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After a decade of honing his visual techniques with still photography, Fulton began experimenting with filmmaking using a 16mm Bolex camera. In developing a visual style which would become the bedrock of his work for decades to come, Fulton focused on one, two, and three minute explorations in twisting camera motions, multiple exposures, and capturing shots in quick bursts or in single frame increments, temporally challenging viewers in the process. These films were captured around New England, Fulton's home at the time.

Describes the eight major climatic regions of the United States, and explains how climate affects the agriculture, industry, and population of each region. Identifies the factors which determine climate, including latitude, landforms, ocean currents, altitude and winds.

Very little is known about this movie except that it was a comedy alternatively titled "Make Love Not War". According to some sources, it was never released.

Life in a Yorkshire mining community as preparations are in train for a wedding.

Through animation, maps of the same scale and projection are combined to show relationships between natural features of the earth, human use, and social and political features. Projects different kinds of animated maps of the same scale and explains how the maps are used in gaining an understanding of the relationships between the social, political, and natural features of the earth.

16mm film transferred to video, black and white, silent

A man talks about addiction to barbiturates.

A young widow who has a way with animals moves to Northern California and is asked to care for the local strays. A wreck of a circus truck sets a menagerie of circus animals free, and she has to use all her wits to catch them. Only a leopard eludes her, and he is befriended by a local renegade dog. Eventually she is able to trap them and she trains them to be in her animal act.

The game of the false lion is a custom dating back more than a century. It is believed that only the people who have been touched by the lion can identify with it and be subject to the influence of its behaviour. Pierre N'Gom, with this son, the lion cub, are the last descendants of a family of false lions. In the chaos of the popular celebration, and to the endless rhythm of drums, the lion and the cub attack the public to give vent to their aggressiveness. The false lion can be tamed only by the eloquence of the word.

In this baffling Times Square oddity, cackling hostess Lola Lust and her masked Satan partner observe random sexual scenarios. Clearly shot alongside The Filth Shop and cynically split into two features, director "Looney Bear's" incoherent sexploitation mess perfectly captures the shameless hustle of 1960s grindhouse cinema.

When three year old Willy wanders away from home he falls among thieves. They are forced to kidnap him. The police ask Dickie, his elder brother and his friend, Johnny to help in the search. Johnny's friends all join in and meet with varied adventures. The children find Willy in a disused warehouse but cannot rescue him. Three more are caught by the gang who lock them in with the now unconscious gang leader and escape with the jewels. The police, alerted by the children, capture the gang, recover the jewels and finally rescue the children, including Willy

An animation submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration.

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

A Documentary about the Royal Canadian Navy in peace and in war.

Similes of a slippery TV tube gesticulate break and supply – a long view of multiple images (Mr. Johnson's war, is it Howard Johnson's or President Johnson's war?) – a long curving view, breakfast with aspirin, good grief – or Goodbye. (SUPER-IMPOSITION is a videotape experiment with multiple images, made with film artist-in-residency at Colgate University.) Life and art ... interacting ... it is interesting to note that movies and psychoanalysis are approximately the same age ... there are now more TV sets in America than bathtubs. There are more radios in America than people. Although 75 percent of Japanese households have television sets, statistics show only 35 percent have running water and fewer than ten percent have flush sanitation. Some 40 percent of American children have one or more.

Based on instructional material, this film explains the preparation and procedures for the operation of a then modern AC electric locomotive, also taking in diesel haulage and shots of steam traction. The opening sequence features an early use of the double-arrow BR logo.

"Brooks edited this footage but never printed it in his lifetime. While we cannot know for sure the true origins of, or intentions for, this material, it is a stunning document of the legendary jazz musician." - Anthology Film Archives

Industrial film produced for an annual Calvin Company workshop seminar intended to humorously instruct new employees on Calvin production tropes.

The first film by Steve Carver ("Big Bad Mama"), focusing on the life of a young man growing up in Pruitt-Igoe. Featuring an evocative jazz score and sharp editing, this impressionistic cinematic portrait follows William Townes as he discusses life in and outside the projects, romance, fights, friendship and his aspiration to someday do "more than one thing."

