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The film tells the story of the daily lives and careers of two young people in West Berlin. They got married in Gretna Green, Scotland, where it is possible to do so without parental consent.

A tactile description of London, made up of photographs, fragments and different types of film stock.

Documentary by Joachim Jomeyer

Pictures made from an 1800-foot panorama painted in 1848 and authentic songs of the period sung and played by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacCall are used in portraying a whaling voyage around the world. Includes views of New Bedford, Mass., the Azores, Hawaii, Tahiti, the Alaskan whaling grounds, the Horn, and the harbors of Typee and Rio.

Documentary film.

Five and a half minutes from Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill, in the driver's cab of the Blue Pullman to the accompianiment of Johann Strauss's "Perpetuum Mobile", the camera makes the journey at a speed of about 960 mph! Inside the train, passengers eat and drink, sleep or read, oblivious of the speed at which they travel.

An informative film about marinas and boating life in Oslo, including a historical retrospective. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

Documentary by Hans J. Gnamm

Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.

Characterized as a "fictionalized documentary" by the producer, this bizarre experimental drama is the story of three days in the life of a highly charged and successful Long Island insurance salesman who takes a filmmaker to Las Vegas. Though the protagonists really are a salesman and a director, the line between reality and fiction is hopelessly blurred as the story unfolds. . . The brash, loud and supremely confidant salesman shmoozes his clients in a way that is a game for him. He uses his powers of persuasion to acquire more and more sales. He and his cronies drink and feast over their success before embarking on the Las Vegas convention. The company even goes so far as to provide women for the married men, rewarding their career successes with amoral excesses in this film that concludes with a dream sequence on a beach.

Documentary directed by Kôji Seki.

A young Japanese-Canadian businessman, now established in Montréal, recalls the time during World War II when the Japanese-Canadian community of Canada's west coast was uprooted and moved inland. There are some flashbacks to the events he describes, but the film is mainly about his home and family life in Montréal and his successful career as a chemical engineer.

A portrait of Afro-Brazilian resistance traditions in Bahia and their confrontations with persecution and intolerance. The history of capoeira, which came from Angola, was persecuted and criminalized for decades, and later transformed into a national sport and spectacle. The maculelê, a warrior dance brought from Mozambique, accompanied by loud chanting. Finally, the candomblé terreiros - a mystical cry of rebellion.

1962 Japanese documentary

Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch demonstrations of gruesome anti-riot weapons, sing patriotic songs, and defend their policies in front of the camera. Although filmed with the permission of the chiefs, the view is unsympathetic, sometimes funny, and more often frightening.

Water functions as a willing worker, shaping the land, shifting earth or rock, carrying the food by which plants survive, and so supporting other forms of life. This film is designed primarily to show the astonishing utility of this common substance, but it also shows the beauty of water in movement, from raindrops pelting the earth to the mighty cataract of Niagara.

Report No. 9 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Euston; ships - Freightliner II, Antrim Princess; container handling Parkeston Quay; Merry-go-round coal trains; permanent way lining and tamping machine; off loading cable troughing; strengthening the Royal Albert Bridge; Old Course Hotel, St Andrew's; car bodies by train - factory to assembly line; Beckenham train control; speed up of West of England expresses.

Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966.

A look at the impact of the bicycle and the increasing interest in cycle racing.

Above the tip of Cape York, beyond the northernmost point of the Australian continent, are the Torres Strait Islands. The economy here is based on home gardens and pearlshell fishing. The culture, with its basis in music, dancing and ceremony, provides a striking contrast to that of mainland Australia. This film, shot in the late 1960s, shows how strongly old traditions still affect Torres Strait Islander people, even though they also have most of the trappings of modern life.

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

A wildly satirical deconstruction of TV advertising.

A 1965 film by Hubert Knapp.

A look at jobs requiring a head for heights.

Fishing, farming and life in the great outdoors in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Short by Thomas Schamoni.

Cinéma vérité documentary inspired by the film "Chronicle of a Summer" by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin.

