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Alexander Calder's La Grande Voile was erected on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in 1966 with the artist directing the work. As the spectacular steel forms of this monumental stabile rise, it is filmed with time-lapse and verité photography. One can see that the structure owes its spare elegance to the precision of its design and construction. Calder remains absorbed in quiet concentration as skeptical students and bemused bystanders observe the somewhat peculiar event.

Riley Walker arrives at an Italian villa with an injured hand; he had cut his hand whilst attempting to get into the neighbouring villa belonging to his aunt. He introduces himself to the residents and stays until his aunt, Mrs Panzack, returns. Speaking to his aunt it is revealed that the visit was a ruse to meet the occupants of the house and in particular Maggie Brown, who is in possession of some diamonds they are interested in.

Story about a spoilt girl and a guy who changes her and saves her from killers.

Follows one autumn leaf as it falls from a branch, floats through air currents, and drifts along a quiet forest stream among patterns of sun and shade. Natural sounds and music, without words, accent the beauty of the photography.

Told in the Maysles’ intimatible style, IBM: A SELF PORTRAIT captures the future corporate juggernaut at an early stage of their development. The emphasis here is on the human ingenuity behind the technology industry-- the colorful technicians and executives working together to create a future design for living.

An account of the rehabilitation of an electrician who is totally and permanently blinded by an accident. Shows how his courage and efforts help him to complete training under federal, state, and private programs which enables him to return to his job.

A young woman arrives at a resort and is soon pursued by a young man. Initially, he appears to be infatuated with her, but it becomes clear he simply wants to seduce her.

One of the earliest music videos, the film shows various pictures of San Francisco in the psychedelic era, with rapid cuts and freeze-frames, and Pink Floyd's music.

The woman of the house notices that the dog Bobo hardly touches his dog food. So she takes him to a canine psychiatrist. He recommends she and her husband treat Bobo as "one of the family". That means the man has to tolerate it when Bobo takes the evening paper and one of his master's cigars. But he won't let him watch his dog adventure show when there's a baseball game on or have the whole steak at dinner. And if Bobo wants to really be a part of the family, wait till he gets assigned some chores.

Pinku from 1965.

To show the habitat, life cycle and typical activities of the Barn Swallow.

Hunky businessman Cliff and his sweet wife Mindy move from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Los Angeles, California. They take up residence in an apartment complex where several lovely young ladies also live.

Percy visits a store and buys a do-it-yourself hi-fi kit. His pesky neighbor Ralph insists on helping put it together.

The sory of the railroad's roll in getting beef to your local market

Breer’s animation explores the theme and variation of the drawn line: a line in constant movement and transformation. With a very sketchy style, he demonstrates how a simple, abstract image can fill and satisfy the imagination of the film viewer. - MoMA

First transmitted in 1969, this programme shows the life and career of military musicians. It follows young bandsmen recruiting as junior musicians at the Guards Depot, Pirbright, to becoming regimental musicians at Kneller Hall Military School of Music.

A dance performance salute to choreographer-dancer Lester Horton with Alvin Ailey, Carmen de Lavallade and James Truitte, all former members of his company. They perform various works by Horton.

Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.

Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public television and the emerging field of video art in the U.S. WGBH commissioned artists — Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, James Seawright, Thomas Tadlock and Aldo Tambellini — to create original works for broadcast television. Their works explored the parameters of the new medium, from image processing and interactivity to video dance and sculpture.

Musical salute to New Orleans jazz great Pete Fountain.

A documentary about Peanuts creator Charles Shulz.

Documentary feature, re-edited for English-speaking countries, that gratuitously examines customs around the globe, focusing on repulsive sights and strange bits of knowledge about human customs

During the 1960s, Tom DAVENPORT was commissioned by National Geographic to film in Taiwan. This was his first documentary, in which he captured philosopher NAN Huai-chin practicing Tai-chi at Taiwan’s northeastern coast. Shot with a 16mm camera, the film features sound created by composer Tom JOHNSON.

A Luno the White Stallion short.

When Canada was preparing to welcome the world to Expo 67 in Montreal, two artists who contributed their talents were Inuit stonecarvers Kumukluk Saggiak and Elijah Pudlat. They decorated a giant mural in the Canadian pavilion, Katimavik (the meeting place). This film shows the two carvers at work on their wall and also conveys some of their impressions of life in suburbia.

Documentary about high rises.

