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TV movie about dance rites in the Philippines

THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a cotton field in the Mississippi Delta. One of the first films made about the southern civil rights movement

John Canaday analyzes the place of art among the humanities as an expression of man's attempt to define what it means to be a human being. Mr. Canaday shows how the masterworks of art and architecture have formed a visual history of man's thought, ideals, and most fondly-held beliefs.

"Pro Football's Longest Day" is a film documenting the 1962 NFL Championship game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants. It was a landmark production for NFL Films, marking their first paid venture and showcasing their innovative approach to sports filmmaking. The film, lauded by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, significantly impacted how sports were presented on film and television.

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to London on new British Railways Blue Pullman units. As with earlier British Transport Films, many of the personnel, scientists, engineers, crew and passengers were featured in the 20 minute film. It won several awards, including the Technical & Industrial Information section of the Festival for Films for Television in 1961. The film is also particularly noted for its score, by Clifton Parker, which, unlike the earlier Elizabethan Express is uninterrupted by any commentary.

Routine unfolds like an uninterrupted long take, and depicts a taxi ride from Tsim Sha Tsui Pier to the office of the Chinese Student Weekly in Kowloon Tong. It shows the street scenes of Hong Kong in 1968 and the state of mind of a Hong Kong young man after the 1967 Riot.

A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects such as the long walk to school, the distribution of milk during breaks, and a brawl in the courtyard.

A film about the heroic everyday life of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the fraternal assistance of the Soviet Union to the Vietnamese people, and the struggle against American aggressors.

Wanderings during the Cannes and Hyères 1966 festivals. Interviews with Louise de Vilmorin, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Louis Comolli, François Truffaut. Lunch on the grass of the Cahiers du cinéma, young onlookers on mopeds, children from the surrounding villages, the film portrays an era, a cinephilia, a cinema still in balance between art and industry.

A short produced by and staring forgotten UFO eccentric Frank E. Stranges making the case for ufology and interviewing several other odd balls.

Report on the town of San Pedro which exists in the middle of the desert and at over 2,430 meters above sea level. It also deals with the work of priest Gustavo Le Paige and the museum he helped develop.

Find bric-a-brac and trinkets galore in this vividly colourful snapshot of Portobello Road Market.

With cheerful humor, artist/filmmaker Ralph Hulett, by means of his easel, paints and brushes, draws Santa from scratch on a blank canvas. As he paints the artist talks about the history and origins of the legend of Santa.

An exploration of the relationship between man and the industrial surroundings of a fishing factory in rural Iceland.

This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra rehearsal. Includes conversations with a variety of friends and musical collaborators. Includes footage of Stravinsky and Balanchine discussing the Variations (in memoriam Aldous Huxley) and rehearsing their ballet Apollo with Suzanne Farrell.

A year in the life of Youth Hostel workers and patrons in Scotland.

"We'll Never Turn Back" was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era. Amzie Moore, a Mississippi NAACP activist escorted the film maker through rural Mississippi interviewing share croppers and activists in the voter registration campaign. Appearing in the film are Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaders Julian Bond, Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles McLaurin as well as other local civil rights leaders Curtis Hayes and Hollis Watkins. There are interviews with black farmers and share croppers on their experiences (often bloody) trying to register to vote.

Documentary on the urban development of Zagreb.

On an island the road ends where it begins, at the wharf. The wharf is the link to the rest of the world, until winter cuts it off. But the islanders know the winter sea and its movements. They judge the ice by its colours, avoiding the open channels, fighting through the slushy fragil ice, catching their footing on the chunk ice, and running all-out across the solid ice to the North Shore.

For the exhibition Dylaby, the museum’s director Willem Sandberg and artist Jean Tinguely transformed the Stedelijk into a huge labyrinth. The film follows a tour of the exhibition in which the viewers have to actively participate in this DYnamisch LABYrint. Van der Elsken walks through the exhibition; looks, sees and hears what is happening, and also records viewers’ responses.

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic — shifting and turning among tenderness, wildness, precision, abandon; qualities that could at any moment be sensual, comic, joyous, repellent. Physical equivalences are enacted as a psychic imagistic stream, in which the layered elements mesh and gain intensity by the energy complement of the audience. The original performances became notorious and introduced a vision of the 'sacred erotic.' This video was converted from original film footage of three 1964 performances of Meat Joy at its first staged performance at the Festival de la Libre Expression, Paris, Dennison Hall, London, and Judson Church, New York City."

Documentary about the 20th anniversary of Sarajevo liberation.

Survivors of the Jasenovac WW2 Concentration Camp gather to commemorate the first memorial service and the unveilment of the flower monument.

Sunflowers, seen as a life source, with their life cycle visually equated with that of humans.