Everyday, journalists have many tasks to do, from interview to the finished newspaper. The actualities live until the day is over, and the newspaper eventually ends up on the ground as yesterday's news.

Short documentary.

A look at the pastime of angling in Britain

The boom of the clothing industry brought great work for female machinists. This film presents how new recruits were hired and then trained to use the sewing machine in the workshop, or in one example, how not to manage recruits.

Follows the treatment of Minamata disease patients

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

The life of Saint Anthony is intertwined with the seventh centenary of the discovery of his relics.

A look at the world of auctions and auctioneers, with a glimpse at the various items sold and the different types of people drawn to the sale rooms.

This documentary explores the years following Canadian Confederation, a delicate period in regard to American attitudes towards Canada. This was a critical time for the two countries, and the complex diplomacy of the Treaty of Washington is brought to life. Part 8 of the series Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations with the United States.

Reconstruction of a dramatic episode in the partisan struggle that took place in Treviso in July 1944, where a raid by Nazi-Fascist militias led to the capture and hanging of more than seventy partisans.

Uses the authentic setting of the state legislature to study how a bill becomes a state law. Includes how the bill is introduced, faces a committee hearing and is brought to the floor for the assembly to act on and goes to the Senate for final action.

The liberation campaign begins with the publication of the Rights of Man in New Granada. Later, Bolívar, at the Congress of Angostura, raised the idea of ​​Gran Colombia and began his journey of independence, which culminated in the Battle of Boyacá.

Movie sketch about one of the oldest villages in Dagestan — Koroda.

You must have passed through here at least once, says the voiceover commentary during the opening shots of this film. We learn that express trains pass through Meri without stopping and goods trains slow down, but don’t stop. Only the 7:01 commuter train stops, for just a minute, long enough for the teaching staff to alight. Dedicated to all those who live and work in isolated corners of the country, the film conjures up a small, remote world, virtually unknown to wider audiences.

"A visual poem to the glory of Venice by the gifted young Venezuelan painter, with music by Vivaldi." –G. Weinberg

A portrait of a young woman.

A color film showing the principal sources of air pollution in the United States and discussing the consequences.

About the development scheme for a residential area in the City. Barbican, which will be largely completed by 1973, will provide about 7,000 people with not only flats and houses but shops, schools and a wide range of cultural and other amenities.

A film about the relocation of Arnold Haukeland’s sculpture "Dynamikk" from Haukeland’s studio in Fallerkroken, Bærum, to the Oslo waterfront on 14 September 1966. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

What's the difference between regular people and hikers? A tourist film set in the Elbrus region in the summer of 1964.

A late-winter/early-spring sequence documenting lake-ice fishing, camp life, and subsistence practices.

Edie Sedgwick, in an extremely tight close-up of her face, takes a drag from her cigarette. After one minute, there is an in-camera edit to a medium close-up of her head. Later there is another in-camera edit to a medium shot reveals that she is seated in front of a coloured backdrop.

The documentary, intended as an election film, covers the key events of Urho Kekkonen's first presidential term. The President of the Republic of Finland makes state visits all over the world and travels frequently in Finland. The President's spouse Sylvi Kekkonen is also featured in the documentary. The President also comes to Tampere in July 1961, when King Olav of Norway visits Finland. President Kekkonen's first term was a time of many crises, but they are not really featured in the film. Instead, the ending is heartwarming: Urho picks a fallen autumn leaf from the ground and hands it to Sylvi.

The myths surrounding the Mi'kmaq god, Glooscap, are retold using the Cape Blomidon and Cape Split areas for the setting.

Paintings and graphic works of Slovenian artist Spacal. An attempt to break into the humanitarianism, synthesis and rhythm of his arts.

The aesthetic moves progressively from loose “underground” means using expressionistic camera movement, multiple exposures, droning sequences and shock cut towards a static, didactic form of “documentary” marked with long takes, minimal camera movement, a surface concentration on showing how things are. Being silent they operate on sheerly visual means. From the outset they grapple with socio-political issues with the stifling atmosphere of Catholic family life in Italy

Peter Jennings tells us about the hip new sport that all the ladies love - snowmobiling!