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Explains the theory of electromagnetism by building slowly from a simple bar magnet to a completed electromagnet made from simple home materials.

In the Brisbane Creative Leisure Centre, conducted by the Cantrills, children are shown reproductions of stained glass windows and then make large transparent pictures with black paper, coloured cellophane, and other materials such as discarded x-ray pictures and textured fabric, with a minimum of instruction. These are taken indoors and fastened to window panes.

An examination of the police brutality during the May '68 demonstrations.

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

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.

The film offers a comical look at dangers of addiction and the difficulties of quitting through the story of a chain smoker.

Only at a crisis do I see both the scene as I've been trained to see it ( that is, with Renaissance perspective, three-dimensional logic–colors as we've been trained to call a color a color, as so forth) and patterns that move straight out from the inside of the mind through the optic nerves... spots before my eyes, so to speak... and it's very intensive, disturbing, but joyful experience. I've seen that every time a child was born... Now none of that was in WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING; and I wanted a childbirth film which expressed all of my seeing at such a time.

A cartoon dialogue between Zeus and Europa explains the lessons of the past and views the future with hope. The six European Community members have pooled their economic destinies, wanting to become a healthy, strong family.

Documents the period 1919-1922 in Ireland's history, covering the war of independence against the British and the civil war that followed using archive footage from the time, including original newsreel footage.

A short film.

In this promotional short for theater owners, a voice-over narrator announces MGM is ready to make big grosses at the box office. He then introduces previews of eight films ready to be released and first peeks of five still in production.

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His interest and education (at Columbia) was in music, painting, and poetry. His effort was to merge these three: “to squeeze sound and picture out of the same tube – to weave a cloth with warp as sound, woof as picture, and meaning the fabric itself."

Mr. Rowe, headmaster of David Lister High School, Hull, outlines the benefits of the comprehensive schools system. Produced for the Labour Party.

In 1965, on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, there was the last operating fleet of sailing work boats in the United States. Forty-odd "Skipjacks" were still used by Maryland watermen to dredge up oysters from the Bay. At that time, the fleet had survived because of a Maryland conservation law which prohibits the use of motor power for oyster dredging. The watermen traditionally marked the opening of each oystering season with a skipjack race which the Maryland State Tourist Board incorporated into its annual "Chesapeake Bay Appreciation Day."

Heckle and Jeckle set up the "Last Chance Service Station" in the desert...

A short documentary on the "Harlem Street Singer," blues artist Rev. Gary Davis. Features footage of his neighborhood, Davis talking about his upbringing, and two performances including "Death Don't Have No Mercy." Benefiting from New York's folk revival in the 1960s, Davis influenced artists such as Dave Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, and the Grateful Dead.

"Andy Warhol's 1966 'sequel' to his Blow Job begins with a long static shot of Gregory Battcock looking bored; small movements of his head reframe the elegant tight close-up to make sun and shadow symmetrical on his face, or unbalance them again, while street noises expand the shot's implied space. Halfway through this 70-minute film, the camera pans down to reveal the back of another man's head. Zooms and more pans follow, yet each blocky, high-contrast composition has an assertive power characteristic of Warhol." - Fred Camper

The film consists of many maxims appearing on the screen and after each there is an almost completely irrelevant clip to supposedly illustrate the point.

From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow. He carries an ax, and he's accompanied by a dog. His labors continue. There is no soundtrack. Images rush past - water, trees, and surfaces too close up to distinguish. He struggles. A fire burns. Nature, in long shots and magnified, is formidable and silent. It's tough going; he carries on. In a capillary, blood flows.

Raised incognito for his own protection, the scion of a noble family grows up to be a defender of the vulnerable. After a king is killed in a battle, the queen escapes with the prince in order to secure his life. The prince, Abdulla, grows up to become a brave man and decides to avenge his father's death.

