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A document of the days leading into, during, and after an annual instance of the 24 hours of Le Mans.

A short animated film about Day of the Dead by Mexican director Adolfo Garnica.

A variety of locals react to a napalm plant and an ensuing protest in Redwood City CA during the Vietnam War.

Spaghetti-house customers and lazy waiters, beware! A mountain of spaghetti may await you! Featuring the comical, fascinatingly simple drawings of Red Grooms, this quick film is sure to intrigue and entertain.

This is an animated glimpse of the greatest city that ever was, with a hint of its magic power and a record of its downfall. The dilemma expressed is not so much one of religious faith, but in the administration of religious duties.

A Terrytoons cartoon of 1968 with Sad Cat

In 1963 German filmmaker Dietrich Wawzyn set out to shoot a series of films for German television that took him through the southern US in search of American jazz and roots music. He contacted Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz, who jumped at the chance to join him and share his enthusiasm for regional musical traditions. Wawzyn made three films dealing with blues, gospel, and hillbilly music. The negatives to those films were lost. This film recreates the journey from the best elements still available and includes much previously unreleased footage.

A Story of boy meets girl

In a big city penthouse atop a skyscraper, a big society party is in progress.

Explains, through the story of a family that become naturalized American citizens, the meaning of the American flag, how it has changed through the years, how it is displayed and how one shows respect for it.

A stripper finds herself in hot water when decides to fetch a package for his gangster beau that turns out to contain a million dollars worth of drugs.

Behind Every Good Man provides a glimpse into the life of an African American transgender woman in 1960s Los Angeles.

Paris, France

A film recounting Khe Sanh, often considered the most important battle of the war.

The second year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of Tyogou.

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It’s only love: therefore it can’t harm you". Joyce Wieland.

Credits: Slides by Jackie Cassen. Choreography by Mary McKay and danced by her. Sound: Bach, The Beatles, and the voice of Ralph Metzner reading a "Psychedelic Prayer" by Timothy Leary.

Lou Reed faces the camera, posing with a large, partially unwrapped Hershey chocolate bar held up next to his face. He holds quite still throughout the film until, near the end of the roll, he blinks rapidly and tilts his head to the right.

This short animation about the perils of tobacco smoking takes us to the kingdom of King Size, a land where "no smoking" is illegal. Here, intoxication dangers and health risks linked to cigarettes are blissfully ignored, and non-smokers are unwelcome. A humorous invitation for young people not to start smoking, or if they have, to relinquish the hazardous habit.

The serendipitous invention of magic skis facilitates Art Furrer's escape from drab reality into pristine fantasy. He joins the other stars on an odyssey through the Rockies and the Alps. It's a children's story.

The Big Challenge is a 1967 NASA documentary on the construction of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, showing the development of the site on Merritt Island, FL and the construction of Launch Complex 39, including the construction of the Vehicle Assembly Building, Launch Control Center, launch pads and tracks. The

A fifth of Canadians live at the subsistence level. This is a look at that world, where the street is home, and where poor shelter, poor food, poor schools and poor health are the only certainties of life. Children, old people, the sick and the drifters are caught in it. It is a world filmed throughout Canada so that people who are not part of it can see it, think about it, and maybe help to change it. (NFB site)

A direct animation film featuring black and white full frame motion as opalescent as the dancing night sky. The abstract animation field textures subtly depict the infinitesimal nuclei of energy called Tanmatra, a moving field of aggregates of atoms and cosmic motion called the dance of Shiva. (Larry Janiak)

At Dublin Airport it's ten minutes to take-off, and Josie is determined to go to London. Her departure is delayed and this gives her irate husband and a nervous priest time to try to make her change her mind.

Two men and two women sitting around a table where they're playing strip poker.

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

Bright Sunday in Salamanca 8mm style

In 1967, a few months after the famous exhibition Arte povera-Im Spazio at the gallery La Bertesca in Genoa (when the critic Germano Celant defined the first guidelines of arte povera), Alighiero Boetti, at the age of 27, had a solo show at the Turin-based gallery Christian Stein. The first part the film explores the works assembled with iron, wood and industrial materials (Eternit, camouflage fabric, enamel paint), then shifts to the reactions and relations with the works of the audience at the opening (the artists Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Ceroli and Giulio Paolini, and the dealer Gian Enzo Sperone are recognisable). The black and white images are accompanied by a saxophone improvisation by Carlo Actis Dato. —Tate Modern

The Princess of Oobieland is interviewed in a television studio in New York City. Her responses, sometimes only barely discernible over the whir and clang of obscure machinery, are testimony to the closing of those gateways which we encountered in the first part (INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND).

