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The Grand Wizard arrives to see Stanley the Sorcerer perform one successful spell. Honey and Fraidy Bat help him fool the Wizard.

If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is what this film does. It shows the familiar urban scene without a soul in sight: streets empty, buildings empty, yet everywhere there is evidence of recent life and activity. At the end of the film we learn what has happened.

"Regardless of country of origin, classification, or labels, one characteristic seems to pervade the creative film expression of our time. That is a growing awareness that the film medium has a formal as well as a representational aspect. That it can best communicate vision and realty when it organically exploits its own plastic means and mode of composition. And that for a film to move people deeply, the filmmaker needs not only a special way of seeing experience, but a specific way of filming it. This film tells the story of a man who has a rendezvous with memory and desire; a man who can neither escape from his present nor his past. Moving on two levels–the objective and subjective–the film shifts back and forth from vision to reality: from memory to desire; from the prison of obsessions to the metaphors of regression."–L.J.

An iconographic film that uses over 1300 images to relate the history of the United States in just 3 minutes.

A short by Stan Vanderbeek.

"In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the ‘Opening’ exhibit of 1973. I blow on and kiss a mirror, I apply lipstick, I transform into a white statue and paint blood red lips… then I become a mask in a distorted mirror, a face with many lips…In the last sequence I circle my face with a light and transform into the mask." - Penny Slinger

”Assassination, falling down, animated drawings from the landscape of memory, mankind falling down, faces with faces, a haunting view of man drawn in brilliant animation graphics.” – S.V., Filmmaker’s Cooperative Catalogue № 7.

The Pink Panther has difficulty crossing a busy traffic intersection.

A Rough Sketch features a linear view of our universe from the human scale to the sea of galaxies, then directly down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. With images, narration, and a dashboard, it gives a clue to the relative size of things and what it means to add another zero to any number. The 1977 film, Powers of Ten, was an expanded and updated version of this 1968 study film. Charles and Ray often gave projects long titles to indicate that they were still exploring their ideas—that the presentation was a model or a type of “sketch.”

The filmmaker appears as an artist attempting to set up his easel, with frustrating results.

Whenever Father is away, Mother's friend "Uncle Fred" comes to visit. Animated short.

A gangster takes over a computerized dating service in order to use it as a front for his prostitution operation.

Bollywood 1968

A 1967 CBS television documentary in which Morley Safer presents, without commentary, interviews with U.S. airmen returning from a bombing mission in Vietnam, allowing their descriptions of killing to stand on their own.

A butler seduces women.

A couple honeymoons on a deserted isle called Thunder Island. When the husband leaves the island to go for supplies, the wife finds that the island isn't as deserted as they thought it was.

A man waits for the delivery of his child.

On February 25, 1966, an installment of CBS's critically acclaimed documentary series, CBS Reports, focused on the daily lives and dreams of teenagers growing up in Webster Groves, an affluent suburb south of St. Louis, Missouri. 16 in Webster Groves was followed, seven weeks later, by Webster Groves Revisited, an unprecedented though carefully planned defense of the contents and conclusion presented in the original telecast that incorporated the responses of Webster Groves' residents to their earlier portrayal and their rebuttal to the image of their community presented to the nation-at-large.

This documentary stars Vincent Price and Jeanne Crain. It shows William Mortensen and George Dunham as well as Grey Silva in Mortensen's studio. It features most of Mortensen's famous pictures and chronicles his life.

Shorty is unable to wake Swifty for their fishing trip and finally takes drastic measures in order to ensure they both make it to the lake.

Backstage with Franco Zeffirelli and Rudolph Bing as multiple mechanical difficulties snag rehearsals. Marc Chagall stops by only to see that his giant murals were not hung the way he intended in the lobby. Leontyne Price is engaging as she prepares for her commanding starring role in Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra.”

In order to raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas eve. To the dismay of the shoppers, their action snarled traffic and stunted holiday consumption.

Sometimes a man will go to the ends of the earth to win the girl he loves! In this romantic comedy, billionaire Abundio Celso falls in love with the beautiful Claudia. But no matter how many gifts he gives her, he can't impress this girl

Susan Starr is a talented young concert pianist preparing for the biggest competition of her life. She also happens to have a terrible cold that keeps her in bed and an omnipresent mother. Battling against 34 of the most talented pianists in the world at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Susan hopes to win not only prize money in the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Piano Competition, but also the recognition that could launch the musical career for which she has been working since she was three years old. Following Susan through the hectic days leading up to the event and through the competition itself, the film captures the intense reality of an aspiring young artist facing the challenge of her life.

A desert loner adopts an ocelot he finds in an old car, but later realizes that it must be set free. The ocelot finds a mate, and so does the loner, falling for a young nurse that moves to the area.

This 70s-era education video titled “The Final Factor” sponsored by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety takes the viewer through various fictional scenarios that lead to road accidents. Throughout each scenario, there is an analysis of the factors that led up to that particular road accident and then a clip where the mistakes are rectified and the emergency averted. Not to be confused with the 1982 version.

a junkyard, a man walking around a city being spied on, wildfires, a moving car's POV, the life of animals and people in a park, a man conducting against a backdrop of a city amidst destruction....but what could it all mean?

