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A monograph about a leech, a member of the ringworm family. The film shows their living conditions, structure, reproduction, and presents some of the 300 known varieties with particular emphasis on the medicinal leech, due to its practical application in medicine.
Filmmaker Bo Bjelfvenstam travels alone with his camera through Nigeria by train. The train runs from Kano to Lagos, a journey that takes 36 hours.
Shows the safety hazards three boys encounter when they leave school. Pictures how they learn proper safety procedures to cope with several situations.
Documenting the construction of two major steelworks in Scotland.
Impressions from the Hamburg harbour with unconventional soundtrack and using a new photographic technique.
A day in the life
First transmitted in 1969, this documentary follows the construction of the world’s most advanced underground system. Macdonald Hastings narrates the story of one of the most complex tunnel engineering feats of its time. He reveals the isolation felt by the miners who spent six years burrowing deep beneath the streets of London, shows what they did beneath one of London's most famous department stores and explains why the ground at Tottenham Court Road had to be frozen during the hottest weeks of 1966. The result is a brave new world of transport with automated trains, two way mirrors, automatic fare collection and closed-circuit television, all choreographed by a computer programme played out by an updated version of a pianola located in a control room somewhere near Euston station.
Experimental film that establishes relationships of correspondence between light, abstract images and the rhythm of a percussion soundtrack. The result is a mysterious and hypnotizing work.
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.
Watching Sierra Leone Greets the Queen gives one a flavour of the hectic nature of royal tours; in just one week (from the 25th November to the 1st December 1961) the Queen and Prince Philip covered an exhausting array of sights, zooming around the country to take in the capital city Freetown, Bo, the Guma Dam, digging for diamonds (Sierra Leone’s biggest export), Hangha and observing the iron ore works at Marampa. The visit was politically significant - Sierra Leona had become independent from Britain in April the same year. Colonialism’s influence is felt throughout the film, and not just in the place names (Victoria Park, Queen Elizabeth II Quay) - the ‘day in the life of a Bo schoolboy’ seems not radically different from the British equivalent, while the ‘children’s rally’ consists of boys dressed impractically in boaters and blazers, and girls marching in gymslips.
The crucial nature of not allowing one's driving judgement to be blurred by the need to hurry.
A portrait of poet Hugh MacDiarmid.
Swiss journalist Peter Schmid describes his documentary as a sociological study. In his film, he takes a look behind the facade of St. Pauli. He contrasts the small group that earns a living in the entertainment industry with the many people who call St. Pauli home. The lives of the vast majority of St. Pauli’s residents are as middle-class as in any other district of Hamburg.
Short educational film about the inner workings of computers.
Short film by Daniel González.
A search for the secret heart of Stockholm
The documentary tells the story when more than a hundred students were expelled from the Banja Luka high school, allegedly because of poor grades, but it turned out that the school system didn't have enough funds to continue to have so many students in the school. Afterwards the film portrays other problems in the school system and in the Yugoslav society in general.
The film shows the bronze door of Bernward of Hildesheim in its individual fields. The door shows Old and New Testament stages of the events of salvation: from the creation of man to the fratricide of Abel; from the angel's proclamation to Mary to the presentation of Jesus in the temple, the capture of Jesus to the encounter of the risen Christ with Mary Magdalene. Careful camera work - supported by careful lighting - succeeds in doing justice to the monumental size of the work.
Short film about Helga, a young hairstylist.
The documentary, produced by the General Student Committee of Freie Universität Berlin, documents the brutal police crackdowns on anti-Shah demonstrators, preserves evidence, interviews eyewitnesses, and confronts thugs with film and photographic evidence. Thomas Giefer and Hans-Rüdiger Minow interpret the police assaults as “the first attempts to implement the state of emergency against an extra-parliamentary opposition seeking to prevent it.” The film aims to create a counter-public sphere and calls on viewers to stop the anti-democratic forces and resist.
Joe Kinsella talks about the problem of young people leaving Fogo Island after they finish their education.
Filmed on the farm of Gerald "Red" Markham, near Whitewater, Wisconsin, and narrated by Red's son Dale. He notes that Spring is a busy time of the year on a farm, but especially on a dairy farm that has many acres to be cultivated, fertilized, and planted in field corn as well as sweet corn. There are also trips to town, meetings of the LaGrange Four-H club, and a birthday party.
"I am a stranger here,” “I am a foreigner,” “I don't speak German” are all phrases that can be learned in the Goethe Institute’s elaborately produced 26-part language course short film series, Guten Tag (Good Day). With a great deal of artistic imagination, scenes around “Language, Culture, Germany” are staged and slowly intoned in an effort to bring the newly arrived closer. In this final short film the protagonist graduates.
In an earlier film, Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (Violin #1), Nauman played a single note on the violin as he walked around his studio. In this video work, he remains in a stationary position while he plays four strings together. (These have been tuned to the notes of the title, as opposed to the normal G, D, A, and E.) The camera is fixed and turned on its side.
Starts with a close-up of Sterling Morrison’s mouth, dragging heavily on a cigarette. When the camera zooms back we see Morrison in a pair of dark sunglasses. Made for projection behind the Velvet Underground in performance as part of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multi-media presentation.
The film discusses the significance of eggs in American cuisine, highlighting their nutritional value and versatility. It showcases the production of eggs at a California egg ranch, emphasizing the importance of freshness and proper cooking techniques. The film features chefs demonstrating how to prepare various egg dishes, including omelets, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, poached eggs, and boiled eggs, while also providing tips on selecting and storing eggs. The humorous attempts of a novice cook, George, illustrate common mistakes and the learning process in egg preparation.
