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A personal experimental stop motion film made by educational filmmaker, Thomas G. Smith.

A short documentary look at Chicago's class and racial divides in 1961, produced cooperatively by local religious groups.

Short experimental film by Shelby Kennedy

A vicious, deviant publisher of a sex magazine delights in seducing and dropping young women while a Broadway columnist tries to bring him down.

A little papoose, bent on hunting bear, is stopped by his father, the chief, and told to forget the idea. The papoose responds by shooting a rubber-tipped arrow onto the father's nose, and the chief decides to teach his progeny a good lesson.

Cruel, conniving Norma Sue returns to her backwoods hometown with her stud lover to wreak havoc on the local denizens. Her main target is her sexually repressed sister, who runs the local hotel. At the same time, jobless slacker Billy Joe commences an affair with a broke immigrant lady whose husband is overseas. Pressured by his cheating wife to earn some cash, he decides to pimp his new paramour. Norma Sue's scheming eventually involves all these characters in intense, often nasty, interlocking liaisons, betrayals, seductions and violations

Marked by a playful, irreverent sense of improvisation and experimentation, these experiments with image manipulation and synthesis form a link between Paik's performance and sculptural works of the 1950s and early 1960s and the celebrated video works and installations of his later years.

The number of teens contracting VD every year.

A Hashimoto short.

Sidney is 44 years old and still sucking his thumb, dreaming of having tusks like the other elephants do.

Oscar nominated short cartoon from 1969. A shepherd, who wants to be left alone to pursue his career, finally faces the reality that there are no jobs for shepherds. He sends his sheep to the country and takes a correspondence course to train for a new career.

The first attempt to translate Wonder Woman to the small screen in 1967. Diana lives with her mother close to a United States Air Force base. Much of the film consists of her mother berating Diana about not having a boyfriend. When her mother leaves the room, Diana changes into her Wonder Woman costume and admires her reflection in a mirror. What she sees is not Diana Prince, but rather a sexy super-heroic figure (played by Linda Harrison) who proceeds to preen and pose as the song "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" plays on the soundtrack.

"The poet Rod Townley, who was a friend of mine, received a commission (and this will give you some idea of how the ’60s operated) to drive a sports car from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles in 2 1/2 days, but only if we could get it there in 2 1/2 days. I couldn’t drive at that point, so I just took along the Bolex. We left from Philadelphia; we stayed up all night the night before, and then got in the car & drove. The first night we stopped in Nashville, the second night in Albuquerque, and the last night, we got to Los Angeles. Rod delivered the car, & I took off for San Francisco, because LA seemed dull and dangerous. When I got to San Francisco, I looked up a guy named Terry Barlow, whom I hadn’t seen in years and years, and just walked in on him unannounced. The trip was shot in black and white, and the other stuff in color negative. I shot Terry Barlow in Golden Gate Park, doing an improvised dance next to a carousel.”- WWD

El Maná was the first short film created by the Cuban revolution, with a strong propaganda encouraging the Cuban people to work hard and to defend the Cuban revolution.

A humorous report on the 17th World Chess Olympiad, held in Havana in 1966: the preparations, the public’s interest, facial expressions, nervous grimaces and the gestures of the great masters.

A militant film.

Directed by Robert Zagone, an approximate 30 minute U.S. documentary film on the San Francisco rock band Country Joe And The Fish, first shown on TV.

In his family's crowded apartment, Evan longs for a private place to call his own. So when his mother lets him pick out a corner of the apartment to have to himself, Evan chooses his favorite place, right by the window. "An appealing little boy emerges in the simple, sensitive storytelling"

Brothel madam blackmails her clients.

Not to be confused with Robert Withers's 1979 "16 Millimeter Earrings" which builds upon this work, Meredith Monk's 1966 "16 Millimeter Earrings" is a black and white film of a woman holding a magnifying glass to each eye and tearing apart several wigs.

Three men, all named Howard cope with living in an otherwise humanness world.

Essay film about psychoanalysis and capitalism.

A short experimental film by Joaquim Puigvert

A 1967 short film by Mario Schifano.

Motion picture directed by Vedantam Raghavaiah

An account of the reactions of photographer and filmmaker James M. Mannas, Jr.'s New York community to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The true story of an American doctor in China during the Communist takeover

Aladdin's three sons have been troubling the people of the city with their mischief and trouble, until one of the sons falls in love with the ruler's daughter.

A daring fusion of current (circa 1960) pop idolatry with parallel (only a little more sinister) scenes of Ancient Greece. Based on the 'Bacchae of Euripides'.

