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Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.

4 field researchers are stranded in the African Sahara.

“The frame itself, which divides what is present to consciousness from what is absolutely elsewhere, is tempered here by the breath, tremor, heartbeat of the perceiver. People this given space, if you will, with images of your own devising.” – HF

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first performed in 1977. The play criticizes the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness. Its title derives from the popular mnemonic used by music students to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef. The filming was undertaken at a live performance at Wembley Conference Centre in April 1978, conducted by Previn.

The history of Platypus Duck, the oldest surviving mammal (And a mixed-up one at that...), and a quest of one such Platypus Duck and his kids to rescue his wife after she gets swept away in a flood to Sydney.

A group of Sephardic perform the "Trial of Jesus" in an ancient temple and before a baffled audience. The purpose of the play is to understand whether the condemnation of Jesus was justified or not, since they are not resigned to accept that history found guilty the Jewish people.

A man named Clint enters a solar-powered van called Vandora into a competition called Freakout.

A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged.

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Elvis In Concert is a posthumous 1977 TV special starring Elvis Presley. It was Elvis' third and final TV special, following Elvis (aka The '68 Comeback Special) and Aloha From Hawaii. It was filmed during Presley's final tour in the cities of Omaha, Nebraska, on June 19, 1977, and Rapid City, South Dakota, on June 21, 1977. It was shown on CBS on October 3, 1977, two months after Presley died. It is one of the few videos of Elvis which remain unlikely to ever be released for home viewing and is only available in bootleg form.

A film centered around Joe Nameth.

The first part shows the progression from high tide to low tide in 15 minutes. The second, equally long part follows the changes from high tide to low tide. The artist's special work consisted of defining a complex recording plan (score) that had to be precisely described. The end result is a multi-layered, flowing film plot that does not depict a linear progression of time, but juxtaposes successive moments simultaneously.

A narrative self-discovery theme done in real time in Art Nouveau style.

Smash-Mouth returns 15 years later to kill the cheerleaders who laughed when he was relentlessly beaten by the football team.

In order to save money on golf lessons, Charlie Beary tries to teach his wife Bessie how to play the game.

Filmed between 1959 and 1974 using pioneering time-lapse techniques, Hilary Harris’ experimental documentary presents New York City as a living organism. Through a dynamic montage of traffic, crowds, and urban movement, the film explores the parallels between the rhythms of city life and the processes of the human body.

Explores the visual art of Saul Bass and his contributions to film credits.

Johnny Stiletto, godfather to the Cauliflower Cupids gang (six world boxing champions), decides to leave crime so his daughter can have a better life.

Tethered to one another by a rope, two figures standing on parallel escalators perform five ways of being together—“against each other,” “with each other,” “to each other,” “for each other,” and “each other”—challenging expectations of how people can and should coexist in public space.

Concluding that “nothing is too small for a revolution,” Macdonald proposes that simple things like listening, reading to one’s children, and crying can be revolutionary acts.

A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.

Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.

In medieval Spain, an young, traveling philosopher tragically falls in love with his pupil, when he is hired by an uneducated Lord to tutor his beautiful wife.

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.

A young rebellious girl hooks up with a biker gang. Her father hires a private detective to find her and bring her back. The detective goes undercover as a biker to search for her.

The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.

Procol Harum, best known for their world-wide smash hit of 1967, A Whiter Shade of Pale, are the stars of a 55-minute special program. In 1967 a new pop group emerged with the hit song, A Whiter Shade of Pale. They were The Procol Harum. We meet the members of the group and see them perform their hit along with other numbers, including Captain Clack, Whisky Train, and Your Overcoat Is Too Long. The group's leader, Gary Brooker, comments throughout. Shown on the ABC and in the UK on BBC. Tracklist : A Whiter Shade Of Pale Good Captain Clack Whiskey Train Homburg Piggy Pig Pig In Held Twas In I Pilgrims Progress Dead Man's Dream Nothing That I Didn't Know

A young woman sits on a bench in a baroque park. The motion of the wind in the leaves, in her hair, and also the flutter of her eyelashes, the opening of her lips, her imperceptible smile are all made visible with the absolutely static camera. A large baroque birdcage symbolizes a hopeless emotional situation. (Friedl vom Gröller)

JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their children to search for the indefinable joy he feels he is missing from his life.

A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski

Backwoods officers try to uncover clues about the mysterious death of a young woman at a dude ranch.

A young virgin escapes the clutches of an evil step dad and is 'rescued' by two seasoned prostitutes. They show her the ropes and begin making some money, until the 18 carat virgin starts earning more than the seasoned veterans.

