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A child discovers her ambition on her first day at a new school. First act of a three-act ballet, "The Choice", with music by Tchaikovsky.

It's almost Christmas and three boys are discussing various aspects of the big day, such as Santa Claus and the positioning of the figures in the manger scene beneath the tree, all in typical children's fashion. The next day, still excited by Christmas they go into town with their parents hoping to catch a glimpses of Santa in the store. Their parents tell them that Christmas isn't just about presents but also the birth of Jesus, but the boys are too excited about Santa.

Rhea vows revenge when her lover Eugene - a successful psychiatrist - becomes engaged to another woman. She hires another woman to visit his office and strip so that she can be discovered nude in his arms by his fiancé and superintendent. Having lost both his fiancé and his position, Eugene vows revenge.

An experimental film by David Perry.

"In FIRST TIME HERE, I attempted to freely associate two or three dreams with the story of the four women who had an atomic bomb display at a carnival. I wanted the film to be a fantasy which represented various life cycles and, in a sense, to be a celebration of the absurd mess man has gotten himself into."

The newest Southern electrified route, London-Southampton-Bournemouth, is the subject of this film. After a glimpse of the old days of steam, we follow travellers of all kinds as they experience the pleasures of travel which is clean, quiet, fast and frequent.

1968, 26 min

Japanese mouse Hashimoto and his American friend G.I. Joe went out to the night out, but end up getting chased by cat, and people throwing plates at them.

In CROSS-CUT--A BLUE MOVIE, Huot presents a minimal passage of intercutting between found footage of a hoochy-coochy dancer and a blue leader, organized as a pair of inversely related geometric progressions. The resulting film is amusing (because of the pun in the title, the speed of the editing, and the funny fast-motion shimmy of the dancer); highly rhythmic (both because of the intercutting itself, and because of the rhythms added by the dancer's movements, the flutter of dust particles on the blue leader, and the waver of scratch marks on the footage of the dancer); and formally interesting because of Huot's creation of a montage which so energetically goes nowhere.

Eight unrelated humorous episodes.

A pilot for a musical-comedy revue starring Allan Sherman, with guests Lorne Greene, Jack Gilford and Angie Dickinson, plus a brief cameo by Danny Thomas.

The relentless fight waged by public authorities against drug trafficking… Moroccan gendarmes pursue kif (cannabis) traffickers in northern Morocco.

Henry Geldzahler, filmed ins oft focus against the sharply in-focus silver painted Factory wall, fills his time by placidly untying and removing his necktie, turning his collar up, retying his tie, and smoothing his collar down again.

A comprehensive footage of 1964-65 New York World's Fair.

A down-and-outer appears to need a job in the worst way. He looks in the want ads and finds a few businesses seeking applicants. He applies. Is he successful? Well, let's just say he gets something, but not exactly what you expect.

Kenji Kanesaka’s Hopscotch was presented as an event at Sogetsu Art Center in 1967, in order to create the sound recording for the film. Participants included filmmakers, musicians, and artists such as Yasunao Tone (composer), Yosuke Yamashita (jazz pianist), Jiro Takamatsu (artist), Shigechika Sato (film critic), Nobuhiko Obayashi (filmmaker), Rikyro Miyai, and others. Tone gave instructions to “hiku" (to play), a Japanese verb with multiple meanings which performers interpreted to play Majong, subtract numbers on a black board, pull the trigger of an air gun, saw a block of wood, draw a bow, etc.

In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles, known for his irascible personality and finely-crafted atonal music. Ruggles is seen enjoying pie a la mode and ruminating on subjects ranging from Christmas to his incomplete opera The Sunken Bell. The hand-painted film stock heightens the impressionistic vitality of this snapshot of the 84-year-old composer, who is heard paraphrasing Freud: "Everything that you do is a matter of sex. That is the great passion of life."