A young artist struggles to seek inspiration from a slowly crumbling cityscape. Moving Image Archive: http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3631

“In their starkly minimal film, The Awful Backlash, directors Robert Nelson and William Allan, focus solely on a pair of hands as they begin to unravel what appears to be a tangled fishing line. Any further evidence of the title’s confusing ‘awfulness’ – other than the literal disentanglement of the line remains, however, tentative, left as it were, literally, at a loose end. The viewer knows nothing of the incident that led to this backlash or entanglement; nor of the directors’ initial motive for the title indeed not of any other attempt at blending an additional storyline beyond what is seen. There is, perhaps, one link with a reverse reaction – a sense of gradual recovery taking place, as the thread unfolds from a position of multiplicity back to a singular line.” (Pamela Kember, Rethinking Refunctioning, ‘Awful Backlash’ catalogue, May 2000) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

'It's so absolutely beautiful, so perfect, so like nothing else. Forms, geometry, lines movements, light, very basic, very pure, very surprising, very subtle.' - Jonas Meka

"A film produced in Regular 8mm around 1970. At the time this film was very much praised by Stan Brakhage who asked me for a print and urged me to never put a sound track with it." -MO

The fairy tale of "Cinderella" is combined with the classic adventure of "The Three Musketeers." Sad Cat wants to be a musketeer like his two older brothers. A fairy godmother appears, and he gets his wish. Jealousy splits the three, though, and Sad Cat is happy to return to being himself.

Concert performance produced for UNITEL in 1967

One of the cheapest Santa films ever produced. Shot in Pittsburgh, with blurry home movie footage of Santa parades (on one float he sticks out of a giant chimney, on another he stands in the cockpit of a rocket ship). Santa sits in a vinylite Laz-E-Boy as he orders his elves (kids dressed in leotards) around. Features a trip to a department store and endless footage of a large toy train setup. (archive.org)

Goodie the Gremlin is on trial for doing good deeds.

"This film depicts, in a humorous vein, the impressions of three Ethiopian students upon entering a strange country, and the perplexing world of university life at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)" (US National Archives).

Young long-distance runner Bruce Kidd practices and competes.

Al Fajr is the first Tunisian feature film. It tells the story of three young Tunisians who fight against the French colonisation.

An Academy Award winning multi-image large-format film showcasing life in Ontario without narration or dialogue but accompanied by the classic song "A Place to Stand, a Place to Grow (Ontari-ari-ari-o!)" Produced for the Ontario Department of Economics and Development, it premiered at the Ontario Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal.

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

Two Aboriginal families live like their ancestors have for centuries in this anthropological documentary. The gathering of food is the main focus as women harvest grass seeds to make a primitive flour for bread. Grubs, lizards, and fruit are also on the menu, with the only contact with the modern world being their trek to a government compound for much-needed drinking water.

Produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this film explains the role of the plan of salvation in Mormon theology, with questions like "Who am I?", "Where did I come from?", and "Where am I going?" being explored from a Mormon perspective. This film was produced by the BYU Motion Picture Studio for the Mormon Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.

This 1969 informational film was part of the U.S. Army's effort to educate troops on how best to neutralize enemy tunnels during the Vietnam War.

Astronut was a kind, zany guy from outer space who always seemed to get into trouble. Oscar was his human friend.

Two and a half million passengers every day all over the country; thousands of trains, each to be cleaned at the end of its journey. This film shows in detail the various types of cleaning undertaken at stations, between journeys and at cleaning depots.

Word & number gag, no camera.

Since June 1, 1960, the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) had been in New London and Groton, CT for Polaris Action, a summer-long campaign to disrupt the production of nuclear-armed submarines at General Dynamics: Electric Boat and to educate the public about the dangers of the nuclear arms race. Most participants traveled in from other places and, according to the Hilary Harris documentary Polaris Action (1960), included “men and women, old persons and the very young, ministers and atheists, ex-servicemen and conscientious objectors.”

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).

Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included the issuing of public warnings of any nuclear missile strike and the subsequent fallout.

A wrestling match shown on television, shot on film-- A tv 'concrete'.

This extraordinary film documents the first days of rehearsal for the performance Ceremony of Us, created in response to the Watts riots and staged at the Mark Taper Theatre in Los Angeles in 1969. No final performance film exists, but this film goes far in capturing its spirit. After working separately for months with all-white dancers in San Francisco and all-black dancers in Watts, Anna Halprin brought the two groups together in the politically groundbreaking performance. This film captures how Anna guided the two groups of dancers into experiences that both elicited and challenged racial stereotypes, creating a space where political and personal anger and despair could be expressed, and where reconciliation could be envisioned.

EVE-RAY-FOREVER is a silent, three-screen expanded version of COSMIC RAY (1961). Originally exhibited as an 8mm Technicolor looped installation at the Rose Art Museum in 1965, it was digitally restored in 2006 by Conner in close collaboration with his editor, Michelle Silva. By combining three channels of footage of slightly different lengths, EVE-RAY-FOREVER generates an ever-changing, chance-based juxtaposition of images that flash on the screen with dizzying speed. The film’s name reflects the tripartite structure of the work, with “Eve” referring to the nude woman who appears on the far left channel, “Ray” to Ray Charles, the inspiration for COSMIC RAY, and “Forever” signifying its looped playback, which allows the work to play and mutate continuously.

Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"

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

Obscure sex comedy

Chilly Willy's on a wharf fishing, using his accordion as a sea bag. As he catches a fish, he puts it in the sea bag.