Nick and Louie are two degenerates who assault a young woman in her Greenwich Village apartment. The woman's boyfriend, Paul, embarks on a quest to find and get revenge against the two thugs which leads him to the seedy underbelly of New York's red light district from a strip club to a local brothel where Paul meets and has sexual encounters with a few women to learn the identity of the two 'girl grabbers' leading to a drug deal between the two thugs and a powerful gangster.

A Canadian man works as a stagehand in Toronto and falls in love with a Chinese singer of the visiting Peking Opera.

Things go terribly wrong for four youths, ejected from a London nightclub for rowdiness, after they decide to break into a Magic shop, where they tie up and terrorize the owner. They find to their cost that he deals in more than illusions...

An experimental film featuring students of Westchester County, NY performing and interpreting various pieces of Shakespeare's plays, as well as engaging in other Cullum-led activities. Depicts examples of Cullum's mixing of poetry, drama, and play to foster educational motivation.

A dramatized social commentary with the horrifying impact of a three-hundred ton chunk of margarine.

A Sidney the Elephant cartoon.

Building and launching the cruise ship M/S Finlandia

This short film features Les Blank (in a rare acting role) and Getachew Abbai. Directed by David Lawrence. This was a student film made at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Black & white. 10 minutes. 1960.

[…] Though the highs and lows of human experience are all here, it's often the gimcrack set design and fashion chops in these vintage clunkers that really wow – the pot-holder sweater vests, ponytails decorated with yarn, hippies with crumb-catching moustaches, banana-seat bikes and a hard rain of Quaaludes and amphetamines to illustrate the dangers of drug addiction. It is hard to believe anyone would buy the goofball cause-and-effect of that pill-popper's weather pattern in "Drugs Are Like That". Co-produced by the Miami Junior League and narrated by Anita Bryant in this cheery little hand-slapper, a kid stealing cookies from a cookie jar is implied to be headed down a bad road to Bowery bum rolls and LSD parties. (from: http://clatl.com/atlanta/av-geeks-greatest-hits-lessons-learned/Content?oid=1268313)

Addresses the age-old problem of two men vying for the same woman. Includes an unconventional, contemporary duel between them, with a wineglass and a violin as weapons. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

This documentary seems to be aimed at the same audience who paid to see Mondo Cane. Scenes include the birth of 12 piglets, the removal of a dog's cornea to be transplanted into a human, and a human tooth extraction. Visits to a wax museum, a ride on a roller coaster, a beauty contest, and a discotheque are also shown.

A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform self portraiture, lettering tests and images traced from other films including a Charlie Chaplin short.

Warhol offers his own version of the notorious 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder case.

Film shot by filmmaker Marie Menken in the mid-1960s. Preserved by the Anthology Film Archive (AFA).

Documentary of Apollo 11 mission from NASA footage.

"Calligraphic computer animation of the enigmatic poem 'There is no way to peace- Peace is the way.' Black and white animation is colored by Brown/ Olvey. This film with soundtrack by John Cage is a lyric accidental stylization of christian myth/crosses. The patterns are written by random programs on a computer with help by Ken Knowlton." S.V.

“Third Eye Butterfly” is a double 16mm projection piece in which the two screens – at times divided within into additional “mini-screens” causing textured kaleidoscopic effects – blur to create a third wider frame, encouraging the viewers to extend their vision beyond ordinary sight - Microscope Gallery

Colored lights and lovely ladies. Snatches of kinetic beauty.

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

Rare adaptation of Dylan Thomas' poem of the same name.

When Sloan Publications decides to make its entry into the Hollywood nude movie business, they hire an ex-combat photographer to make a film for them.

An insightful short of life in the BBC Newsroom. From delivery of footage to playout. Shows brief footage of The Beatles arriving at London Airport in March 1965.

"Yes is one of cinema's most beautiful pastorales and a manifesto of a desperately romantic soul" --Jonas Mekas

Edie Sedgwick hanging out at her apartment with Ondine and others in an alcohol and amphetamine–fueled talkfest.

A dull vacation at a holiday camp becomes interesting when the holidaying teenagers bump into 'Sherry', a female impersonator.

Short experimental film by Robert Frerck.

A few basic gestures, deliberately excluding indefinite states in between.

Documentary on the “father” of Fado music.

A sequel of his previous 1967 homonymous experiment, Doppler Effect II moves one step forward in the mission of organising seemingly random stock footage along a rhythmical axis. By using found footage of diverse origin - political announcements, animal life, porn - and intertwining it with images recorded by Agnew himself-- cityscapes, abstract light essays-- the film abandons any attempt of evoking meaning of any sort and focuses on a strictly formal exercise centred on time intervals and micro-relations between small sets of images. The soundtrack, recorded by Duane Hitchings (known for his collaborations with Miles Davis and Hendrix, but also for his Flashdance OST) on a Moog synth, is an engaging exercise in abstract sonic dynamics and an essential part of the Doppler experiment in that it not only provides different aural settings for the diverse footage presented throughout the film, but also aptly sets the pace for the fast succession of synched images.

A teenage girl and her boyfriend struggle with their love for one another, until an encounter with the girl's abusive father leads to the young couple to question the existence of goodness in life.