Joanna Lumley and Penny Brahms star as notorious prostitutes Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley faced with the challenge of seducing the seemingly impossible in this 1970s sex comedy

Folk singer Judy Collins performs to a BBC studio audience in 1973. Songs performed are Joni Mitchell compositions Chelsea Morning and Both Sides Now, Tom Paxton's The Hostage, Leonard Cohen's Suzanne, Sandy Denny's Who Knows Where The Time Goes, and the self-penned, semi-autobiographical My Father.

Led by pianist / singer Gary Brooker, this 1971 Beat Club Workshop showcases the band at the height of their career. The show features BJ Wilson on drums, Chris Chopping on organ, Dave Ball on guitar, Allan Cartwright on bass, and Gary Brooker on piano and vocals. Superb musicianship and artistry come blazing through in these rare and exciting performances of artists and groups of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. These are the international stars that were part of the televised monthly music show Beat Club and MusikLaden. Filmed in Germany at the television studios of Radio Bremen, MusikLaden (originally known as Beat Club) became a TV classic not only for the fans, but also for the artists who took part. There was no time limitation on song length so artists were able to perform live concert versions of their most popular hit songs.

April 10th, 1978 - Dallas Convention Center - Dallas, TX

An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.

A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.

The 12-year-old Aneta and Boy feel that there is something like a first love between them. The kids are traveling to the countryside together. They get to two of Aneta's grandparents - one of her grandmothers was married three times. Aneta's favorite grandfather is her grandmother's third husband. He is not her real grandfather, but she loves him because he likes to fantasize. He taught Aneta a magic game - to light a match and imagine anything in flame. Her favorite grandfather dies. Aneta mourns him for a long time, lights matches but no use.

Documentary about marijuana use, culture and law enforcement by future porn superstar director Alex de Renzy.

Double-crossing, murder, sex and intrigue plague a plantation-owning family in the South during the Civil War.

Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.

An Indian fakir's magic rope falls in love with the Pink Panther's tail. (Reissue of "The Pink of Arabee" 1976).

As an alternative to being drafted, a young man is given the job of fathering 2000 children for a future perfect race.

Portrait of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson based on her poems, letters and notes. This is a taped broadcast of a live one-woman performance.

Two English kids meet their friend Anoop Singh and his baby elephant Ranee. The nasty circus owner wants the elephant for his circus and the children decide that they must prevent this.

As her 25th anniversary approaches, Norma Michaels realizes that her marriage to her dentist husband Malcolm has become boring. Seeking independence, Norma turns to her friend Fay while Malcolm receives advice from his swinging associate Greg.

The Langley Punks must rescue their sweethearts from unspeakable aluminum foil monsters from beyond.

Don Pedro and his men (Teddy Roosevelt Roughriders) have returned from the wars. After Beatrice turns down his proposal, Don Pedro decides to matchmake her with Benedick (her former boyfriend), but she being an independent-minded, bicycle-riding Suffragette type, it's going to take a bit of trickery.

Invading aliens are taking over the brains of folks in a small town. The head leech is a wad of black tinfoil with a couple of white thumbtacks for eyes. Others are spidery-like rubber things pulled along by strings.

Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.

Directed by Werner Nekes.

The filmmaker describes his work as 'a single take, fixed camera meditation on a dead rabbit on Highway No. 1, outside Iowa City.' As the viewer stares at the almost still-life, the elements of composition come together in sad juxtaposition; the silence of death is set off against the impersonal whizz of passing cars, their momentary appearance in the frame creating almost subliminal flashes of bright metallic color.

A young girl's special love for a horse helps them both.

Grab some safety pins, practice your sneer and get ready to revisit Toronto's thriving punk scene. THE LAST POGO documents the raucous 1978 punk concert held in Toronto's legendary Horseshoe Tavern-a night of unhinged music and unbridled mayhem. On December 1, 1978, legendary Toronto concert promoters Gary Topp and Gary Cormier-better known as The Garys-presented The Last Pogo, a rollicking, riotous concert at the venerable Horseshoe Tavern. On the bill were seminal bands from Toronto's punk rock scene: The Scenics, The Cardboard Brains, The Secrets, The Mods, The Ugly, The Viletones and Teenage Head. During the concert, the frenetic energy of 800+ thrashing fans in the club boiled over and a near-riot ensued. Filmmaker Colin Brunton was there with a camera crew to capture it all, from the irreverent punk musicians and the slam-dancing audience to the police who tried to stop the show and the firefighters called in to escort people from the premises.

Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.

Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Growing up among drug pushers, prostitutes, and pimps, Billie Jean still has some things going for her: fierce pride, a loyal friend named Fish, and, at last, enough savings to visit her father 1200 miles away in prison.

Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.

Sally is a photographer with an eye for the erotic.