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The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail contributes to a smooth, comfortable journey.

A primary school break is a great opportunity to observe children's behavior. Contrary to the film title, school breaks are full of sounds and voices, small and big dramas.

The genre of film-cipher (invented by the documentary classic Chris Marker) is represented by Perm story with our working title "The Quest". The sequence of seemingly random episodes is gradually perceived as a sequence of signs encrypting the message: no kidding, in essence, it's a thriller which starts from peering into the cat's eyes. Then we meet a stern gentleman with a cigarette nodding to us; a daring kid cuts a piece of plywood on his dashing head; close-ups of unknown faces… All for good reason.

Colour, silent film recording people, costumes, rites and festivities seen at a Durbar, which celebrates the culmination of Muslim festivals of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Lyman Orig. is a silent structuralist film that explores the architectural landscape of Chicago, IL, juxtaposing them with advertisements from major corporations.

This short film offers a rare look at Noam Chomsky in the late 1960s as he speaks candidly about the war in Vietnam and articulates critiques that have an eerie resonance in the present day. Includes a draft-refusal demonstration, and material about the indictments against Benjamin Spock, William S. Coffin Jr and others.

Scenes of traditional dancers of bourrée, filmed in the village of Les Hermaux, in the Lozère region, on September 12, 1965.

Declassified pentagon documentary film showing the nuclear test program back in 1962, released to the public in 1998.

A camera enters all the organs of a human body and explains the way they function.

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

Remains of Roman settlements on the bottom of the sea near the Istrian coast are an important and precious monument of Roman architecture and civilization. Archeologists and divers searching and studying the sites.

About an old lighthouse keeper, his son, and his attachment to his native land.

Documentary recording of protests in Ljubljana, hidden for a long time and hidden in a Viba film store in a box entitled "Balkanski Hokol".

The vineyards of Bagnara Calabra (in the province of Reggio Calabria) are located on rocky cliffs overlooking the sea. Small terraces were built by local fishermen over centuries of hard work, on days when fishing was not possible. The short film describes the life of a couple of farmers/fishermen divided between the vineyard and fishing at sea.

16mm short that shows rhytmic motions of reflections spreading across sea waves, set to jazz tune.

A survey of an area of Canada from the city of Quebec.

Documentary about Don Quijote's routes.

Sterling Morrison, bass guitarist of The Velvet Underground, is filmed in an extreme close-up of his left eye, which looks around in all directions. Halfway through the film, the camera zooms out to a full view of his half-lit face.

Produced to introduce the functions and design properties of the Eames Contract Storage units. This innovative use of live-action and animation accompanies an Eames script which includes the famous Eames quote “The details are not details, they made the architecture – the gauge of the wire, the selection of the wood, the finish of the castings – connections, the connections, the connections. It will, in the end, be these details that provide service to the customer and give the product its life.” Featured in the Festival International du Film de Montreal, 1961.

A story about the main beer of the USSR from Kuibyshev - "Zhiguli".

A gentle, meditative film about some of the surviving examples of those thousands of mills that, one hundred years ago, were at work all over England.

An emerging solidarity community on strike: In 1965, Mexican farm workers stood up against the unregulated capitalism in the agricultural sector and the racism of the white land owners.

A look at the phenomenon of Saturday football through the eyes of fans watching Tottenham Hotspur. The film looks at the men who are the chief actors in the Saturday football drama, both off duty and in training.

Autumn vacation at the NVA recreation center "Walter Ulbricht" in Prora on the island of Rügen—swimming in October, long walks, trips to Saßnitz and Bergen, a visit to the VEB Kreidewerk Rügen chalk factory, puppet theater for the children in the afternoon, and dancing in the evening.

Film prepared for a Florida press conference held on April 30, 1969.

Prince Phillip drives a Warship loco at an exhibition of locomotive development held at Marylebone Station.

Short experimental documentary about an abandoned town.

Authentic documentary film about first four months of little bears’ lives.

Explores the coral reef and the ocean floor showing sea anemones, squids and jellyfish. Explains their dependence upon one another, how they get their food and how they protect themselves.

In 1969, The Department of City Planning in New York City developed a new city-wide plan. This documentary, produced and written by John Peer Nugent and narrated by notable urbanist William H. Whyte, was released on public television to provide a behind-the-scenes peek at the planning process. There's a lot that is gone from contemporary New York in this documentary: a gritty Hell's Kitchen, a robust Model Cities program, and acres of slums in Bedford-Stuyvesant. But there's a lot that, for better or worse, is still the same: poverty and prosperity, diversity and wealth, greed and good intentions.

