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This early masterwork of electronic experimentation was created by Paik while he was Artist-in-Residence at WGBH in Boston. The title refers to the day it was made — September 23, 1969. Paik creates a stunning visual collage that fuses spontaneous, free-form experimentation with virtuosity and control. Paik manipulates and merges pure electronic abstractions, footage captured "live" from television, prerecorded material, and images recorded in the studio, including the faces of WGBH producers Fred Barzyk and Olivia Tappan. Exploring the interactivity of video and audio synthesizers, Paik processes these images with live and prerecorded sounds.

This film titled “Electronics in Space Travel” from the 1960s is presented by DeVry Technical Institute. It illustrates the role electronics are playing in man's conquest of space. Real footage and animations describe the future of manned flights to other planets, a space station on the moon, and other unique sequences.

This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space.

A subject struggles to break free from a cord restraint

The Magical World of K. Gordon Murray Presents All of the Famous FAIRY TALE CHARACTERS

Utilizing animated images, both representational and abstract, science professor presents lecture on atomic particles and use of electrons. Ends with a joke, as professor notes that "there will be no question of a government grant this year" (because of successful experiment bombarding atom with electrons.

Blind White Duration is a film concerned with constructing an experience from limited perceptions. The viewer is introduced to a limited range of images (a snowy day in Harrow, walking to the Metropolitan Line station) shown in brief fade-ins and outs or quick flashes. For most of the film, the screen remains white. This is a film about the light of the projector, the white screen and the white image which emerges out of it.

Short film release

The Ghost of Monk's Island Part Seven Ordeal by Fire

Three white kids travel down to Mississippi to help with voter registration. Murder, sex slavery and general unsavoriness follow.

An appealing portrait of the McCormick players, one of the last travelling theatre groups in Ireland in the late 1960s. Terence McDonald captures their variety show of songs, sketches and puppetry, along with interviews with the family members, most of whom were born into the business and have been on stage from as young as three years old. The audiences are diminishing due to the rise in television and showbands, but the family’s passion for the stage still burns brightly. RTÉ had scheduled this documentary for broadcast in 1967 but postponed transmission after the Apollo 1 explosion due to the unintended new context of one of Bert’s songs You’ll Never Reach the Moon. The film concludes with a song wishing the family goodbye with a final curtain call, with the family credited as Colm McCormick, Betty, Bert Patterson, Coral Patterson, Queenie White and Joe.

To show the habitat, life cycle and typical activities of the Barn Swallow.

An experimental film by Wayne Sourbeer from 1962.

Explores the worldview of A.W. Chesher, who has a special interest in painting steam traction engines.

A short film by Stefano Roncoroni.

In 1969, Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped 2.5 kilometers of coast and cliffs up to 26 metres along the coast of Little Bay, in Southeast Sydney, Australia.

"Thematically, it echoes the nature of the first film, but is ultimately quite different and more tightly constructed. I try to select some perhaps archetypal situations and things and present them as part of, and/or in relationship to physical interiors and exteriors and to abstract images in such a way that they all merge into complex 'inscape' that treats on man's bonding to his environment — with the very nature of the formal structure lifting the whole business out of time. The key to locking up the whole shebang comes individually to the viewer when he contemplates his own idea of Summer. If the film reminded people of, among other things, man's power to live both past and future in a moment, I'd feel that that was a great deal of what it was about." -A. M.

God sends a note to his supporters below, and they obey his every command.

Jao Insee, the fourth installment in Mitr Chaibancha's series about the masked crime-fighter Red Eagle.

Abbey Theatre comedy.

A little Martian lands on Earth near a circus and, with his ray gun, wreaks havoc for the ringmaster. He causes trouble until the ringmaster offers him a job.

Paul America (whose real name was Paul Johnson) chews gum, gazes around, smiles at people off-screen, and treats the camera to a series of slyly amused, seductive glances.

Merlin the Magic Mouse and his sidekick Second Banana find themselves in a small western town, where they encounter a nasty western bully...

A short film on Hungarian-born artist and sculptor Amerigo Tot.

Educational film shown to members of the US military to acquaint them with the Vietcong.

Italian comedy teleplay.

“Begins with a portrait of the filmmaker’s father, moves through imagery of various forms of transportation (cars, boats, trains, and planes), and concludes with a ‘Postlude’ in which filmmaker Jerome Hill deplanes from a jet.” –Gerald R. Barrett & Wendy Brabner, STAN BRAKHAGE: A GUIDE TO REFERENCES AND RESOURCES

A stationary camera set upside down and framing a long shot of the studio records Nauman, with his hands clasped behind his back, repeating a series of steps similar to those of Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk). The curious exercise combines pirouettes, goose steps, and crabbed, angled arabesques. The inverted image further disorients our sense of the maneuvers, which appear to be taking place on the ceiling. -- EAI

Directed by John Reeve.

Eric Andersen, wearing a blue-jean jacket and smoking, seems relaxed and cocky, intrigued by the experience of being filmed.

The camera zooms in repeatedly on Nico’s features, concentrating on her mouth and eyes.