A young couple returns to a romantic Italian town where they first met and fell in love. Anxious to rekindle their passions, photographer Alfred (Lynch) and his girlfriend Annamaria (Guarnieri) retrace the steps of amore. Thing go smoothly until Alfred is plagued by thoughts of jealousy and is paralyzed by his inability to commit to the relationship. Annamaria, upset with Alfred, hops on another man's yacht and sails away in this depressing tale of love gone wrong. Shawn Phillips provides the soundtrack with his unique 12-string acoustic guitar stylings.

Report on the liberation struggle in Guinea Bissau / Cape Verde.

Rashid, the spitting image of legendary Zimbo, plans to steal beautiful Princess Zulina's treasure. Meanwhile, the real king of the jungle and Leela find young Mala in the wreckage of a small plane and decide to adopt him as their son.

"A tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books, text books, etc."/ "Why is it that just when you start getting into something you really like, that woman comes along with all her gyrating and sexy outfits; she's so irresistable you just can't go on... or can you." –B. C.

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

As the only work in this medium by Richter, the film was created for the exhibition Volker Bradke that took place on 13th December 1966 at Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. For the purpose of this exhibition, Gerhard Richter addressed the person Volker Bradke in different mediums. In addition to photographs, a banner and a large-scale painting Volker Bradke [CR: 133], the film had been screened. Richter transferred one of the stylistic features of his paintings of that time into film: the blurring.

Three of the top folksinger-composers - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Buffy Sainte-Marie - are featured here. These are the new "city" folksingers whose songs are strictly topical, commenting on the political and social issues of the day. Pete Seeger, an earlier singer in a similar tradition, talks about what the younger singer-composers are attempting to do and about their forerunners, such as Woody Guthrie and Aunt Molly Jackson.

Featuring narration by Walter Cronkite.

A Sad Cat cartoon.

"...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]

Shows five situations, each one a part of a story for students to complete. For primary grades.

Recently divorced, Robert Allan meets Peggy at a party and she soon becomes his mistress. The affair ends, however, when Robert discovers that Peggy is a nymphomaniac. Robert next has an affair with Gloria, but it also ends when he discovers that Gloria, unresponsive with men, is a lesbian. Robert finds happiness at last with Frenchy, but their idyl is shattered when two men break into the apartment, overcome Robert and assault and murder Frenchy. Her death drives Robert insane.

From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained.

Free for benefits and free showings. "we turning in side take it without them it closes Castles color You must pass through it before it closes open unstolen stop it closes castles color the before turning prism face the kiss half a beat time delay in image behind the cloth the rainbow bridge the rainbow bridge." – Erik Kiviat

Operation Third Form, features a fresh-faced John Moulder-Brown (Deep End) in a sparkling performance as the schoolboy out to foil a pair of north London crooks, is a pacey boy's own adventure complete with a groovy 1960s soundtrack.

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 crooks 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 are 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.

A couple rooms at one of those kitschy lovers' getaway hotels.

Eric Andersen and his girlfriend Debbie Green are seated side by side in front of a wooden backdrop covered with paint splatters. they lean against each other, smiling; Green glances often at Andersen. In camera edits include individual close-ups of each of them.

A "city symphony" film, produced to encourage Photographic Society of America members to attend their 1963 conference in Chicago, City to See is a surprising film. It combines footage of Chicago with a deadpan commentary that pokes fun commercial travel films: "Chicago is my town," the narrator says wryly, "and no other town will do." Conneely was awarded a special prize by the Photographic Society of America for this film.

“An impressionistic documentary. Black and white, alcoholics, blind people, wheelchairs...the down and out in Sydney. I was greatly influenced by documentary films I saw at the Workers’ Education Association Film Group. Real images were cut together with footage I’d shot in Waverley Cemetery—a cemetery here in Sydney—in a sort of symbolising where I suppose we all finish up, whether we’re handicapped or not! The film has no narration. Someone said I ought to have a composer write a soundtrack, so I went to great lengths...working with musicians in a studio. It was completely new to me, and I wasn’t really comfortable with it.” (Paul Winkler)

Six "Ladies" of the night sit around someone's living room discussing their last clients. In various R rated sequences we see them shower, get body painted, have a group sex, cross dress, use a whip, strip and dance poorly, and get beaten, choked and apparently killed. This is disturbingly filmed, but the character does in fact live to tell the story.