Documentary about Nepal and its path into the 20th century.

A real labour of love, this film is a fine demonstration of how amateur filmmakers could play a part in campaigning for local services. With the impending Beeching Report of 1963 there could hardly have been a better plea for the retention of the Settle to Carlisle railway and all its services than this traversing of the whole length of the line by train and by foot, stopping off to reveal its many wonders and recording the fascinating history of the line and of those who built it.

As in his photographs, Winston Vargas films evocative portraits of people far from home, caught ‘between two islands’—the Dominican Republic and Manhattan. 16 mm.

Experimental documentary by Johan van der Keuken about Dutch painter and poet Lucebert.

This film shows events in the biennial Festival of Arts and the annual Flower Day of 1968. Adelaide celebrated Flower Day annually from 1938 to 1975 and it made a return in 2021. The footage includes a ‘welcome said with flowers’ to performers Marlene Dietrich, Marcella Reale, Morag Beaton, Lucero Tena, and the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Orchestra. There is also a look inside the Art Gallery’s display for the 5th Adelaide Festival of Arts. This is quite possibly the moment the phrase “Mad March” was coined!

Filmed between 1967-68 in 16mm, the documentary is a propaganda film funded by the Tokyo Headquarters of the Japanese Socialist Party to support governor Minobe Ryōkichi, elected in 1967.

A purely acoustic collage whose sounds seem by nature indefinable and yet somehow organic. They mesmerise us, occasionally make us shiver at some unknown thing. Gravity seems to be suspended. This piece needs no images, because they will intuitively materialise before our inner eye like thousands of hallucinations.

A film created from slides depicting scenes of downtown Dallas. The goal of the film was to create awareness of the immediate need to design for livability in Dallas, with a focus on transportation, development, and the Trinity River.

This film documents a play given at the March 28th, 1969 abortion rally by some very angry women. A beauty contestant is primed by her mother, her teacher, her boyfriend, an ad man, and a capitalist for the roles she must fulfill to be a successful winner.

Fantastic, supposedly inconspicuous animal observations with the help of sophisticated special techniques about the causes and scientific connections of the regenerative ability from the point of view of cell biology, explained using the example of freshwater polyps. The short film was awarded an honorary diploma at the International Festival of Scientific and Technical Film in Belgrade in 1962.

A series of interviews with the leaders of the Paris riots of May and June, 1968.

About cartoonist Pál Pusztay's character Jucika.

Several teenagers following a professional apprenticeship. Eleven young girls and boys from different parts of French-speaking Switzerland.

Art, dance, music and poetry became a vital necessity for the liberated areas of South Vietnam in their daily efforts to survive the bombings and napalming of the Vietnam War. In this moving film, teenagers in the NLF liberated zones make beautiful puppets from the remains of downed U.S. warplanes. They work their puppet shows in dramatic ballet form. Armed with these puppets, they travel through the countryside, performing for village children even as U.S. planes circle overhead.

Short documentary about a house that will soon be demolished.

Legendary Bay Area surf photographer Fred Windisch's surf and psychedelia film from 1969: The Natural Art is an expression of the lifestyles, sports, art and surfing at the end of the 60s era. The film blends surfing footage with images of rock concerts in Golden Gate Park, yoga exercises and skiing with splashes of psychedelia thrown in. Fred’s artistic sensibilities and intimate knowledge of surfing and the blossoming intellectual movement are brought together in somewhat of a period piece that does an excellent job of capturing the feeling of the time. Local Pedro Point surfer Dick Keating is featured in much of the surfing footage, where he captured performing innovative maneuvers that few have repeated since.

Randy Bourscheidt, preppily dressed in a tie and tweed jacket, looks up and down, then shyly faces the camera, trying not to smile. He bites his lips, grins, relaxes, and then brushes the hair out of his eyes.

An account of the atmospheric nuclear testing campaign in French Polynesia (preparations, detonation, and analysis). During this campaign, which opened on May 8, 1967, three device tests were conducted. This film successively presents: the installations (Papeete, Hao, the Land and Sea centers, Moruroa); the Naval assets (base ships, LCTs, Ouragan, Rance, Garonne, De Grasse); the meteorological and transmission resources; the firing range; maritime surveillance; briefings; computers; and the tests Altaïr (June 5), Antarès (June 27), and Arcturus (July 2).

A visit to the Julemærkehjem at Lindersvold, 1966.