A mad scientist who conducts brain-swapping experiments is trying to find a subject to cross his pet ape with. Fate intervenes when Woody Woodpecker arrives at his doorstep selling magazines.

Speedy Gonzales and a little boy mouse watch a broken television set in a junkyard using their imaginations to create a picture...

Bilingual film study from the Baylor Theatre in Texas. French mime Étienne Decroux is shown performing various routines, including man of sport (l'homme de sport), mobile statuary (la statuaire mobile), man of the drawing room (l'homme de salon) and illusionism (l'illusionnisme).

An early short film directed by Peter Weir in 1968, centered on the life of a bird enthusiast who becomes a Christian evangelist, and described in archival sources as a surrealistic documentary.

Two cabdrivers accidentally get caught up in criminal/gang activity.

The multi-award winning animation film in which abstract and representational figures constantly metamorphose into each other, accompanied by electronically manipulated and electronic sounds. Two artists spent over a year of full time to execute the more than 6000 drawings used, many of which were created while under the influence of hallucinogens.

A photographic art-film consisting of 42 one by one C-prints edited together and projected over roughly 49 minutes.

A married woman pursues an affair with her abusive husband's best friend and tries to keep her secret life going despite her personal life collapsing around her.

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

A scientist carelessly dumps some toxic waste into a river. The gardener at a nudist camp drinks the water, turns into a monster and attacks all the (female) nudists.

"New York City! Times Square! Broadway! The pulse, the heartbeat, the main artery of the theater throughout the world. To millions of young girls throughout America, it's more than a place. It's a symbol. A state of mind. A beckoning, coaxing Lorelei to the stage-struck everywhere. In endless numbers they flock like moths to the elusive candle of Broadway success, a dream that sometimes does come true..."

“I usually avoid the term ‘film poem,’ because it was overused in the ‘40s and ‘50s. But somehow it fits Phases of The Moon; it is a film poem and nothing else. A small, miniature film poem, a jewel, if the word masterpiece is too stuffy.” (Jonas Mekas, 1973)

A teenager, blamed for the terror befalling a Florida neighborhood, sets out to find the real culprits, who are in fact a punk gang leading local delinquents on a nihilistic spree of destruction and mayhem.

The Vietnam War protest movement from the student point of view is the basis for this documentary shot in the San Francisco Bay area and dealing mainly with a protest march from the University of California to the Oakland Army Terminal in 1966.

A collection of short films by Pat Rocco.

After a jeweler is shot dead, Michael Gray is taken into custody. He is defended by the experienced Anton Rossouw.

Rashid, the spitting image of legendary Zimbo, plans to steal beautiful Princess Zulina's treasure. Meanwhile, the real king of the jungle and Leela find young Mala in the wreckage of a small plane and decide to adopt him as their son.

Short film about marginal scrap dealers. After viewing it, the O.R.T.F. refuses to broadcast the film for its "pessimistic darkness".

Debut film by Heiny Srour, lost during the Lebanese civil war.

A woman remembers the moments with her lover and believes she's made herself ridiculous. She's become a clown.

A protest film, reminiscent in part of the famous Picasso painting entitled "Guernica". Expressed in child-like Crayola drawings.

In a typical traveling circus, all the workers have problems over their heads; A puppeteer named Magnus controls his troupe like marionettes until a good clown arrives on the scene to help relieve them of their burdens.

hong kong film

Popeye, Olive and Wimpy take an unintended trip to the moon, which is inhabited by cheese-people and tyrannized by the Big Cheese.

Directed by Geoffrey Jones.

"N.B. Sound On Cassette. Sync beginning of sound with image before man in a red sweater. Generally, start cassette while film leader is seen" - Filmmakers Coop description

A Session with the Committee

A young man hires a muscular masseur. In a blackened room, the handsome bodybuilder gives his client a memorable massage, displaying his very own technique involving some karate chop moves, and making the man fantasize about role play.

A look at Greenwich Village, produced by the Cotton Producers Institute.

A New York salesman goes on a self-destructive spree of sex after finding his wife cheating on him.

Japanese mouse Hashimoto and his American friend G.I. Joe went out to the night out, but end up getting chased by cat, and people throwing plates at them.

Ashoke and Mala get married under unavoidable circumstances, but his conservative father does not accept her as his daughter-in-law. When Mala finds no help coming from sheepish Ashoke, she vows to set things right herself.