Screen test of Paul Wittenborn, by Andy Warhol.

An impression of modern American architecture with examples from all over the country. It starts with Philip Johnson's very original glass house in New Canaan, Connecticut, and then goes on to show numerous other buildings of various types, such as office blocks, musea, private residences, educational buildings, churches, etc. Works of many famous architects are included in this graceful film, amongst them Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe

An animated parody of the American western movies.

A compilation of Schneemann's anti-Vietnam War group performances, this work merges film projection, sound and slide systems, light beams, audience and performer action in a sensory collage linking the exposed Illinois landscape to the devastation in Vietnam. Writes Schneemann: "I think of this work as an exploded canvas, units of rapidly changing clusters. A flow of energy which makes an active audience inevitable and necessary — not to mimic the performance, but to absorb relations within the space and between one another — to be correspondent to the materials and imagery, grasping a conscious and realizable wish to replace the performers with themselves."

Created at Bell Labs in 1965, this short film likely contains the first computer-generated animation of human figures in motion. The figures move (or 'dance') seemingly at random on a 3D stage.

From the work of Spain’s famed graphic humorist José Maria González Castrillo (Chumy Chúmez), an allegory of working-class life under the Franco regime.

Bollywood film from director JBH Wadia.

The lost 1960s 8mm footage. Depicts the every day rituals of the passionate bikers related to El Forastero Motorcycle Club (EFMC) and the influential chopper builder and artist Tom Fugle.

With Lea Iwanowa and Eddy Kazassian-Combo

A sick-o physician is obsessively dedicated to sexually ravishing every girl who crosses his twisted path. The press book promises "drugs for sex, fetishism, violence, lesbianism, voodooism, exhibitionism and raw hippie love... climaxing in a suspenseful surprise ending." The trailer shows lots of naked chicks and, to really get your engine running, actual birth-of-a-baby footage.

This film documents one of the most important struggles for education in the sixties. In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three New York City school districts to become part of an experiment in community-run education. In Ocean Hill-Brownsville, the community board requested the reassignment of several teachers perceived as racists. The request brought the wrath of the United Federation of Teachers, city and state bureaucracies, and ultimately a citywide teacher's strike.

Celebratory film from Ford commemorating Detroit's 250th anniversary. Reenacts scenes from the city's history and presents a tour of its streets, parks, skyscrapers, factories, and waterfront. NOTE: The film was broadcast on Detroit television and distributed through Ford's film libraries. Revised in 1961.

A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1 thru 14. On order of appearance: Robert Kelly, Jane and our dog Durin, our boys Bearthm and Rarc, daughter Crystal and the canary Cheep Donkey, Robert Creely and Michael McClure, the rest of our girls Myrrena and Neowyn, Angelo Dibenedetto, Ed Dorn and his family and Jonas Mekas (to whom the FIFTEEN SONG TRAITS is dedicated), as well as some few strangers, were the source of these TRAITS coming into being – my thanks to all... and to all who see them clearly (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

"It is really a rather simple film — a sensuous response to mid-winter, playing off light and dark, moving and still, animate and inanimate through the daydreaming of a one-eyed cat." — A. M.

Mexican-Ecuadorian film from 1964, originally titled: ‘The Misadventures of Don Ventura’. A musical comedy created in the style of traditional classic Hollywood cinema of the 1950s, with the purpose of promoting Ecuador to the world through an idyllic vision of the country that erased economic, political and social conflicts, while offering its national and international viewers the idea of a harmonious nation in the process of modernization.

British documentary.

An experimental film by Aggy Read.

A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.

The dream/nightmare of a young man who leaves his lover to participate as a subject of medical research.

A man takes his friend on a 'peeping Tom' tour of LA

In EIN TRAUM DER LIEBENDEN [A DREAM OF LOVERS], Monk meanders through a maze of Minoan bull-leaping, satyrs and revelatory rainbows.

This short film was made for TV by Eric Rohmer, it deals with the urban landscape.

1 of 2 screen tests of Dan Foster, by Andy Warhol

Documentary from British Transport Films

A man talks about heroin abuse and withdrawal.

Operation Noah's Ark crash-lands in Lake Texoma on its way to space.

Directed by Mary J. Tsosie and Maxine Tsosie.

Contrasts ancient and modern methods of irrigation along the Nile. Discusses the benefits of the dam at Aswan. Shows how the Nile brings fertility to Egypt and serves as a vital artery of transportation.