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The positives and negatives of ball games in ankle-deep water.

A psychedelic time-painting using positive, negative, and black light illuminated alternate frames, moving to the beat of a steel guitar blues music track. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Amid an atmosphere of constant casual sex, a drug addict spirals downward.

A look at Europe's increasing need for electricity in the mid-1960s and how the challenge was being solved.

Nothing is every simple for the Pink Panther. For example, he heads to the beach for some relaxation. All that he wants to do is fish. Instead, he battles a bunch of worms and an angry crab. There's one worm who won't cooperate. This only leads to more problems with the militant crab. What's a panther to do?

We see numerous Disneyland attractions over the early years of Disneyland that were opened on, or around, official holidays.

Early in 1962, Claes Oldenburg offered a remarkable series of ten "Happenings" in a store on East Second Street in New York City. The audiences were kept small to heighten the intimacy of the experience. What is a "Happening"? It would seem impossible to describe afterwards. Yet Raymond Saroff compressed the rich and sprawling imagery of each evening-length work to the essential matter in hand... – Howard Rose (1962).

This is Hollywood, baby. The world's biggest whore. This town is filled with the depraved and the perverse, constantly seeking more Hedonistic Pleasures to satisfy their jaded appetites! Take keyhole peek - with "highly sophisticated miniature cameras" - into Hollywood's sexual underground circa 1969.

Bridegroom's life is thrown into chaos on his wedding day, Murphy's Law in action.

Examines the meager holiday season for poor families in the mountains of Kentucky. Reporter, Charles Kuralt, talks with the people about the disappointments their children will have on Christmas Day. The children sing carols and eat a hot meal, the only joy they will have at Christmas. A general store owner explains how automation has taken away jobs for men in coal mines. Shows people in line to receive surplus, government commodities. Emphasizes that poverty prevails year round, and shows the misery and discouragement of adults, the scant prospects of education for children, and the shacks that serve as homes.

UCLA student film

A portrait of the ultimate Chelsea Girl. Nico sits for over an hour while dazzling colored lights and psychedelic-patterned slides are projected onto her statuesque face. She breaks down in tears during the second reel, which made it into the final version of The Chelsea Girls.

The story of four aboriginals grappling with assimilation pressures and facing a changing future. Through the experience of a bark painter, a teaching assistant, a carpenter, and a tribal headman, we see the type of life each one lives, and the conflict of the old and the new which sets up tensions within each one, and in Aboriginal society.

Portrays all Americans as makers, with a rich tradition of pride in workmanship and satisfaction of needs.

Synopsis Part of a series of four studies the Cantrills made of the native flora of the Stradford Island, this one focusing on the Pandanus Pedunculatus.

"...I was playing it at the Cinematheque, and it got a lot of word of mouth in town. Everybody liked it because we used this really neat trick to put these images on Pat Barrington’s body as she was doing a belly dance. It was just perfect, and it was an the height of the LSD period and all the hippies loved it." - Ed DePriest

Centered around a vehement diatribe against pornography delivered by news reporter George Putnam, the film attempts to link explicit portrayals of human sexuality to the subversion and decline of American civilization, and briefly draws a parallel between pornography and Communist infiltration. Perversion for Profit illustrates its claims with still images taken from various softcore pornography magazines of the period-- though, 'sensitive' parts of the human anatomy have been obscured by colored bars. The film is in the public domain, and has become a popular download from the Prelinger Archives.

Mirza is interested in Laila, Ramadan's daughter, but her daughter and her family are against this relationship. Leila is interested in a young worker named Ahmed. Mirza and his servant Rajab catch a fish from the river, which has a legendary ring in its belly. By reading the writing on the ring, they encounter a giant who calls himself Jumbo, and Mirza asks the giant to provide them with a large fortune. After becoming rich, Mirza calls himself Qaroon and proposes to Leila. Laila's parents agree to her request, but Laila herself, who is against the medicine her mother gives her, agrees to the marriage.

Times Square at night... alien, death-like... negative images... –P. E. G.

Yalkut's film is the only record of Nam June Paik's legendary 1967 performance Opera Sextronique in New York, which was interrupted by the arrest of cellist Charlotte Moorman, who was performing topless. The incident led to Moorman's subsequent notoriety as the "Topless Cellist." This restaging of the first two movements of Opera Sextronique, performed by Moorman and filmed by Yalkut in a studio, was shot immediately after the arrest incident to present at Moorman's trial. (The judge did not permit it to be shown in court.)

Trouble ensues when an eccentric but simple-minded villager discovers he is the only living heir of a royal estate.

The story of a man who never attended Sarah Lawrence College but still made some impact.

Hundreds of hours of raw material shot by Nathan Axelrod, a pioneer of Israeli filmmaking before the State of Israel who documented the building of the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine – are the building blocks of the film before us: Meir Dizengoff riding his horse, Hannah Maron as a young girl trying to sell us shoelaces, the inauguration of the new port in Tel Aviv, settlers breaking ground in Hanita, the Habima Theater and Hannah Robina, the stars of the Matateh Theater, two kids tap-dancing, Ben Gurion and Shlonsky`s hair-dos, a Tel Aviv soccer match, the illegal immigration, scenic shots (swamps and desert), and more and more from the never-ending treasures of the “Carmel Films” archive.

King Minos is married to the vulgar and voracious Queen Scylla. Minos discovers that his long-lost niece is the rightful ruler of Greece and devises a plan to keep her from being found.

A Dracula parody where the camera moves to the eye of Count Flickerstein and the image changes to static-like patterns.

Shows Mississippi blues singer, Fred McDowell, singing and talking about his blues. Includes scenes of the area which helped to shape his country blues.