Dedicated to all the magic makers of the world who weave a talisman for man's rebirth in his house of breath.

Exhausted by a sexually frustrating home life in the Bronx, portly, 65-year-old Uncle Bojo tosses aside all responsibilities, leaves his wife, Stella, and sets out in search of adventures.

Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording

With poet Taylor Mead.

Though not a portrait, it was inspired by the way Gregory J. Markopoulos’s portraits in Galaxie intermingle the identities of his figures with objects around them; less obvious influences are F.W. Murnau’s Tabu and the relationships between figures and backgrounds in the films of Howard Hawks.

Mouris’s “first attempt at ‘capturing’ Coney Island in home-made images” illustrates the sights of Coney Island with animated paper cutouts. “A classmate, Peter Schlaifer, who had split the day of filming with me on that first experience at the Chemistry department, joined me in doing a silent animated film rather than doing yet another two-dimensional poster for a graphic design class assignment. Thus was born CONEY ISLAND EATS.” (Yale Film Archive)

Crashing waves, the cry of a gull, silence.

Ronald Tavel taunts Philip Fagan, who lacks the verbal dexterity to counter the clever spider’s web of words that Ronald Tavel weaves to ensnare him, so that Fagan’s only response is to refuse to respond and stare silently off-screen, turning the screen test into a strange form of psychodrama.

An educational film which documents the menstruation process and feelings in young girls.

Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.

Presumed-lost sex flick from the prolific Joe Sarno.

Barbara Rubin, posed against a white wall and brightly lit from the right, smokes, shifts position constantly, glances around, leans forward to put her cigarette out, and gazes off into space. Near the end of the film, she smiles broadly at people off-screen.

British independent animation and one of Derek Phillips' earlier shorts.

A look into the life of Brett, a boy born without arms due to thalidomide exposure.

Film in Which There Appear... is a six-minute loop of the double-printed image of a "China girl" or "Shirley card", her image off-center, making visible the sprocket holes and edge lettering on the film. According to Land, within the loop, "no development in the dramatic or musical sense" occurs. Fred Camper described Film in Which There Appear... as "a kind of Duchampian found object, a [...] film that focuses attention on the medium and the viewer." There also exists a 20-minute "widescreen version" involving two prints of the film projected side-by-side, with the left print flipped horizontally so that the "China girl" forms an almost complete face in the center.

Mike the Masquerader is loose again in this sequel to Mike The Masquerader.

A class trip to the museum requires some new rules.

A short film with soundtrack by Harry Partch: a ballet for gymnasts.

Divorced Dad's planning to remarry, so Daughter #1 notifies Mom and Daughters #2&3. Then parents, daughters and boyfriends act out for 80 minutes.

"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the aftermath is inevitable, and a normal human condition, for which like the ancients one can only have pity and understanding. In this lies the mystery. All else is irrelevant. That there are other sub-currents of equal power in The Mysteries goes without saying; and, those who are capable of the numerous visual visitations and annunciations which the film offers them will realize what is the Ultimate Mystery of my work."

An imaginary explanation of the death of the magician Chung Ling Soo (William Robinson). Killed on stage at the Wood Green Empire in London, on March 23, 1918.

Luna appears in one of Warhol’s famous screen tests. Contrary to Warhol’s preferred stasis, she acknowledges the camera with a series of smiles, winks, and suggestive facial expressions.

A teen-aged girl defies her parents and the traditions of her family and becomes involved with counter-culture types.

The rise of National Socialism in Germany and Hitler’s anti-semitic policies and advocation of the superiority of the Aryan race resulted in several calls for a boycott of the games. Against this political backdrop, Jesse Owens’ haul of four gold medals is all the more significant. For a black athlete to demonstrate clearly his superior athleticism and so convincingly outperform his white counterparts was a massive slap in the face for Hitler and made a mockery of his racist theories during his Nazi showpiece games. Standing in the box at the Olympiastadion where Hitler sat to watch the games, Jesse Owens tells with pride that the flag of the US team was the only one not to be dipped as the athletes passed the Führer. (andberlin.com)

This film celebrates weddings and being wed, and the union of opposites in everything everywhere.

