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Anandan and Venkatachalam are friends. Venkatachalam's daughter Sarala, following an accident, loses her ability to walk. A doctor informs Venkatachalam that he treated a similarly handicapped woman, who in the process of giving birth to a child, was cured and could walk again. Inspired, Venkatachalam marries off Sarala to Anandan, deciding that if Sarala is not cured within two years, the marriage will dissolve and Anandan can marry any other woman he wants. Anandan and Sarala live a happily married life. Sarala gives birth to a child, but is not cured of her handicap. However, Anandan refuses to abandon hope. The rest of the film revolves around what happens to the many problems of the characters.

Animated film about a weird creature travelling.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Drama directed by P.S. Ramakrishna Rao

This is the last Boobie Baboon cartoon.

A western in Berlin: Three men on the hunt, one man on the run.

Documentary following The National Dance Company of Cameroon during its tour in Paris.

Screen test of Henry Rago

In this short film, comprising a single shot, a man and woman take a car ride through downtown Manhattan. The woman speaks in double-talk Finnish, which is interpreted into a brilliantly beautiful story through subtitles written by O’Hara.

Two bored housewives answer a classified ad; sex, blackmail and whippings ensue.

The work of the British Red Cross at home and at its overseas branches in Hong Kong, Kenya and Uganda.

Tommy Joe Williams and Steve Brady go to a secluded riverside pool high in the Oregon mountains where fun and gaiety are the theme.

In Time as Activity - Düsseldorf (1969), David Lamelas visually reveals how the same moment can be experienced in different ways. The video is built on four sequences; in each one a fixed camera portrays the city of Düsseldorf from different locations during a lapse of four minutes. At the start of each sequence, a small cardboard sign appears to indicate the precise time when the four minutes were recorded; the frame remains still and encompasses a wide angle, in which objects or actions are out of focus. The activities that unfold before the camera and the way they pass are an account of the infinite ways in which the same four minutes may be experienced simultaneously.

Screen test of Harold Stevenson.

In this film a car engine is animated with the pulse and passion of wheeled competition and of love. In French with English titles at head.

This film reveals design proposals for the IBM pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It incorporates photography and animation to present the concepts, architecture, and overall look of the pavilion and to convey an impression of the exhibition's spirit and content.

Pirelli takes close-up details of her body in a diary-like format.

A series of Civil Defense spots explaining to American farmers what to do in the event of a Nuclear attack.

The Red Mountain Tribe hangs out in my backyard. "Lipton's lovely home movie PEOPLE, in its affection for valuable inconsequential gestures, indicates in the course of its three minutes why there has to be a continuing alternative to the commercial cinema." – Roger Greenspun, The New York Times

Composed of eight short films, this film is the first "action" of the Roman collective of Cinegiornali Liberi : a counter-information and cinema project "di tanti per tanti" promoted by Cesare Zavattini in 1968. Extract from Bulletin n ° 1 of Cinegiornali Liberi : "Proposals, protests, denunciations, interrogations, accusations, defenses, Vietnam, God, heart transplants, art, drugs, cowardice, classes, the moon, peace, peace war. Such may be the elements of the Cinegiornali Liberi . Cries or speeches? Messages of one, five, or ten minutes? In color or in black and white? [...] Well, you have to experience everything."

Hosted by Herbert A Philbrick, celebrated double-agent for the FBI and author of "I Led 3 Lives," this film is an excellent record of one of Philbrick's lectures about the evils of Communism he would give across the country.

An average cop is thrown off a bit by...a sudden birth.

Short animation combining abstract patterns with photographs of famous personages.

Experimental film, Polke plays Polke, Christof Kohlhöfer is behind the camera. Together, the artists present abstruse scenarios and breathe a secret life into everyday things with anarchic humour and subversive magic.

A static close-up of a clock. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Chambers in R-34 impressionistically documents the work of London, ON collage artist Greg Curnoe through rhythmic and softly focused close-ups. Curnoe’s art intertwines with Chambers’ daily routines: collapsing the art practice of Curnoe with the art of everyday life.

