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Made by Robert Nelson and William Allan in cooperation with KQED-TV San Francisco. Starring an ensemble cast that includes Bill Gourley, Bruce Nauman, Nelson, Allan, and a host of others. "War is Hell is such a delicate blending of cinematic cliches, extremely realistic views of war (the effects on the individuals), and vaudeville blackouts, that I still cannot understand how they have managed to make it work and work so well." (from a letter received by a TV station that showed War is Hell)

This film portrays the changes that are taking place in Mexico, including the growth of a middle class society which is developing as a result of education and industrial progress. It includes views which show Mexico as an old country with new ideas, striving to provide a better life for its people, pointing out the Indian village and primitive open-air markets within a few minutes' drive of a city with beautiful parks, fine theaters, and office buildings.

A tale of two gold miners of the old west who struck it rich. The lonely life made them heavy drinkers, and one night when the heavyset and silent Dutchman wouldn't talk to the feisty little Irishman, he was knifed to death. The Irishman was hanged and the whereabouts of the mine lies buried with him.

Hummingbird is one of the earliest computer-animated films by the artist and programmer Charles Csuri. Aside from creating pioneering computer graphics systems, Csuri is recognized for introducing figuration into the language of computer graphics, which was often seen, even by artists, as a tool for visualizing abstract mathematical formulations. While Hummingbird creates a picture of its titular animal, the hummingbird’s ultimate, abstract annihilation also points to the compatibility between abstraction and figuration allowed by computer animation. To make the film, over 30,000 individual images generated by a computer were drawn directly on film using a microfilm plotter. Each frame was programmed using one punch card, an example of the complex and labor-intensive operations required by early computer animation. The prelude to Hummingbird provides an overview of the way in which the film was made—a useful primer for much computer-generated art of the time.

A tropical island fantasy.

Low-caste impoverished boot-polisher and masseur brothers deal with challenges while trying to improve their lifestyle.

SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against an unseen audience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

The last hours of a homicidal maniac. Incapable of talking to a man without killing him, or of making love to a woman. He is the absurd conclusion of the alienation.

Dudley, a hapless mailman bullied by a domineering wife, falls for a pretty young woman who comes to the post office every day hoping for a letter from her missing husband. Dudley discovers that her husband, a criminal, had been killed committing a robbery, but he feels so sorry for the woman that he begins writing letters to her pretending to be her dead husband. Complications ensue.

Actress Norma Sands explains why she committed a crime to actor Bob Dallesandro.

The story of John Barber, a Black man arrested for carrying a spear.

Another adventure of James Hound, secret agent extrodinaire.

An insufferable journey by 'The Pain Train' shows how seconds lost by staff, for one slight reason or another, can quickly add up; causing a train to be seriously late even on a relatively short journey.

A film by Michael Stewart.

This charming comedy drama is a triptych about a drifter who exerts an almost magical impact on everyone he meets.

A snippet of a seemingly lost film, added here solely for stunting purposes.

Weegee’s last film, a tribute to trash television and commercial culture.

"The first experimental films I saw were mostly trance films or reactions to trance films. [My] first films, like Anthony (1966), are rather like trance films; that’s part of the reason I didn’t think of them as my own." (Tom Chomont)

Bollywood 1972

Set to music by Beethoven, this lyrical portrait moves from a chilled and misty exterior to the crystalline interior of the Swiss chateau that King Ludwig II built for Wagner.

Cowboy-hero B-western with comical overtones. First of two in series.

SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Bollywood 1968

Portrays the growth of French industry and agriculture since World War II. Depicts farms of Normandy, fisheries of boulogne, steel mills of Nancy and the commerce and culture of Paris.

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Parody film of Batman & Robin. The superhero duo fight a villian named Mr. Fizz, whose plan to undermine the soda market threatens to destroy all of Gotham City.

Idealized “typical” family piles out of convertible and starts playing furiously. This is a "typical" California day.

Robert Lebar and Howard Kaplan use montage of newspaper photographs to present a political satire on Khrushchev.

Take flight with this short film about the sport of gliding, and enjoy a captivating journey into near space, where all the beauty of earth and heaven meet at the wide-winged engineless craft poised between them. Filmed over the mountains of the Laurentians and the Canadian Rockies, the film offers breathtaking views and whets the appetite for adventure.

A P.R. man having financial problems attempts to blackmail a country singer.

