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A series of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins.

Chief of police fakes his death and returns as a masked avenger. On horseback. And stuff.

A performative variation on "Twice a Man” side by side, one running forward, the other backward. The sound is maintained only on the projector playing the film forward. At the midpoint of the film, for one very brief moment, both screens offer the same image.

Stepping Stones - Abstract drama played out in light, color and sound - is made up entirely of original vintage light show projections, excerpts of which were featured in the 2005 Visual Music exhibition at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

Identical cousins with mismatched Odd Couple personalities.

Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane.

“Tomorrow’s Promise is a film about vacantness. Which physically does ‘begin’, reversed, upside down on the screen […] suddenly another such position is taken (not in reverse), this time by a male figure and soon, in this same section, the girl of the reversed image reappears posed in a different way; a way obsessed by ‘mood’. Then a technical play of in-the-camera-editing occurs, more intense, brighter than in the first, reversed section. There are several inter-cuts which serve, in this and each subsequent section unto the end, as relative links into the final section: which is actually the ‘story’. The story the protagonist and her hero try to tell in their way is apophysis; except that ‘pictures’, clear visions take the place of words. My film could have been edited with precise tensions and a lucid straight narrative, but it was my aim to ‘re-create’ the protagonist of my personal life.” - Edward Owens

Juan and Andres meet in the Spanish Civil War. One is follower of Franco regime and the other Republican. They hate to death, but by circumstances the have to stay overnight under the same roof. This situation will lead them to know each other better and think a little differently.

An animated parody of the American western movies.

One of the most important films in Malanga's body of work is his series of movie portraits of Andy Warhol from 1964-65. Comprised of seven individual 3-minute reels, Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man is the most intimate portrait of the artist ever captured to film. - The Waverly Press, Gerard Malanga's Secret Cinema

The house where young love dwells.

A light-hearted history of Britain's railways, seen through old prints, photographs and rare pieces of archive film as well as modern material to tell the story from Stephenson's Rocket to the new expresses. The film was made originally for a national children's competition. Pop-singer Joe Brown, a former railwayman, gives a happy-go-lucky narration as he comperes his group as they play railway songs in the Museum of British Transport at Clapham, where many of the most interesting items of railway history could then still be seen.

Polish expatriate Janusz Piekalkiewicz put together this documentary about his homeland's struggle in World War II from 1939 to 1945. He draws from his personal experience as a participant in the Warsaw ghetto uprising and his incarceration in a Nazi concentration camp. Piekalkiewicz, who fled Poland in 1957, also focuses on the terror of the Stalin regime that followed the war, and newsreel footage is used to set the stage for the 1939 agreement between Hitler and Stalin. Piekalkiewicz maintains the film is not anti-Russian but admits it is definitely anti-Stalin in its presentation. He also points out that there were more casualties in Poland than the combined total of casualties suffered by the Western allies.

Bob Dylan's screen test for Andy Warhol, filmed January 23, 1965.

A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.

This FDA film explores the history of hallucinogenic drugs, and specifically the effects and therapeutic uses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Combining graphics that suggest a hallucinogenic experience, snippets of interviews with users (who explain their reasons for taking the drug) and doctors, and taped sessions of research with volunteers, the film delves into the destructive as well as possible positive uses of the drug.

Honey is supposed to shine Cousin Maggie's shoes by hand, but thank to Teany Meany's bad advice, Honey put's a potion on the shoes by mistake.

A film by Frank Zappa made for the Dilexi Foundation on KQED

Samantha, beloved by Spring, is captured by a butterfly hunter.

Swifty is a salesman at a suit store where his job is on the line for being rude to the customers. He has one more chance to make things right. Shorty is looking for a new suit and attempts to get help from Swifty, but he gets the runaround.

Samadhi is both mystical and mysterious, an incredible fusion of movement, sound and colour. Belson notes the influence of his study and practice of Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism on the creation of Samadhi. The film is inspired by the principles of yogic meditation: the movement of consciousness towards samadhi (union of subject and object), the fusion of atma (breath and mind), a state which reveals the divine force of kundalini, a bright white light we discover at the end of Samadhi. The Tibetan Book of The Dead is the inspiration behind Belson’s use of colour in Samadhi, corresponding to descriptions of the elements of Earth, Fire, Air and Water in the book. —Sophie Pinchetti, The Third Eye

While commissioned to create a promotional film for Outward Bound, an organization dedicated to connecting young people with outdoor experiences, Fulton used extra time and footage to edit together a collection of three films, closer to his style of personal filmmaking.

"...has the quiet beauty of rain. It is the story of a young girl afraid to enter womanhood. Taking the phone off the hook, she attempts to sleep while her would-be lover tries to call. And in her fantasy, she sees herself escaping to the playground and embracing childhood anew...perhaps the most quietly satisfying gem that you will see in a long time...contrasts with the sexual vibrance of the tones' singing with the lonely quiet of the girl's flight with remarkable effectiveness."–Bruce Covert, McGill Daily Review [Overview Selection Courtesy of The Film-Makers' Cooperative]

"I had a camera with which I could make multiple superimpositions spontaneously. It had been lent to me for a week. I was also given a couple of rolls of color film which had been through an intensive fire. The chance that the film would not record any image at all left me free to experiment and try to create the sense of the daily world in which we live, and what it meant to me. I wanted to record our home, and yet deal with it as being that area from which the films by Stan Brakhage arise, and try to make one arise at the same time." (SB)

A vivid educational geography film exploring the landscapes, cultures, and people of Jamaica, Haiti, and the Lesser Antilles. Produced alongside a similar film on Mexico, it represents one of Centron’s earliest efforts in a series that takes viewers on journeys across the world, capturing the spirit of exploration and discovery.