In this film made for German television, Mack exposes his reflective sculptures and suit to sunlight in the Sahara, a north African desert. The film also shows the artist experimenting with different reflective and transparent materials, achieving various kaleidoscopic effects.
The ABCinema group dispatched Jørgen Leth to make the arrangements with Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, who good-naturedly put himself at their disposal. Relaxing on a bench in the garden of Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Krag is scrutinised by camera-wielding collective members almost like a model in a life-drawing class. Every possible angle, distance and framing is tried. The result is an image of the prime minister that is both fragmented and multi-facetted, describing his visual appearance as a man and an icon. At the same time, the ABCinema members film each other filming Krag, which gives the film a highly self-reflective character. Like "The Deer Garden," this is a film about a film being filmed. A showdown with the documentary portrait genre, "Jens Otto Krag" is devised according to the principle of keeping the material alive by not editing it but randomly piecing it together. (DFI)
"I shot this film, Italian Capriccio, as if it were my last. Now I see I had nothing to offer to anybody. No thought, no suggestion, nounderstanding. It is my conviction that this is a way to make this film uninteresting. I hope that Power will get people riled enough some day."
A reflection on the life and death of India's second Prime Minister, Lal Bhahadur Shashtri.
A visit into the home and studio of the artist-poet Leonard Baskin, describing the life and mind of the man.
From the sculpture of Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy.
This documentary is a zany portrait of the Grey Cup fever that hits the city of Ottawa, Ontario, during Grey Cup week. The film is also about the football game, where the Hamilton Tiger Cats faced the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and it is about Ti-Cats fans and their famous "Oskee Wee Wee", the magical chant with which they exhort their team to victory.
Documentary film produced by American Documentary Films and the Black Panther Party from 1968, honoring Huey P. Newton's struggle for African American civil rights, advocating for his release from jail and addressing issues of racism in American society. Features scenes from the funeral of Bobby Hutton and the Huey P. Newton Birthday Rally in the Oakland Auditorium on February 17th 1968, with speeches by: Bobby Seale (who explains the Black Panther Party's 10 Point Program in detail); Ron Dellums; James Foreman; Charles R. Garry; Eldridge Cleaver; Bob Avakian; H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael. Also includes views of police officers showing the weapons and armor they carry in patrol cars and of African Americans discussing racism in American society. This film was scripted and directed by Sally Pugh.
Ivar Lo-Johansson is interviewed and talks about life as a state worker and about his upbringing in Ösmo. Tells about the struggle in care for the elderly and about the life of the Roma in Sweden.
Illustrates principles for measuring distance, mass and time--the basic quantities in physical science. Emphasizes the importance of accuracy. Provides laboratory demonstrations.
An experimental mathematics film designed to elucidate the study of four-line conics.
Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.
A semi documentary short from the early sixties about young people looking for new friends in a club.
The film tells about the archeology museum in Armenia.
A look at the Women's Voluntary Service, informally known as the women in green.
Short documentary film by Ricardo Malheiro.
public information film providing a potted history of rabbits in the UK
A 300-ton Schnaveer type trailer created through the development of heavy goods transport technology at Nippon Express. This work records the work of transporting a 280-ton ultra-heavy transformer for substations in its complete state.
"Everything You Ever Wanted in a 16mm Projector" is an RCA promotional film made for the RCA 1600, probably in the mid-1960s. Yes, everything . . . brilliant pictures, superb sound, simple operation, smooth, safe film handling, instant performance, good looks, light weight, ruggedness — even an automatic threader that never touches the film !
The late 60s saw globetrotting filmmaker Tony Williams shoot and edit two films for Iranian director Mahmoud Khosrowshahi. Here Williams chronicles an east meets west festival held in the Iranian city of Shiraz. Williams’ love affair with music and montage helps lend pace and life to a film whose sonic interests range from Iranian lutes and Indian oboes to American Cathy Berberian, who is busy turning comic strips into song. A glimpse of cosmopolitan Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution, it includes a rare interview with New Yorker classical music critic Andrew Porter.
Filmreflex on the protest of the young anarchists at the Carrara congress and of the international political-literary avant-garde at the 1968 Buchmesse in Frankfurt: in these reflections on anarchy a thread of protesting discourse led by Cohn-Bendit emerges from the discussions and declarations pronounced at the anti-congress and at the Gegenbuchmesse, where meetings were promoted for the foundation of the students and workers league and international counter-publishing, contesting the bureaucratic organization of the congress and the peace prize awarded by the Buchmesse to the imperialist president Senghor: a speech for the anarchy of culture.
This educational film illustrates the structures and functions of the outer, middle and inner ear. Shows the importance of the semicircular canals as organs of balance.
This film draws attention to the new pattern that is emerging as the modernisation scheme progresses. It refers now and again to work shown in previous editions, and compares it with today's scene. This includes freight transport, marshalling yards, shipping and passenger services.
The cities, mountains, ice pack and tundra of Alaska are explored with camera and rifle.
National Educational Television" Wednesday, November 13, 1968 on NET's Brand New NET Journal Week on 1960 RCA TV. The land is rich with coal, yet its residents are denied adequate food, housing, or medical care. This, the Appalachian region, was the nation's first designated poverty area. This film focuses upon Eastern Kentucky where mechanization of the mines is replacing people and jobs. A lack of education and other working skills makes these residents prisoners of the land, as seen by a discerning interview with a local family.
The day of the washing of Christ the Redeemer, on top of Corcovado, made by the brothers, Dilson and Floriano, who once a year face this difficult task.
Student documentary film from FAMU in Prague.