Circa 1953 Sewakram lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Bombay, India, along with his wife, Subhagi, daughter, Nirmala, and son, Lattoo, and works in the Flora Fountain branch of the United Commercial Bank. He is very organized, thrifty and plans to get his children educated, married, and also build a house. Nirmala befriends Kishore Kumar Shastri, who lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his widower dad, a Deputy, and runs two businesses for supply of sand and cement.

Short film release

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archae ologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who mke friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The cooks fool the police to whom the child ren have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all capture d. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel. By Jiminy by David Scott Daniel

As the Cold War bristles with menace in the 60s, the youth at Kielder Workman’s Club celebrate free time with an American dance called the ‘Twist’. But it’s the Faustian pact with industry this brilliant travelogue focuses on first as it maps the path of the River Tyne. The sounds of heavy machinery and graft pitch us into Newcastle’s shipyards and collieries, whilst drugs spin off a machine called Bliss in Winthrop Laboratories’ production-slick war against pain.

Satire on the advertising business in which a human-looking robot gets ahead in the office simply by repeating the last thing that he hears.

The coronation of Elizabeth Gladys II as queen of the United Tees and the other Commonstate realms took place on 12 May 1968. She acceded to the throne at the age of 21 upon the abdication of her father, Albert VI, on 12 December 1967

A lizard in his habitat.

Pictures the American painter Loren Maciver as she roams purposefully or idly during the four seasons of the year and observes objects, movement, and color that abound in city and country.

This exceptional film covers the goals of picture book programs, general planning, specific criteria for selection of good books suitable for varying age levels, methods of preparing for the session, and the techniques of group control. All aspects of the subject from broad theory to precise details about technique are covered in this filmed record of story book sessions in day care centre and libraries in the New York region.

A short documentary about the Iranian painter, calligrapher, and sculptor Hossein Zenderoudi.

Animated short film exploring notions relating to artificial creativity. In 1965, a filmmaker decides to collaborate with an electronic computer. The machine leads the artist on a somewhat psychedelic geometric adventure.

Steve and Kathy figure out how to break up.

The valor of our jawans in capturing the Haji Pir Pass is depicted in this short film. Glimpses of living conditions of the liberated people of the area are also flashed in this film.

This film documents a moose hunt conducted by the Trout Lake Cree.

This film is intended to explain to pregnant women whose babies are soon to be born what to expect from the labor and delivery experience. It addresses how to distinguish false labor from true labor, when to pack a bag for the hospital, what procedures will be carried out to prep the woman for delivery, the types of anesthetic a doctor might order, and techniques for minimizing discomfort. Changes in the cervix and uterus are illustrated with animation techniques, while the birth of the baby, including episiotomy and use of forceps, are shown in a real hospital room.

Film that documents the big wave riding at the famed North Shore of Oahu. Viewers are introduced to surf slang and culture, as well as Hawaiian music and dancers. Surf maneuvers are shown in detail and slow motion. This is the first surf film showing Hawaiian waves and surfers.

Eugene Raskin paints a word portrait of New York, as seen by lovers, adventurers, and the star-struck, against a background of jazz. He contrasts old neighborhoods with the bustle of the business world and discusses three fundamental standards used by architects and planners to judge the quality of a neighborhood - human scale, density, and variety.

Short film by Franco Vaccari.

In this film, Nauman, bit by bit, pulls five or six yards of gauze from his mouth. Along with Black Balls and Pulling Mouth, it is one of the "Slo-Mo" films that he shot with an industrial high speed camera.

The goings-on at The Interlude, a topless/bottomless go-go club in San Francisco.

Nauman shot two films in 1965, and despite their rudimentary execution they make a compelling diptych. Manipulating the T-Bar (1965) shows the artist delineating what would become his basic studio practice, arranging and rearranging a sculptural form within the constrained architectural parameters of the studio. Film of an actor pretending to be myself making a tape of the sound effects for the film “Manipulating the T-Bar,” on the other hand, introduces what would become Nauman’s consistent artistic persona: the absent presence.

An animated film of tiny images made of halftone and hard edges on rough and and smooth paper. They expand and compress, push each other, censor themselves, move, open, and leave an ominous feeling. Genuine home-made academy leader begins and ends this film. –J. D.

"This film covers the story of how a soap box derby car is built and raced, told from the perspective of Clarence Carter, Jr., a derby participant in Washington, D.C. Attorney General Robert Kennedy makes a brief appearance as the derby race starter. The film was produced and directed by Gerald Krell" (US National Archives).

Mexican feature film

A film by Robert Nelson

Experiences in a Victorian church.

Thirty Million Letters (1963) is a short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films.