This is a short film about a man, a dog and a duck who enjoy bouncing together.

A double murder is committed–presumably. A sleepwalker is unaware where she is going or what the consequences of her actions are–presumably. The law investigates–presumably. Nothing is solved, or is it? Is there a suicide at the end? More mysterious than narrative. –D. H.

Nico swigs from a Coke bottle while the camera maintains constant movement, zooming in and out, panning right and left.

We meet Abner propped upon a pillow in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. With an annoyingly twee voice emerging from his anthropomorphised face, Abner reveals the events leading up to his arrival in this hallowed hall. It seems that Abner is the baseball that got whacked by Mickey Mantle for a home run against the Detroit Tigers, on 10 September 1960 ... sailing for an astonishing 634 feet (193 metres).

American horror short from 1962.

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.

"The Ghost of Wittgenstein", "I'd Rather be Half Right Than Vice President" alongside "Lost in Cudilhy" form that experimental trifecta of experimental or just plain mental art movies known as "The Charlotteruse with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy". Restored in 2017 comprise an essential 16MM restoration project by producer / director Ira Schneider, who is the undisputed master of the experimental doc genre as well as being the unsung founder of video art. They are to be re-released at the Prada Fondazione in Milan and Paris Independent Film Festival 2017. Restoration producer is Claudine Biswas-MacKenzie MA.

Featuring Joy Bang, Prescott Townsend, Rene Ricard. Music by the Unidentified Flying Objects. "The grand prize ... went to Andrew Meyer's black-and-white AN EARLY CLUE TO THE NEW DIRECTION, whose virtues had nothing to do with technical polish. Mr. Meyer's film hung on dialogue, cast and plot (of a kind), clearly moving in a new direction. Its central virtue was nothing less than a superb performance by an old man, Prescott Townsend, playing a Boston rogue long past his time, who charms a young girl with his 'snowflake theory.'" – Douglas M. Davis, National Observer

A Navajo short film which documents a boy drawing and using water from Old Antelope Lake.

Ginger and Curt, a weirdly incestuous brother & sister act, throw swinger parties for the neighborhood trash, but a mysterious killer in white shoes is strangling their guests.

An 8mm portrait film, consistent with Owens’ other portrait films in 16mm, where his lingering gaze, dramatic lighting, and play with focus and underexposure form emotional landscapes rich with tension, uncertainty and warmth. The camera foregrounds a young woman's expressive face and eyes, as Owens' plays with light, shadow and focus. Following a partnership with the Chicago Film Society to restore the 16mm films of SAIC alumnus Edward Owens, the Flaxman Library has recently finished new 16mm restorations of Owens' earlier 8mm work.

This unusual short was made while the director was at U.S.C., prior to returning to his native Iran, where he made a few feature films before his untimely death at the age of 48. Cocoon follows a frustrated young black dishwasher who visits adult bookstores and lives a lonely, meager existence. Filmed against a particularly sleazy (and hippie-filled) late-1960s Hollywood. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called Cocoon "one of the finest serious short films ever made, right up there with Roman Polanski's Two Men and a Wardrobe."

Educational film about the funeral process. Narrated by pastor Dr. S.A. Owen of Memphis, Tennessee.

This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, one of the greatest 20th Century operas. The story of the individualistic fisherman hounded by his neighbors who believe he murdered his young apprentice packs tremendous emotional power. The compelling narrative is richly enhanced by its subtexts: the lone outsider versus the conformist mob; the dreamer of improbable dreams that lead to tragedy; the artist (dreamer) versus the Philistines, and the homosexual overtones of Grimes' abuse of his child apprentices. Britten is conductor of his work and tenor Peter Pears is Grimes, 25 years after he created the title role at the opera's premiere. As the widow Ellen Orford, soprano Heather Harper is magnificent. Best of all, the sea is an ever-present actor here. When we don't see it in the background it exerts its presence in the abundant visual references to nets, barrels, and other paraphernalia of a seaside fishing village.

Honey Halfwitch and Stanley the Sorcerer assist an old horse by helping him win the Derby.