what to expect, and being packed into overcrowded boarding houses. The government's idea is that they should then be integrated into society as quickly as possible. This was to be done by the Centraal Bureau Uitvoering Vestigingsbesluit Rijksgenoten, set up in 1974.

Toronto-born Norman Jewison first gained prominence producing for Canadian television, then went on to greater success making Hollywood theatrical features. In this film he is seen directing a large international cast and crew in the film version of the musical hit 'Fiddler on the Roof'. Between scenes, Jewison talks freely about many aspects of the film industry and some of his experiences in it. A candid study of a director in action.

Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family struggles with racism, inflation and a threatened strike, as Winnie learns what it means to grow up white, working class, and female.

For generations the American Indians have drawn their legendary strength from their sacred ancestral lands. Academy-Award winner Cliff Robertson takes you on a remarkable trip to the spiritual places that hold the secrets of courageous warriors and the legacy of these proud people.

Members of the Lewisham Darby and Joan Club discussing road safety and comparing today's difficult traffic conditions with the more leisurely conditions they once knew.

Portrait of Cuban revolutionary intellectual Antonio Guiteras. Political events in Cuba from the end of General Gerardo Machado's dictatorship in 1933 to the death of the revolutionary, who was assassinated in El Morrillo in 1935.

Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande—based on fieldwork conducted in Sudan in the 1920s and 1930s—is one of the classic texts of social anthropology. Fifty years later anthropologist John Ryle and film-maker André Singer—among the last of Evans-Pritchard’s students—revisited Zandeland, in Western Equatoria province of Southern Sudan, for Granada Television’s Disappearing World series. They recorded the continuities in Zande culture and the changes since Evans-Pritchard’s time.

Inside the Giger studio creating one of his famous pieces, carving a mountain of clay into the famous "Alien". Experience Giger designing the Alien Eggs and the Derelict ship, as well as rare deleted scenes from the movie itself.

The world of Alagoas poet Jorge de Lima, author of unforgettable verses, is in O Grande Circo Místico, from 1977, directed by João Carlos Horta.

After the brief photographic preamble, an unstoppable storm of abstract textures in perpetual motion begins, a continuous torrent of organic images, an incessant cascade of expressionist splashes.

‘Dead Harbor’ deals with the people who were living in worst asylums at that time – institutions in which the society was throwing a way all those who they wanted to get rid off and marginalize: psychiatric patients, alcoholics, old people who no one wanted, ex prostitutes and the other social cases. Work was filmed in Asylum for adults in Bidružica. Without any real care or therapy, under hard sedatives and drugs, inhabitants of Asylum wasted their days without any meaningful activities – walking in circles in the yard, sitting on the benches or in the best case drinking in local pubs.

A brief look into the work of the COBRA art movement with footage of Dotremont, Appel, Heerup, Jorn among others.

An educational film that introduces young audiences to electricity through film and song.

An abridged version of the film “Ravi Shankar”, a film portrait of the Sitar Maestro, depicting through a series of interviews and recitals his versatile personality as a well-known classical performer and a creative composer of Indian Music.

Palestine in the Eye chronicles the profound impact of Hani Jawharieh’s death for the PLO Film Unit. The film reflects on his life through interviews with family, colleagues, and his own cinematography, including the moment of his death while filming for the Unit in 1976. Although the film has later been attributed to Mustafa Abu Ali, the Unit’s method of work was to describe everyone as a collective of “workers,” and we see this in the film titles, which collectively list the names of all those who participated as a non-hierarchical collective. Through this reflection on Jawharieh, we are offered an understanding of the workings of the Palestine Film Unit and its international connections.