A critical yet sympathetic examination of the anti-war movement in New York City, shot in 1968, one year after the Summer of Love. The film traces the development group of activists on the Lower East Side. We see their growth from isolated, alienated individuals to a politically empowered community. Filmed between the protests at the Pentagon and the demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, it includes portraits of Abbie Hoffman, editor Paul Krassner, folksinger Phil Ochs and anarchist Tom "Osha" Neumann.

Shows the detailed steps necessary to achieve a high standard of cleanliness in a public restroom and presents the opinions, attitudes and personal feelings of the men who do the job, giving voice in particular to a janitor in a university building. Director: James W. Hall. Janitor: Hance Nelson.

16 mm, color, silent, 10 min. Animation of Seminole patchwork.

A heartfelt story of personal and cultural discovery.

1946. Western Ukraine in the flame of struggle of Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the occupying Soviet army. Brave rebels strike Soviets unexpectedly and get into the very nest of red officers.

A princess and a boy, along with their two animal friends, outwit a wizard and return a ruby back to an idol in order to help a guard transformed into a monkey.

12 films developed between 1965 and 1971 at the University of Minnesota which explain a broad range of advanced mathematical topics. Written and produced by Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Chandler Davis, J.D.E. Konhauser, William Oscar Jules Moser, Daniel Pedoe and project leader Seymour Schuster.

"Do something for the camera!" In the late twenties, 16mm home movie cameras became available and the well-off used them through the 1930s. Then the 8mm camera increased participation in the very events it recorded, drawing out the facts of who we are or play at being. In this film, Americans – across stages of life, across decades, in backyards, at a graduation picnic, on a beach and in other ordinary places – reveal silly, happy, intense and sad things about themselves, mostly with exuberance and dignity. The film is arranged without internal editing of the found sequences.

Married woman is thrown for a loop when her husband tells her that, before their recent marriage, his sexual relations were exclusively with hookers.

Experimental 16mm film

Educational film about exclusion and anger meant to be shown in classrooms, with a discussion afterwards.

A classical music concert can't go on while neighboring Luigi the village blacksmith works his noisy trade. Eventually, the problem is worked out.

A tale told with humour and pathos; a yarn spun between decks about an old salt whose bitter experiences one friendless dawn persuade him to abandon wayfaring for wading.

Beneath the Skyline. See Edinburgh through the eyes of award winning visionary Mark Littlewood as his alluringly artistic shots and stirring classical soundtrack.

A businessman and his secretary are moving around the world; as they have no time to lose, they use the most expeditious means.

A sexy mondo movie narrated by Nico Rienzi. Starring transsexual superstar Bambi.

On the Niger River, the island of Ayorou is home to a “singing stone,” an imposing boulder rock covered with cupules. It is used as a percussion instrument by local musicians who have come in a canoe. After long rehearsals, the artists will play their compositions to their audience accompanied by a guitar.

A parable of Charlie reaching the clowns with God's word

The Danish artist Henry Heerup's garden in Rødovre is also his studio. Here he paints in the summer, carving sculptures in the winter. His garden is filled with rubbish models, pictures for bleaching, and monuments of all sorts.

An outwardly happy suburban couple become involved in the play-for-pay racket for money and thrills.

A clergyman seeks a donation from a banker in this short slapstick comedy.

Saul Levine began Lost Note as a love poem to his wife but before he finished the film everything had changed. This film is all that was left – 68/69 was a period of violent transition for many. The film was formally challenging, editing footage with in-camera superimpositions and cutting b&w with color.

An artist and his girlfriend are awakened by a knock at the door. It is the poet Apollinaire, arriving to view his portrait!

Black and White 16mm UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. When the Bendell girls receive a Doll's House as a gift, they share in the pleasures of the miniatures with their classmates. Yet, The Doll's House reveals the class divides between the Bendell girls' upper-class friends and the poor Kelvie Children, who are forbidden to play with the other girls. Set in the early 1900s, the film captures class divisions though the lens of girlhood and play.

