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This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted by the unmanned Ranger, Surveyor, and lunar orbiter spacecraft. It also shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of close-up photography of the Moon and includes views of craters, mountain ranges, and other lunar terrain.

A look at the flourishing winter sports business within Scotland.

Journalists Jean-Noël Roy and Pierre Dumayet interview 'Zazie dans le Métro'’s young star, Catherine Demongeot, and her parents.

Joe Kinsella talks about the problem of young people leaving Fogo Island after they finish their education.

A BAFTA award nominated BBC feature following American evangelist Billy Graham on his Greater London crusade, centred on Earl's Court in June 1966

The story of John G Stein & Co., MANUFACTURER of INDUSTRIAL REFRACTORIES.

One of the most powerful, thought-provoking collage films produced during the New American Cinema Movement. Almost schizophrenic in its kaleidoscopic barrage of images, this film dynamically conveys the bewilderment, frustration, annoyance, and anger of the modern generation in a stream-of-consciousness audio-visual onslaught of superimpositions. Produced by one of the leaders of the San Francisco New American Cinema Movement and a top producer of light shows.

The 175th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'Weatherwise', 'Firedamp' and 'Whitehaven Whippets'.

The musician and filmmaker Gino Piserchio is lit from the right and filmed in very tight close-up, his face filling the frame. His hair is combed down over one eye; he blinks and squints against the light, closing his eyes briefly and smiling at his own discomfort.

Journey of the Cortés family from their old village to their new house in Gargáligas, granted by the National Institute of Colonization.

Mondo documentary.

A look at the different types of rubbish generated by society and the problems of how to dispose of it, including recycling.

This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with their Venezuelan colleagues. The film also includes a brief sketch of Yanomamo culture and society.

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

The film's contents are as follows: Merry-go-round coal trains - between collieries and power stations; Motorail; stations - Birmingham New St., Durham, Sunderland, Kirkcaldy; hovercraft - Isle of Wight service; Cartic car-carrying wagon; testing of wagon bodies - Derby laboratories; Southern House; Glasgow suburban services; Guildford signal box; Freightliners, company trains; hostesses - Seaspeed and at Gatwick Airport station.

This film introduces the term Cheechako -- an Alaskan Indian word meaning newcomer. The film looks at what kind of living and working conditions newcomers could.

Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing".

Points out that mammals, including the anteater and seal, have hair and nurse their young. Shows representative members of mammalian groups - carnivores, rodents, ungulates, marsupials and primates.

A film about the development of Icelandic jewellery from the times of the settlers (9th century) until 1968, also featuring the working methods of some well-known Icelandic jewelers of the sixties.

Commencing with scenes showing the busy port of Al-Mukalā, the capital of Hadhramaut region on the southern coast of Yemen, other architectural features include: the Qu’aiti Palace, built by Sultan Omer Bin Awadah Qu’aiti, the walled high-rise city of Shibam, which rises from the edge of Wadi Hadhramaut like Manhattan skyscrapers and the dramatic minaret of the Al Midhar Mosque at Tarim. In addition to the built architecture, the film also documents sites of archaeological interest along the coastline from the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea, where a camp is established and the Tihama coastal region is examined between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Aerial film of the people and places along the coastline are also captured, with private and RAF aircraft.

Strand spent over twenty years documenting her friend Anselmo Aguascalientes’ life, eventually creating a stunning trilogy of films—Anselmo, Cosas de mi vida, and Anselmo and the Women—tender portraits that are also glimpses into poverty, resourcefulness, perseverance and patriarchy. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Short film directed by Roland Caemmerer

A fifth of Canadians live at the subsistence level. This is a look at that world, where the street is home, and where poor shelter, poor food, poor schools and poor health are the only certainties of life. Children, old people, the sick and the drifters are caught in it. It is a world filmed throughout Canada so that people who are not part of it can see it, think about it, and maybe help to change it. (NFB site)

The film has three plans: on the one hand, scenes of children who write a school task on the subject of the size and ugliness of a human being, on the other hand, the cadres of miners who protest against inhuman maltreatment of a colleague who lost his hand and on the third side, a shot of a disabled person with a prosthesis Under the arm passes through a rocky street.

The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. An ethnomusicological film experiment describing the subtle plays of the right and left hand of Dogon drummers.

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.

Portrait of a French boy who introduces the viewer to his desires and experiences in the midst of the great city of Paris.

About a domestic traitor who helped the Italians kill his fellow Dalmatians.

Recruiting film for RAF ground personnel.

Behind the scenes with the Children's Film Foundation, including the making of Lionheart.

