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About the life of the notorious 1920s Melbourne Australian gangster Squizzy Taylor including interviews and re-enactments.

At the Thunderbird Hotel, Danny, a reporter, sees camera buff Jerry take a picture of a passing maid. The photograph, developed in seconds, shows that the maid is nude; the camera apparently undresses the dressed.

TV's Whizzo the Clown entertains a group of kids by hosting a pretend circus show, and takes them out on a trip to see Santa Claus at the North Pole.

In 1967, Nino Benvenuti wins the boxing world championship, becoming a myth among young Italian men from the working class. They start seeing sport as a chance to break free from a life of poverty, hunger and heavy industrial jobs. The first episode of a series Mangini made about the struggles of young men looking for a better future.

Cool Cat has gone off to race in Le Mans; Colonel Rimfire and his robotic elephant follow, but they're no match for the clever tiger except that the elephant wins the race in Cool Cat's car.

Maureen Tucker, wearing a white turtleneck, has been posed against a dark backdrop, and is brightly lit from the right front, the left side of her face partially shadowed. She faces the camera solemnly, staring back from under her bangs; at one point she smiles briefly.

PSA video for explaining zip codes

Footage of an arm and a hand holding a block of lead

Major aspects of life in Israel are reflected in the faces of its multi-ethnic society.

I bet you didn't know that there are Many Moods of Skiing? Well come along and find out just how many moods there are in Warren Miller's Many Moods of Skiing. Join skiers like Stein Eriksen, Cal Cantral, Don Powers, Othmar Schneider and many more as they ski around the globe. From Switzerland, across the ocean to Vermont and Washington, then finally back to Chamonix, watch as a Polar Bear shreds Sun Valley, see how the skiers in Switzerland find themselves in Avalanches, and even take a ski lesson from Warren Miller himself.

The Ghostly Trio make mischief by slipping Casper an enlarging potion.

A commission organised by Richard Frank from the Grey advertising agency in New York on behalf of the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers. The concept was to make a film of Warhol's choosing - any length, any subject, any number of people. This was to be done in front of a live audience of ad executives and creative types. There is some uncertainty surrounding the film's projection history as being either a single-screen 66 minute film or a double-screen projection that would be 33 minutes in duration.

A mysterious object code named "Meatball" has appeared in orbit around the Earth. When the Military sends an android pilot in a new super spaceship to destroy it, it chickens out and sends amiable stoner Zero Bluitt instead.

Winner, special jury prize at Cannes in 1965

“An animated science-fiction film […] the blue balls represent blue balls.”

A documentary examining the December 5, 1967, demonstration against Dow Chemical's manufacture of napalm during the Vietnam War and its recruitment on The University of Iowa campus.

From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and across the studio; his stamping creates a generative rhythm reminiscent of native drum beats or primitive dance rituals. However, Nauman is not participating in a social rite or communal ritual—he is completely individualized. Isolated in his studio, his actions have no apparent reason or cause beyond his aesthetic practice.

The black and white collage film was originally made by Pilař at a time when he was getting acquainted with the expressive language of the Nordic band Cobra. At the same time, it falls into the period of his parting with academic modernism in favour of the new language of pop-art. He revisited his film collages and decollages supplemented with animated fluids accompanied by music by The Residents in 1984 as a screener projected onto various surfaces.

Ira Schneider

"Nancy and I were aware that our daughter Jennifer was getting ready to walk. She'd push her stroller around with great determination, and so I did some 'home movie' filming to document her efforts. On impulse, I also shot some images of Nancy, along with bits of our living surround, and built a curious little B&W film comprised of both 'positive' and 'negative' images. Something about worlds of the adults and the infant as different. Maybe that. Got it printed. Decided it needed more. Shot some color footage. Re-edited. This went on and off for a few years. Moments and moments of it. Finally I decided it had some cohesiveness. You might agree, or not. And Jennifer now teaches third graders and has two kids in college. Oohblah -di - Oohbla- dah!" —Abbott Meader

Instructional short about how children can change their activities according to the weather.

A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze.

The Aardvark finds further opposition, in the form of another hungry aardvark, to his aim of ant intake - and so ensues a battle of aardvarks for digestive possession of Charlie, with use of spread-on-ground thumb tacks and rubber cement, plus jet-powered stilts and a tripping rope.

Kurt Kren filmed pieces of feature films in the cinema without looking through the viewfinder. The missing sexual climax from the cinema was added by Kren in the form of insights and views from Otto Muehl's Libi Aktion.

"A study in light based on persistence of vision and enhancement from eye fatigue." -- M.M.

Instructional training film used to train police officers on tear gas use. Sponsored by Lake Erie Chemical Company.

This documentary, featuring clips from a variety of Charlie Chan movies, served as an introduction to the showing of 21 films as a part of an exhibition of Charlie Chan films at the Museum of Modern art in New York City. This film exhibition, entitled "Charlie Chan at the Museum of Modern Art", ran from March 4–17, 1968.

Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 film Joey revisits the life of the eponymous young boy, who at the age of seven had trouble finding adoptive parents, most of whom look for children who are still in their infant years. This film catches up with Joey after he has found a home, and reveals some of the problems he faces in adjusting to the routines of family life.

Reproductions, for instance, completed in relative speed after the lengthy process of making Rohfilm, explores the aesthetic and perceptual effects of the reproduction of just a single type of image: strips of black and white slide positives from the Heins' vacations in North Africa, Italy, and greece in the early 1960s. To make the film, the Heins cut these numerous small images into little strips which they manipulated by hand on a Movieola viewing machine. While one of them maneuvered the strips (inserted them into the machine and moved them in different directions), the other filmed the projected image as it appeared on the machine's small screen. They described the effect of this process as follows: "While filming the many different little strips (hundreds of them) a rhythm is gradually established: quick and slow changes, pauses, a stronger movement of the pieces and a slow insertion, their sudden appearance.

