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A film about the discovery and development of the West Sole field. Dedicated to the memory of the 13 men who died on the BP platform Sea Gem in 1965.

Mexican feature film

A producer searches for talent to headline his burlesque show.

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Four young white boys, wrestle and fight over a vollyball while wearing rubber face masks depicting President Johnson, President DeGaulle, Chairman Mao-Tse-Tung and Nikita Khruschev. An African American boy watches the struggle, and when the white boys abandon the struggle over a vollyball, he picks it up and attempts to reinflate it. A striking Cold War allegory critiquing global imperialism.

A young woman named Phoebe Russell, is filmed wearing beads and a flowered dress; she gazes slightly cross-eyed at the camera, looking pretty but also increasingly melancholy as her eyes tear up. The Screen Test was one of the few shot by Gerard Malanga.

The tale of a young boy who discovers a pair of magic sneakers that allows him to create thunder and kick a ball really far.

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

SONG 29: A portrait of the artist's mother (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

An NBC documentary, which set out to expose the Pennhurst State School, which has since been described as the shame of a nation. Having opened its doors in November of 1908, this state-funded school / hospital became extremely overcrowded within a short period of time, taking in those who were suffering from mental illness or criminals, orphans, etc., i.e. people who could not be housed elsewhere. The school quickly became the center of a human rights movement which eventually revolutionized America's approach to mental healthcare.

A wolf eats all the sheep except one little baby. The baby sheep doesn't have anyone else, so he follows the wolf around. The wolf is annoyed with the sheep shadow at first, but they soon become friends. The hungry wolf tries to sneak past the sheepdog. Then he gets himself hired by the farmer (who "seems" to be dumb) by coming up with the zaniest of excuses when he keeps getting caught with another sheep! The farmer does have the last laugh!

In response to the Detroit riots of 1967, where racial tensions in the city reached a breaking point, the city decided that the way to resolve these tensions would be to put more resources into employing Black people. Namely, chronically unemployed Black men who they refer to as "the hardcore." And predominantly, employing them on the line in auto assembly plants. But in the words of Lloyd Love, a young Detroiter interviewed in the film, this PBS documentary poses the question, "Do you think a job is the answer?" The film explores this question in 1968, by speaking with workers, unemployed people, union activists, students, people who implement city-run employment programs, members of DRUM (Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement), and the Detroit Industrial Mission.

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications System in Alaska. Introduces the people and geography of the new state as well as the Western Electric radio-relay system, which links far-flung military sites, alert stations, and missile-warning facilities. Ralph Caplan praised the film's "intrinsically dramatic and highly photogenic" portrayal of communications equipment.

The plot of this particular episode revolves around a Kangaroo cub’s disappearance, concluding in a graveyard where ghost rabbits sing a song. This sequence really has nothing to do with the rest of the picture, of course, but somehow it seems par for the course in this world.

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

A film about the war in Vietnam, compiled from American news-film sources, Vietnamese cameramen and suppressed Japanese television footage. Music by Morton Feldman. Voices of Lyndon Johnson, General Khy, army field commanders are juxtaposed to the reality of the war.

AFL-CIO short about barbers and beauticians.

Song 28: Scenes as texture (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

This is the only cartoon to feature Squeegee.

Bollywood 1969

Bob Wooler, Cavern Club DJ and compere, takes us on a tour of Liverpool to see popular beat groups and local sights. Merseybeat groups perform aboard the Royal Isis, on a double-decker bus, at the Cavern Club, the courtyard of the Town Hall in Castle Street, on the grounds of the Liverpool Cathedral, a pub named Gregsons Well and across the Mersey on the beaches of New Brighton. Performances from The Fourmost, The Hideaways, The Clayton Squares, The Hoboes, The Mersey Monsters, The Richmond Group, The Spinners, and Tiffany.

A film by Michael Stewart.

The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation of an actress/character that hovers between documentary and fiction" - Scott MacDonald

First broadcast by ABC on February, 1960, To The Ladies surrounded Frank Sinatra with a host of wonderful female performers for his third Timex sponsored television special. It s a mix of comedy, opera, dancing and great songs. Guests include Lena Horne, Mary Costa, Barbara Heller, Juliet Prowse and former First Lady and human rights activist Eleanor Roosevelt, who performs a moving version of High Hopes. First broadcast by ABC on May 12, 1960, Welcome Home Elvis was Frank Sinatra s fourth and final Timex special. It marked Elvis Presley s first TV appearance after coming home from military service. Elvis performs Fame And Fortune and Stuck On You whilst Presley and Sinatra join forces on great renditions of Witchcraft and Love Me Tender. Joining in the fun is the one and only Sammy Davis Jr. who delivers songs from Porgy And Bess, celebrity impersonations and a dancing contest with Peter Lawford.

A documentary by Swiss Photographer Michael Wolgensinger.

Ali defends his title against Cleveland Williams

Video by Aldo Tambellini.

This film is a documentary account of Operation Sea Otter Transplant, a joint effort of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to relocate sea otters and reestablish them in their former ranges. The otters were airlifted from Amchitka Island, a site of AEC underground nuclear tests, to Southeast Alaska and the Pribilof Islands.

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak family gathering is sandwiched between superimposed garden scenes and rebellious direct animation. The soundtrack consists of assorted tape loops.

The first documentary entirely devoted to the FLQ. This film focuses on the founders of the underground organization. It alternates between archive images retracing the actions of the first FLQ members, their arrest and trial, and a collective interview with four FLQ activists - François Gagnon, Jacques Giroux, Jean-Denis Lamoureux and Raymond Villeneuve - carried out after their release from prison.