A church-made amateur film which sees two Christian biker youths visit the legendary 59 club, where they meet its founder, Reverend Bill Shergold.

Schuhmacher and his team spent seven years traveling across all five continents to collect footage of the animal species that are most threatened with extinction, among them the Javan rhinoceros, Hamilton's frog and the birds of paradise.

Piwowski's documentary debut is a satirical reportage, referring to the poetics of the Czech school at the time. The starting point was an order from a film studio to join a project proposed by the Germans: what do teenagers in your country do on Saturday at 5 pm? Images from the lives of teenagers from Kętrzyn make up a contrasting slice of free time in a small town. Firemen maneuvering to start a fire outside working hours, bodybuilders training, choir rehearsal, dancing in Hitler's former headquarters...

Documenting news all over Latin America.

Impressions from the Hamburg harbour with unconventional soundtrack and using a new photographic technique.

A featurette that shows director Gordon Parks on location for the film The Learning Tree.

The entire life of singer Beatričė Grincevičiūtė is filled with music. The director sensitively and carefully creates a multifaceted portrait of the performer. In the film, she is both her own most demanding critic and a playful teacher to young children, who affectionately call her "Auntie Music." Surrounded not only by a group of friends, but also by admirers of her talent, she remains modest and simple, wanting as many people as possible to experience the beauty of music and her favorite songs. Only the subtle final shot reminds us that Beatričė experiences the world not with her eyes.

Short documentary focusing on the mountainous region of Belogradčick (north-west Bulgaria).

The dangers of speeding and reckless driving are illustrated courtesy of bloody accident footage supplied by the Ohio Highway Patrol.

A young woman named Phoebe Russell, is filmed wearing beads and a flowered dress; she gazes slightly cross-eyed at the camera, looking pretty but also increasingly melancholy as her eyes tear up. The Screen Test was one of the few shot by Gerard Malanga.

TV short for the ORTF.

Shows the properties of different solvents, including their electrical conductivity or lack of it. Shows how they affect the boiling point of water. Demonstrates ion migration during electrolysis.

A look at stamps in Britain from their design to their issue.

Exploding Plastic Inevitable was a series of multimedia events organised by Andy Warhol between 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by The Velvet Underground and Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, and dancing and performances by regulars of Warhol's Factory. It is also the title of a 18-minute film by Ronald Nameth filmed during one week of the show in Chicago, Illinois in 1966.

A film about the struggles of Poles in the partisan movement.

Visions of late night city bustle and one stray cat's meeting with a domestic kitty. The wordless story is narrated by colourful sounds.

There is a sports meeting in the forest, and Axiong, Azhu and the first "donkey champion" in the last competition signed up for cross-country running. Before the opening of the sports meeting, Ah Xiong and Ah Zhu practice hard every day, but the donkey champion thinks that the opponent is too weak, and he can securely win the first place without practicing.

TV short for the series Bouton Rouge.

Documentary of the work and personality of Jean Fautrier, painter of "Informal Art"

As the only work in this medium by Richter, the film was created for the exhibition Volker Bradke that took place on 13th December 1966 at Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. For the purpose of this exhibition, Gerhard Richter addressed the person Volker Bradke in different mediums. In addition to photographs, a banner and a large-scale painting Volker Bradke [CR: 133], the film had been screened. Richter transferred one of the stylistic features of his paintings of that time into film: the blurring.

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose adopted last name ‘Cavaquinho’ refers to the small guitar-like instrument that he played and used to compose his songs.

First transmitted in 1968, this documentary shows life in the British Army of the Rhine as seen through the eyes of one of its regiments, the 17th/21st Lancers, as they complete a tour of duty. It reveals how they manage their routine whilst guarding the Cold War East German front and how they try to live a normal life with their families in a foreign and sometimes alien environment.

The short film traces a historical overview of comic book production, focusing here on the Brazilian market.

Documentary on Cuban music, rumba, regla de ocha and Abakuá.

Landscape photos Cameroon: "Sacha" rubber plantation near the coast, workers tapping the trees and emptying the rubber that has flowed into cups into buckets. Individual processing steps for rubber in a factory. Mechanical processing of cotton harvested in the north of the country. Mechanical extraction of peanut oil. "Edea" aluminum plant.

When a business tycoon allows himself to be 'snared' into seeing some films in a railway traffic manager's office, there must be a reason for it. In this case, it's a particularly giant-sized transport problem. But before he's convinced that the railways can help him solve it, there is an atmosphere of battle in the room, and some interesting and unexpected facts are hurled about in the course of the argument. Made to promote the use of railways to transport raw materials and finished products.