Higgins’s only feature-length film, THE FLAMING CITY, explores the dichotomy between the lifestyle of Higgins and his artist friends in SoHo, which was viewed as a threat to middle class American values, and Higgins’s well-heeled upbringing. The film employs several photographic techniques Higgins learned at the Manhattan School of Printing, including filters, hand-drawn patterns, and alteration of color. - Anthology Film Archives

This 1963 kaleidoscope of our culture, both its energy and its tawdriness, rolls out in a never ending babble from radio station 3UZ, and in particular their top DJ at the time - Don Lunn.

16mm Film by Al Wong.

GROUP I: GRASS (1969, 1 min, 16mm, silent) Grass to reeds to sky – the gradual melting of grass image to become the blue of the sky. ICE (1969, 2 min, 16mm, silent) Sensual icicle images in process of melting – drops of water eventually fall. SNOW (1969, 1 min, 16mm, silent) The mystery of snow illusion – a snow-covered walkway is followed to a short flight of steps to a bicycle wheel transposed by snow. VIBRATIONS (1969, 8 min, 16mm, silent) “VIBRATIONS is a truly photographic poetry, a transformation of sunlight into art light.” –Michael Snow

"I wanted badly to make an animated short and had no camera available. I did have some old, unused film stock and several roles of 16mm sound tape. So I used that- plus a variety of of discarded surgical instruments and the sharp edge of a screwdriver- by cutting, etching, and painting directly on both film and tape."

Kamal, Azman, Bakhtiar and Tijah are the children of Musyid the wealthy businessman. Kamal normally spends most of his time drawing portraits. One day he came to know night club singer and wanted to draw her portrait. Their relationship lasted till they both decided to get married. Kamal's father and Leela's father disagrees with their wishes. They both decided to run away and get married. They both lived a happy life eventhough it was very much an ordinary life. A year passed and Leela gave birth to a child. Kamal had to wrok extra hard and taking up an extra job as his drawings didn't make much money. One day Tijah, his sister came to see them and informed of the recent news that his father has passed away. When the will was read he was not left even a single cent of his father's wealth.

Patton reflects on his inner city life in psychedelic San Francisco, contrasting that with his attraction to solitude and remote mountain landscapes. An underlying Buddhist perspective attempts to mediate these very different realities.

"Spattered paint responding to gravity, forming its own patterns and combinations of color." -- M.M.

Photographer and filmmaker Perry’s concise film-poem uses graphic matches (grapefruits, balloons and bubbles) to convey anxieties about fatherhood.

A 16mm silent four minute reel from ca. 1964 by Barbara Rubin. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

A pithy commentary, in cartoon form, on an encounter between the forces of construction and destruction.

A little girl enters a building on Sunday in Wall Street and finding it empty begins to play with the machinery....

An attempt to fuse together the media sources Kriwet encountered on a trip to the US during the hubbub surrounding the Appollo 11 mission to the moon. Grainy television footage is cut and pasted together, paired with a soundtrack of radio broadcasts, sometimes allowed to flow, at other times cut down to single repeated words and looped announcements, to mesmeric effect.

Lou Reed, posed in profile wearing dark glasses, slowly eats an apple, chewing carefully between bites; there is no camera movement.

The Fellini of Foam's fifth and last film before The Endless Summer, Waterlogged is made up of highlights from Bruce Brown's four previous films. This film features the best of four years of surf photography.

UCLA student film

Golfer Sam Snead shows the audience some tips and tricks in this humorous CinemaScope short.

This film gives a general outline of the kinds of work being done in The Boston-Cambridge area by National Resist and the New England Resistance.

A 1961 industrial film produced by Centron Corporation for Monsanto, illustrating modern herbicide methods and the fight against unwanted vegetation.

News documentary from 1968 hosted by George Foster, exploring the legacy of oppression that remains over 100 years after the abolition of that peculiar institution. In Part 1, Foster visits Charleston, SC, and speaks with both descendants of slaves and slave owners. The cameras capture a sermon by Rev. Henry Butler of the Mother Emmanuel AME Church (where Denmark Vesey planned an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1822 and Dylan Roof would later kill 9 church members in 2015). In Part 2, the cameras go to Mississippi to speak with former sharecroppers and political activist FANNIE LOU HAMER. In the final segment, we travel to Chicago, where Prof. JAMES TURNER and activist CALVIN LOCKRIDGE educate young people about revolution. Ebony Magazine editor and historian LERONE BENNETT offers a poignant analogy to describe the times we are in today.

The conflict between the innocence and commercialism of Christmas is illustrated by urban scenes of a parade featuring a spaceman and rollerskating donkey, the observations of an entrepreneur selling wildly colored trees, and the operation of a “Rent-a-Santa” service.

A television producer helps a woman assaulted on the waterfront and takes her to his apartment to recover, where she recounts her recent adventures in New York and he discusses Nudism.

One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.

"This film shows my life with my family in the Triemli high-rise in Zurich." (HHK)

Part of George Moreno's 'The Merry Music Shop' series.

This pilot looked to be a welcome addition to TV animation, a series of skits with oddball characters doing their own things, with Joey Jingle (a boy with a bell on his head) being used as a framing device.

A young woman looking for love in the big city instead finds herself being used for sex, posing for a nudie photographer and seeing a shrink.

Ed Kimble, a structural ironworker, is followed during his workday building a skyscraper.

A few "pop" and "death" symbols seen through the eyes of a young French schoolboy.