Short documentary by Krsto Škanata.

A short film presenting an overview of plans for the future California Institute of the Arts.

"A comic promotional mock documentary about a boy and his uncle who visit the Silverstone Racetrack during filming of the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965)."

Breaking the Habit is a 1964 American animated short documentary film directed by John Korty about cigarette smoking and lung cancer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

A look at the mechanical and human components that make a brass band

"More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony. This film examines the patrons of art complex (corporations and wealthy families) and the culture displayed there. Juxtaposing the atmosphere of Lincoln Center with the vibrant street culture of a displaced neighborhood, the film correctly predicts the process by which the West Side was to be turned into a high-rent area for the upper middle class" - Third World Newsreel

Black and white UCLA student film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film paints a portrait of the anarchist hippie group, The Diggers, in the Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco in the 1960s. Members espouse their views on creating a society free of captialism and money, overlayed with footage of communal cooking, gatherings in the parks, concerts, and protests. Includes footage of gawkers who stare at and film the hippies in the Haight from their cars.

A documentary immersion conducted among young Cameroonians offers a refreshing look at their daily life as well as a vision of the future of the African continent.

A focus on the issue of dumped cars, how the problem is being addressed and a look at the dumping of other unwanted articles.

A film documenting Al-Sabineh camp for Palestinian refugees in Syria, with an unprecedented experience at the time, as he took the children after filming to show them the footage he filmed of them, the camp and its people, and recorded their reactions, laughter and speech, and added them to the film.

Dubbed “Ghost Town” in 1967, the area of West Venice was then an impoverished African American community. Los Angeles native and UCLA film student, Alan Gorg set out to capture the lives of its inhabitants in their own words. Without adding his own commentary, he allowed the subjects to express themselves, from the hardworking man with his young family, to the jobless youth who seek temporary release from their circumstances through drink and parties. Gorg aimed to give representation to African Americans, who due to housing and employment segregation, were rarely seen by white Los Angeles. The short begins with the voice-over of a white man discussing the savagery of African Americans. But we find it is not the people that are savage, but the harsh urban conditions. Opportunities are denied through systemic injustice and inequalities

Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and melodramatic soundtrack, Law of Baseness offers a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indictment of the Western world.

With impressive shots, the film shows the situation at various sections of the Wall, the escape of a young border soldier, protest measures by West Berliners, the arrival of additional US troops on August 20, 1961. It observes the activities and propaganda in the "Eastern sector" and reports on the effects of the construction of the Wall on the labor market and on the retail trade. The bloc confrontation reaches its climax during these days in August 1961.

A dryly humourous quasi-philosophical account of the nature and psyche of Scotland and its natives, from the perspective of two visiting Czechs.

A documentary film about the 1965 European Figure Skating Championships.

An interesting study of how new homes and flats are being built and the importance of building them faster.

An experimental film about a day at the barber shop.

Influenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis Leroi, Jean-Michel Barjol, Romain Goupil, Luc Moullet) are talking about their problems in producing less expensive and more free films in the french industry of cinema of the 60's.

From 1957 to 1961 170.000 Algerians flee to Tunisia because of the war. Most of them walk by feet across the mountains and the desert, carrying only a few of their belongings in their hands or on donkeys. As there is no clay in the desert they cannot build ordinary houses. They have to live in pits in the ground, covered with canvas, but some are offered to stay in American army tents.

Alexandre Alexeïeff is at work in his studio on the large pin screen during the making of The Nose. The film was probably shot by Claire Parker.

On-set interview with actress Marina Vlady, shot while Jean-Luc Godard's '2 or 3 Things We Know About Her' was in production.

A short documentary look at Chicago's class and racial divides in 1961, produced cooperatively by local religious groups.

The "Dudek" cabaret group, Edward Dziewoński’s lifetime achievement, one of the greatest post-war cabaret groups recorded by a documentary filmmaker during rehearsals. The stars of Polish acting could be seen on stage, accompanied by excellent songs by Wojciech Młynarski.

A documentary about the work of lumberjacks in hard-to-access locations.

The film depicts the daily routine of a wage laborer looking for work every day, who is at the lowest social level of the worker hierarchy. The commentary partly takes up the language of the dock workers and blends wonderfully with the black and white photographs. The two together result in a precisely constructed reportage about work and leisure in the port environment and its social conditions. Three moving film sequences interrupt the photo sequence and thematize the photographic form.

In the hinterland of Paraíba, the small wooden mills powered by animal traction, called “bolandeiras”, are doomed to disappear.

Uses live action and still photography to show how to develop paragraphs logically according to time, space or contrast. Suggests the use of transitions to connect ideas smoothly.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of film director Max Ophuls’s collaborators