On behalf of the Arvin Corporation, Buster Keaton demonstrates the importance of using Maremont auto parts for potential repairs while running a petrol station.

"A Claes Oldenburg 'happening.' A black statement about the City in which two people represent the populace after a bomb raid." S.V.

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

Producer/director Gordon Eastman takes his two sons on a journey to the wilds of British Columbia fishing, hunting, canoeing down miles of wild water, living with Indians and trapping beaver.

This unusual film shows how pain - the death of a child - can become a way of seeing, a spiritual experience, instead of only a woeful experience as we are taught. DEAR LITTLE LIGHTBIRD carries the viewer into the world of the mystical vision, where the eternal beauty, spirituality, and unity of life and death are experienced. Beautifully photographed and deeply moving, it was awarded 'One of the Ten Best', International Cinema Competition, Photographic Society of America.

Experimental film made by the husband and wife duo. The human form takes center stage, while The Electrosoniks (Philips Recording 600-047) set an other-worldly tone.

Scat the Cat is chasing a mouse through a novelty store.

Edie Sedgwick, wearing no make up, her eyes wet and swollen as if she had been crying, looks sad for a while, then she laughs briefly, talks to people off-screen, and seems to cheer up, flashing a huge smile at someone off to her right.

An avant-garde anti-war animation.

In the performance piece, Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility) 1959-62, he offered empty spaces in the city in exchange for gold. He wanted his buyers to experience The Void by selling them empty space. In his view this experience could only be paid for in the purest material: gold. In exchange, he gave a certificate of ownership to the buyer. As the second part of the piece, performed on the Seine with an Art critic in attendance, if the buyer agreed to set fire to the certificate, Klein would throw half the gold into the river, in order to restore the "natural order" that he had unbalanced by selling the empty space (that was now not "empty" anymore). He used the other half of the gold to create a series of gold-leafed works, which, along with a series of pink monochromes, began to augment his blue monochromes toward the end of his life.

An experimental film

The quintessential student film of 1969.

December 1956. The region by the Tisza is evacuated because of a threatening flooding. Laci, Karcsi and Péter leave their home on the lorry

Mario Masini, collaborator of Alberto Grifi, cameraman for Carmelo Bene and cinematographer of Teza 2008 by the legendary Ethiopian director Haile Gerima, explores the lithograph by the artist Emilio Vedova that gives the film its title. A wide range of movements over the lithograph and editing that alternates accelerated sequences of urban landscapes, daytime and nocturnal interiors, unfold against a background of a cut-up soundtrack from different sources. —Tate Modern

When Sally Mae's boyfriend Tarzan is expelled from high school for peddling marijuana, she rebels against her middle-class background, thinking that he has been treated unfairly. She joins Tarzan in his East Village hippie "crash pad." He organizes a profitable racket, luring suckers from uptown to watch the wild parties that take place in the "pad." He appeals to their sympathy to extract large sums of money for the supposed rehabilitation of the young female participants. The racket is so successful that other operators, including Big Daddy and Butterfly, join in the enterprise. After several months, Sally Mae learns about the racket and goes to live with a businessman she met at one of the parties. Big Daddy, Tarzan and Butterfly seek her out to make sure that she doesn't talk to the police. They abduct her, give her an overdose of heroin and leave her dead in the basement of a Village flop house.

Surveys the rise to wealth and power by industrial giants with references to Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. Shows the growth of monopoly and the emergence of trusts. Suggests the role fraud and corruption played in the establishment of monopolies.

The opening moments of "Psyche Out" introduce a young boy who craves the adventures achieved in the surf. The boy -- or at least his dreams -- seem like they could provide a recurring framing device for Walt Phillips' third film (following "Sunset Surf Craze" and "Surf Mania"), but that's the last we see of the boy or hear of ambitions. "Psyche Out" contains less poetic musing, travelogue, comic relief or similar stuff characteristic of surf films of the time, in favor of surf action at Malibu, Point Zero, Rincon and Steamer Lane. This is to the benefit of the film.

Jeff Keen thought that some of his previous films had been dominated by long-shots. In this film he grapples with the language of cinema, not as a means to inspire audience identification, but rather to make up for an imbalance.

Impresario spurs Sad Cat on to victory against his siblings as a race-car driver.

An intimate slice of life portrait capturing all the characters and flavor of Maxwell Street.

The colour of Scotland as seen through the eyes of Eddie McConnell. Abstract shapes in nature.

A Hungarian orphan girl searches for new parents in Austria. In an Austrian circus, she befriends an elephant and a wolfhound.

Essay on dualism in the snow.

Alan Whicker examines the highly competitive world of horse racing, meeting jockeys and stable owners.

"There were also explorations of what Sam called 'Sun Strobes.' This is a process of directly looking at the sun with closed eyes and then spreading the fingers of both hands extended fully in front of the face and then moved up and down. This has a strobing effect for the sunlight landing on the eyelids and creates sets of interesting visual patterns for the closed eyes. With 16mm cameras, Sam and I went to the Nitobe Garden. It was late Spring or early Summer of 1965. Sam filmed me engaging plant forms like green leaves and holding them up to my eyes and observing the visible structures of the leaves." -Gary Lee-Nova

The Poon Tang Trilogy (1964, B/W, sound) is a brief film composed of three 3-minute segments: in the first tableau, footage of the Hindenburg disaster is projected on the nude body of a young woman; in the second section, Civil Rights protesters are dragged away into police vans to the accompaniment of the '50s r&b hit "I Just Love Your Sexy Ways"; in the final portion of the film, another young woman attempts to remove a floating black bar which seeks to obliterate from the spectator's gaze various portions of her anatomy.