Davey, Goliath, and Sally go on a Halloween adventure where mistaken identities cause hurt feelings.

A time capsule look at the year of 1968.

The growing excitement of a group of Puerto Rican teenagers at a storefront film workshop (Young Filmmakers) on New York's Lower East Side, creating their own films and showing them in the streets to young people throughout New York City. The interesting relationship between these filmmakers, their supporting social service institutions and personnel and the television media; plus details of the production of the first Puerto Rican Western, The Revenge.

Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966.

Sugar Daddy likes his women young and sweet. He lives on short-term pleasures, seducing young girls for one night stands. He will soon find out the long-term consequences of his quick seductions.

A crook on a steamboat tries to outwit Inspector Willoughby.

Two men kidnap attactive women for their role-playing games.

A sex-crazed man is forced to abstain from sex. But the sedatives given to him by his doctor causes side affects when taken in overdose which cause him to hallucinate about sex, wherever he is.

Animated short. A workman appears to climb a magical rope and return with a fortune in jewels.

A horny hipster rooster, attracted to the hens in Foghorn Leghorn's barnyard, disguises himself as a baby foundling on Foghorn's doorstep. Foghorn adopts the girl-crazy rooster as his son, giving him access to all the chickens on the farm!

While commissioned to create this promotional film for Outward Bound, an organization dedicated to connecting young people with outdoor experiences, Fulton used extra time and footage to edit together a collection of three films (Ahnameke, Huie Whitewater and Oriana), closer to his style of personal filmmaking. This is the commercial work.

A film by Charles Levine

After a traumatic event leaves a young woman with hysterical blindness and amnesia, "The Blind Hunter" (George Nader) steps in to protect her from a brutal killer. Her memories are finally unlocked by an eerie piano melody of the Visayan love song Dandansuy, leading to a climactic showdown along the dangerous, winding Kennon Road near Baguio City.

In this silent film, Nauman walks around the perimeter of a large square marked off with masking tape. He shifts his hips exaggeratedly as he places one foot in front of the other, moving carefully around the square.

Surrounds two high school students, who fall in love, get married and realize problems multiply, compared to their previous single life as carefree teenagers.

Wendy helps Casper remove a spell from a prince.

In April 1966, Cilla opened in a 3-week cabaret season at London’s Savoy Hotel. On her final Sunday, she starred in her own television special produced by her manager Brian Epstein’s film company, Subafilms. It was the first colour television show of its kind to be made by an independent producer in Britain. The show was broadcast in the UK in black & white but aired in colour in The Netherlands and the USA. ‘Cilla at the Savoy’ was one of the most watched television specials of the 1960s.

In 1960, Robert Drew founded his production company Drew Associates; joining him were a number of well-known or soon-to-be well-known documentary filmmakers including Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles and D.A. Pennebaker. Between 1960-63, Drew Associates produced 17 documentary films for television. Aga Khan was part of a 12-film subset of these known as The Living Camera, which were funded by Time and broadcast in syndication around the country. It shows the young Prince Karim at a time when he recently took over as spiritual leader of his Ismaili Muslim community. The film follows him to Switzerland, France and Africa as he steps out of the shadows to lead as the hereditary Imam.

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This short, a prologue to the feature film The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), focuses on Michelangelo’s life and his many famous frescoes and sculptures. After a short visit to Caprese, where the artist was born, and the town where he first studied his craft, we see many of his most important works. They include the Madonna of the Stairs, completed at age 15; the statues of the Medici Tombs; and his two most famous Biblical figures: David and Moses.

A lecture by G. Edward Griffin, given in the late '60s, exposes the hidden plan that shapes U.S. foreign policy and that the ultimate objective of that policy is the same then as it is now — disarmament and world government.

The theme of the film is political assassination and it is presented with lightening-fast collage. The figures of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John and Robert Kennedy, and Lee Harvey Oswald flash by at great speed with animated images overlaid on these flashing figures. The sound track is a hodgepodge of speech excerpts, news broadcasts, and jarringly discordant music. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The cooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel. By Jiminy by David Scott Daniel

Short directed by Robert Mitchell and Robert Swarthe.

Three prisoners are driven to exploit any means possible to achieve superiority – some sliver of ego which will make their debasing confinement tolerable. They often fantasize. They go along with each other’s games. When a fourth, younger prisoner comes into the symbolic cell, his innocence and insistence on his innocence push the men to crisis.

A promotional short for The Glass Bottom Boat. Details NASA's participation in the production of the film. Hosted by Doris Day.

Short film by Jacques Drouin and Nicole Morisset

1967 Navy training film MN-10507-A. Navy physician talks about the dangers of LSD or "Russian roulette in a sugar cube." National Archives Identifier: 6379 "How LSD was discovered, the extreme dangers of using it and how it affects the brain and body."

BP documentary film exploring the natural beauty of oil under the microscope, and through a variety of other techniques.

A private investigator tries to crack a case involving a number of dead nude women.

A detailed account of the life and artistic journey of Michelangelo.

A sponsored film made by Millie Goldsholl (of Chicago's Morton Goldsholl Associates) for Karolton Envelope Company, a division of Kimberly-Clark. Morton & Millie Goldsholl ran Morton Goldsholl Associates, one of Chicago's leading graphic design studios in the 1950s. The studio became recognized for their animations, progressive hiring practices and developing corporate branding packages for various companies.

A maniacs seeks brutal revenge against two women wo disfigured his face in self defense.