A wild series of daring "male" movies including "Marco of Rio," filmed entirely in Brazil!!

A home movie with Fulton behind the camera.

Pick-up artist Jerry Sloane is hired by mobster Ernie Pulaski to lure girls for his white slavery ring. Once Ernie gets his claws on them, the victims are turned over to mute Mama Lupo (she lost her tongue after tattling on some fellow schoolgirls), who tortures them in her dungeon and addicts them to heroin. Jerry unwisely falls for Ernie's daughter, resulting in a particularly painful, if appropriate, vengeance.

An extended interview with the four American sailors who deserted in protest against the war in Vietnam in 1967. Filmed in Japan, the interviews reveal much about how they reached their decision to desert.

Part one of a two-part portrait of the great Jazz composer and pianist. In 1968, we had the opportunity to spend time with Thelonious Monk and his musicians, following him in New York and Atlanta. In New York his quartet plays at the Village Vanguard and at recording sessions for Columbia Records; in Atlanta they appear at a Jazz Festival organized by George Wein. The members of the quartet were Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, and Ben Riley.

Rough House is prepared to resist any and all of Wimpy's attempts to cheat him out of hamburgers. Wimpy's con job begins with buying a single raw oyster.

Recordings of a speech Bobby Seale held in Scandinavia intercut with roving streets and images.

Featuring Wolfgang Domke. Transfixed at a table, a man drinks a lot of alcohol, eats a lot of beets and cream cakes in order to make himself vomit. During this hour long process he becomes disillusioned and talks about his concept of the future.

A rare 1963 documentary on the life of Norma Jean Baker, who would soon and forever be remembered as Marilyn Monroe.

Button Happening is Nam June Paik's earliest extant tape, and possibly his first tape ever. Recorded in 1965 on the day he acquired his first Sony Portapak camera, this previously unknown work has recently been rediscovered and restored. Recorded on computer tape, this technically fragile piece documents a single performance action — Paik buttoning and unbuttoning his jacket. A spirit of conceptual Fluxus humor underlies this seminal recording.

Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the consumer society side by side with pictures of female models

A 16mm silent four minute reel from ca. 1964 by Barbara Rubin. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

There is a focus on the need for physical, mental and social health to be fully developed in order for humans to function properly within society. The film is aimed at an adolescent audience who are independently confronting developments in these aspects of their well-being for the first time.

The hills around the mining town of Rock City are infested with outlaws. Sheriff Preston, a gentleman sheriff, prefers to disarm the outlaws with cunning strategy instead of using his gun.

Steve and Ann Bundy move into an expensive new apartment after the husband gets a big pay raise. Unfortunately, Steve's soon stricken with a mysterious ailment and becomes bedridden. Unable to find employment, and with the bills piling up, Ann runs into a seedy pimp who suggests a way in which she could make a lot of money in a short time.

Documentary shows Ken Russell at work on various BBC TV documentaries, with clips from Diary of a Nobody, The Debussy Film, Always on Sunday, Don't Shoot the Composer, Elgar and behind the scenes directing of Isadora Duncan. He discusses his working methods and filmmaking philosophy and is also shown at home entertaining his daughter Victoria.

The film is based on a real-life incident of horrendous horse mutilations that occurred in Davie, Florida in the early 1960s. It takes a fictionalized approach to the residents attempting to solve the mystery of who is committing the crime. This film is considered lost after the negatives were stolen from the director.

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

A film made with found newsreel footage combined with sequences of a flashing light bulb. It is projected with a real flashing bulb hanging in front of the screen as a film performance.

Highlights from the race,

In EIN TRAUM DER LIEBENDEN [A DREAM OF LOVERS], Monk meanders through a maze of Minoan bull-leaping, satyrs and revelatory rainbows.

This film examines the changing economy of Canada's Atlantic provinces and the factors that contributed to the expansion of industry in the early to mid-1960s. The film focusses primarily on the choice confronting many inshore fishermen--whether to stay with the free but frugal life that their nets provide, or to move to the city.

Erotic movie

A married couple doesn't communicate.

"INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain the lost-eye consciousness." - Jonas Mekas

Promotional film extolling the wonders to be seen at the New York World's Fair.

Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing "manifestations" with a plaster cast. A thousand ants and one million dollars in cash. When he confronts the feminist writer, Jane Arden, sparks fly. "You are my Slave! I am not your slave. Everybody is my slave." Dali recalls his meeting with Freud, "The last human relationship ever" About his wife, 'But for Gala I would be lying in a gutter somewhere covered with lice" Jim Desmond's dazzling cinematography captures the great artist painting as Flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata performs. Dali in New York is a rare treat for anyone who loves film and the living theatre of Dali's surreal universe.

Brazilian cirurgy doc

This appears to be a pilot for a series that never happened.

Color UCLA Student Film shot on 8mm film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "A whimsical entertaining psychedelic dada film, this is a New American Cinema experiment in the use of multiple imagery, not in superimposition, but in simultaneous projection on individual areas of the screen [...]"--Creative Film Society 16 mm. film rental & sale catalogue, 1975.

Oysters Are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations. Utter foolishness abounds in short skits that range from an employment interview with an applicant whose previous experience has left him physically uncontrollable, and an unsuspecting golfer who arrives for a first lesson, to scenes of mayhem with a hammock and a chinese lantern masquerading as an artificial kidney.

A down-and-outer appears to need a job in the worst way. He looks in the want ads and finds a few businesses seeking applicants. He applies. Is he successful? Well, let's just say he gets something, but not exactly what you expect.

On a November day a man deposits a flower garland for his old car at the junk yard. But the place appears to be a labyrinth in which he gets lost.