Points out that mammals, including the anteater and seal, have hair and nurse their young. Shows representative members of mammalian groups - carnivores, rodents, ungulates, marsupials and primates.

Photographed through a mirror system to achieve radial kaleidoscopic images, the beginning portion of this film consists of fast-moving kaleidoscopic images of chairs, objects, and materials. In the second half, kaleidoscopic images of the Eames Office dissolve into a sequence of stop-motion shots of Charles and Ray seated in multicolored plastic chairs. The music is a jazz track composed and arranged by Dick Marx.

A study of the basic elements of film, first and foremost framing and the relationship between image and sound. The film consists of shots of a Spanish barber at work, a man telling stories, and the musician Louis Hjulmand playing the vibraphone.

With his film, Sugar Daddies, Scheugl leaves the cinema and projects the film in a place similar to the location of the filming: the film material consists of drawings on the bathroom walls at the University of Vienna.

This typical Thai drama of an innocent woman victimized in a situation she cannot control, stars the multi-syllabic Vilaiwan Wattanaphanich who had a small part in The Bridge Over the River Kwai. She plays the daughter of an impoverished farmer with no way to pay his mounting debts except to sell her off to a wealthy landholder. Once in this new household, the unhappy daughter becomes a favorite of the master and thereby raises the green demon of jealousy in the heart of the dethroned favorite. The angry woman does her best to slander the newcomer out of her exalted position, and it almost works.

A photographer takes artistic photos of a nude woman outside her English estate.

In this work, the number of the frames appears every ten seconds (240 frames), serving to count the number of frames.

Bandits rob mail from stagecoach. First in series of two.

A Short experimental film by Joaquim Puigvert

The first film of a French-Canadian girl shot in New York on Thanksgiving Day with the Bread and Puppet Theater going down the streets protesting against the war in Vietnam.

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A vignette of an older woman with a baby carriage sits in a park, taking in the surrounding sights: a couple kissing, a child skipping, merry-go-round. She adjusts the carriage. It is empty.

Co-maker: Willard Maas. A Valentine card from Willard Maas to his wife, Marie Menken, utilizing both animation and live-action photography. A "catch me if you can" game between two real hearts. –J. H.

" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy. The film traces the construction of two craven images made in the likeness of myself by Grooms and Gross. Then it switches to the sandhills of Nebraska where fat cattle walk around. There the film explores Grooms' biggest construction, "The Chicago Installation." The film rolls relentlessly onward to the West Coast showing, for the first time on any screen, a theatrical production we three put in the University of California. It marks my directorial debut on the stage and Red Grooms' comeback after ten years of exile from live theatre." - George Kuchar

Documentary on the life and work of the great sculptor.

Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker Tony Williams. Based around a painter and a composer wandering the city (and beyond), the film meshes music and imagery to show the duo taking inspiration from their surroundings.

A church-made amateur film which sees two Christian biker youths visit the legendary 59 club, where they meet its founder, Reverend Bill Shergold.

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

When a little Martian boy playing hooky crashes his "borrowed" saucer into the house, Casper shows him around, but the Martians are convinced that the saucer was stolen by humans and declare war on the Earth.

On a trip through Europe, Eric M. Nilsson and cinematographer Åke Åstrand stopped in the small French village of Saint-Agrève, in the Ardèche. During their stay the village was visited by a travelling circus. From the circus' arrival to the show and to the troupe's departure, the film documents every stage of their work.

Nico hires a babysitter drag queen (Mario Montez) to babysit her 3-year-old son Ari so Nico can go shopping.

An educational short produced by Disney which poses three questions to children in how they should deal with a given situation. This time a fight at school.

On midsummers night Anja and her girlfriends play an old game from folklore where staring into two opposing mirrors allows one to see the past and the future. In one vision Anja sees where a criminal hides the stolen loot reported on in the newspapers. She finds the location, snatches the loot, and sees herself being pursued by the criminal mobsters who want their goods back. However, Anja is a cunning lady and manages to stay one step ahead of them all the time.

"Pro Football's Longest Day" is a film documenting the 1962 NFL Championship game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants. It was a landmark production for NFL Films, marking their first paid venture and showcasing their innovative approach to sports filmmaking. The film, lauded by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, significantly impacted how sports were presented on film and television.

This episode is a study of the return of the spirit of romance to contemporary poetry, as exemplified by poets Robert Duncan and John Wieners.

Directed by Cesar Gallardo. With Dolphy, Dolphy Jr., Liza Lorena, Victor Wood.

A thoroughly intriguing look at the Barbican area as it was starting to be redeveloped to become The Barbican we know today.

Percy, a meek little guy, goes to a jewelry shop to have his watch fixed. Crooked jeweler Ralph smashes the watch with a hammer, telling Percy that it's out of style. He then proceeds to sell Percy a cuckoo clock with a little dead bird, which Percy replaces with a baby eagle (feeding it super eagle food). Percy goes away, and when the eagle begins to grow, it's too much for him. He returns the clock, and he and the eagle attack Ralph.