The Jimi Henrix Experience live at the Royal Albert Hall in London 24 Feb 1969. This is the much-bootlegged Royal Albert Hall show from London, filmed on Feb. 24, 1969. The show has never been released commercially but has always been popular on the underground circuit.

An experimental film poem in celebration of life and visions. Techniques include live action, animation, montage and found images. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A goofy guy and a drunkard wreak all kinds of loopy havoc in a small town.

After 14 months of living a Bohemian life in New York City, a young Canadian becomes anxious that he is "settling down." To quell this fear, he impulsively buys a plane ticket for an unspecified destination. About a week before his scheduled departure, he wakes up musing as to whether or not he will inform his friends and his landlord. When he suddenly becomes nostalgic about the city, he is angered by his own sentimentality. Nevertheless, he lapses into a reverie in which he recalls his stay in Manhattan--working at an unspecified job, establishing a relationship with a long-haired intellectual, and having brief affairs with a number of women.

With light-drenched visuals illuminating a screenplay of "dialogue and poetry," filmmaker Gerson made this short B&W experimental feature about a man who confronts the meaning of existence in a variety of cityscapes. Gerson described the film: "The narrative form expanded, utilizing non-linear sequences within a linear structure. Past, Present and Future are interwoven throughout to present a total, heightened reality."

BBC documentary exploring the changing lifestyles of the long-entrenched British traveller as society grows more industrialised and wary of those without a fixed abode.

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

A visual poem, vivid, lyrical, as intriguing in its colour fantasy as in the beauty of its images. This is an escape from a merry-go-round of painted horses suddenly turned to flesh and blood, making a wild plunge for freedom. But these are horses of extraordinary colour--lime, mauve, bronze and gold--as if caught in some mysterious kaleidoscope of the dawn. A triumph of technical virtuosity, these unusual effects were achieved in the printing process.

"Romeo and Juliet" is a 1967 Australian TV play based on the play by William Shakespeare. It was presented as part of the Love and War anthology series on the ABC.

"THE ELMS was my first sound film, in 1964, made after the assassination of JFK. I hoped that the title might bring to mind the American Elm tree, which was seen to be doomed by way of disease. The assassination of Kennedy in 1963 was a tremendously emotional blow and omen of things to come. The whole country watched the funeral ceremonies play out on TV, and I taped everything I could of those events – music, words, prayers, the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald , and more. I needed to make a film that would incorporate some of those sounds, but I also wanted to introduce other components. Some people assumed I was making an homage to JFK. That is not the case. I think it should be clear that what I was concerned about was the evolving state of our nation." –Abbott Meader

Identical cousins with mismatched Odd Couple personalities.

“Marijuana the Great Escape” was distributed by BFA and produced and directed by J. Gary Mitchell. This film tells the story of a young man who aspires to be a professional drag racer. But, he starts smoking marijuana, which impairs his ability to drive safely, and that leads to a terrible reckoning. The film was created in cooperation with the Inglewood Police Department.

A documentary film by Robert Allen Schnitzer, documenting the 1969 occupation of Stony Brook University by Students for a Democratic Society - the largest anti-war student activist organisation in the US at the time.

Short film by Robert Allen Schnitzer as a college student, exploring the workings of the unconscious mind, set against a commentary of the popular culture of late 1960s New York.

Color UCLA Student Film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Animation Workshop Film, hand-drawn animation short of a Nahuatl folktale of an ogre who eats men, but who falls victim to the magic of a young boy, Pablito.

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. In the slums of Queens, New York, Youth Board Officer Bob tries to connect with a gang of Puerto Rican and Jewish teenagers. "With thanks to The New York Youth Board"

Highlights of the life of John Grierson, documentary film-maker

The first film authorized by both the US & Cuban governments depicting the lives of upper, middle and lower economic-class Cubans. One of the best documentations of the early effects of Castro's revolution on the people of Cuba.