Four sequences digitally photographed and animated by Adam Beckett's biographer, Pamela Turner, in 2009 from Beckett's original drawings. These untitled images may have been intended for use in Life in the Atom. Also included, Every Other, is a unique version of an animated "exquisite corpse" and is a delightful study of two artists' drawings; Beckett and Kathy Rose took turns contributing segments to a sequence, each animating 24 frames, passing their final image to the other to continue. These 336 frames were discovered amongst Beckett's many drawings and were digitally recorded by Turner.

A dance filmed with Elaine Summers, in which the nude figure is placed against nature, in this case a particular and spherical sense of nature as produced by a special lens…(that takes in 195 degrees of sight on film).

Members of a school expedition in Tunisia become accidentally involved in industrial espionage.

A bewitching and beautiful Indian half-caste, Liah, takes her revenge on four ruthless cowboy desperadoes who have gunned down her husband for the sheer joy of killing. Using her enigmatic charm in a way that is fatal to the outlaws, the haunting young woman's vengeance is melted out in a strange, occult manner.

Yianni Martakis, a sailor immigrant in New York City, is on a mission to find and kill the man who raped his sister. Along the way he becomes entangled with the sweet, unassuming Niki Vassos, and must decide whether he should forget his path of vengeance and perhaps begin living a normal life.

This series followed the exploits of Sad Cat, a scraggly looking cat, and his friends.

Surveys ways in which Americans use water resources for recreational activities, including rafting, diving, surfing, sailing, and boating. Points out the need for water conservation.

Silent 8mm film.

Memories of a long-ago summer, London 1968; morning tea and departures.

“The sore – which is not static, but a series of exposures of a healing infection – is called Not a Case of Lateral Displacement. It is not a ‘medical illustration’ but an actual infection.” (George Landow, letter to Sheldon Renan, 1967)

This episode focuses on Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders. Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Frank O'Hara belongs, with Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery, to the "New York Poets" group. His work is characterized by acid wit. Ed Sanders is publisher of an underground literary magazine, a pacifist and leader of a rock and roll group known as "The Fugs". Both poets challenge the prevailing prejudices of our society. For Ed Sanders this has already led to some legal difficulties.

The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in Colorado. He sets up a comparison between “Kubelka’s Vienna” and his own.

Brief documentary that testifies to the existence of priests critical of Francoism within the Spanish Catholic Church.

Born in 1904, and first published by Ezra Pound in 1927, Louis Zukosky is the poet whose name is associated with the term objectivists. Although never widely known as a poet, his work as well as his writings on poetry have served as an example and exerted an influence over an entire generation of American poets. He has lived most of his life in Brooklyn Heights. He has taught until recently at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, and earlier at San Francisco State, Colgate, Queens College, and the University of Wisconsin. I was born young into a world that was already very old, says Zukofsky. Words for me are solid, he adds, even though sometimes they liquefy and sometimes they aerify. His readings in this episode range from his first published poem titled, A Poem Beginning The, to his monumental work still in progress, titled simple A, as well as his translations from Cavalcanti and Catullus.

(1962) Unnarrated film shows an orange and a blue rubber ball emerging from the woods. They explore a junkyard where they encounter the dangers of technology.

A celebration of the filmmaker’s daughter’s birth. The blazing garden as a metaphor for the cycle of life.

Taking advantage of a new government education program, a farmworker trains for a better-paying job as a welder.

Rita, an ill-paid factory worker, is determined to make it as a model in New York City. She's an ordinary girl with an extraordinary body. She learns by watching other models, but she also knows that photographers will insist on gratifying their own pleasure if she's to get the jobs. With a voice-over narration supplying all the commentary, we watch her six-month descent, from first jobs to wild parties, from drug use to seduction. "Pain is their pastime," says the narrator. How far will the degradation take Rita?