In the late sixties, the American saxophone player and living jazz legend Ben Webster lived in Amsterdam for a year. Webster, who was born in Kansas City in 1909, was a unique personality in the world of jazz and blues. In the thirties, he played with all the great names. During his Amsterdam period, he stayed with an elderly landlady, Mrs Hardloper, with whom he appeared on a national talk show. In conversations with Van der Keuken, he muses on the past; on the fantastic experience of playing in the renowned Duke Ellington band; or on one of his best friends, who was so deft at eating with a knife and fork. Short, fragmented remarks, which Van der Keuken has edited in a loose, improvised editing style.

"In Re-entry he successfully synthesizes the Yogic and the cosmological elements in his art for the first time by forcefully abstracting and playing down both of them..." P. Adams Sitney

Sergeant Snorkle is bothered by the lack of beauty at Camp Swampy, so he sends away for a Japanese leechee tree. While the tree is being planted, Sergeant Snorkle heads for a little R&R. Private Zero destroys the tree. Fearful of what their Sergeant might do to them for wrecking his tree, Beetle, Lieutenant Cosmo and Zero buy another Japanese Leechee tree from a local Japanese restaurant and plant that. The scheme falls apart when our heroes set their jeep in reverse and wreck the new tree.

A devout priest is thrown into public conflict against his atheist brother.

This assembly of home-movie footage, shot between 1961 and 1966, was made by artist and filmmaker Shead. Homegrown pop artist Martin Sharp and writer Richard Neville appear in a sequence covering the birth of Oz magazine. The film’s impressionistic fragments capture the mood of the youth counterculture in early 1960s Sydney.

The world is recommitting sexual-political suicide by daily insertion of missile-cocks into self-orifices. Complete with ejaculatory delusions, military erections, and the animated virility of Krazy Kat. LOTUS WING spends USA over us all as our lives are spent wiping up the remains of our self-destruct. Probably my last film in this genre.

Describes the technology behind digital computing.

Made at the height of the Cold War, "The Communist Threat" is an over-the-top 1960's drama film about a family in East Germany trying the escape to freedom in the West.

A MATTER OF OPPORTUNITY is an outreach film that was sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the National Medical Association (NMA) in response to the burgeoning civil rights movement in the U.S. and the limited opportunities afforded to African-Americans in the field of medicine. MATTER OF OPPORTUNITY signals a seismic shift in thinking and action within the institutions of education and medicine in the 1960s.

Children receive safety instructions from police officer at school. Police officer uses Roscoe the drumming bear to help children remember four safety rules. Four children experience situations where they call upon the golden rules to help them decide what to do.

A short feature by Alexis Klémentieff.

A housewife takes on many lovers...

The landmark computer demonstration given by Douglas Engelbart, on December 9, 1968

"Also painted and scratched. The globe of the setting sun disappears and reappears through the cross of a window on 2nd Street, as surely as night follows day."–M.J.

This film delves into the life cycles of various insects, highlighting their survival and adaptive strategies through the seasons. It showcases insects like dragonflies and preying mantises in their summer activities of feeding and reproducing, and then shifts focus to their unique winter survival tactics. The film particularly emphasizes the praying mantis's method of laying eggs in a protective case to ensure species continuity. Other species' adaptations are explored, such as aphids laying eggs on tree bark and swallowtail caterpillars forming chrysalises. It also touches on different hibernation methods and the renewal of life cycles in spring, with a new generation of insects emerging to continue the cycle of life. The documentary underscores the diverse and fascinating ways insects adapt to their environments throughout the year.

All the goals from the 1966 World cup

This film documents the work of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia. The first part features the company performing a dance on the legendary origins of Angkor; the second part covers a visit to the School of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. Scenes show dance instruction of both boys and girls, a dress rehearsal, costume design, and mask-making. The third part contains footage of the school's graduation ceremonies, including a presentation of novices to Queen Sisowath Kossmak Nearirath, patron of the school, and solo dance by Princess Norodom Buppha Devi.

"Epic in scale" Gen. Lew Wallace "One of the monumental white elephants of the western hemisphere" - Henry Holmes Smith

First experimentation with in-camera multiple exposure as a technique of self-expression.

Documentary about the Saltair resort near Salt Lake City, Utah, where the cult film "Carnival of Souls" was filmed in 1962.

Shot in thirty-two hours at the abandoned Baybridge Theater in Brooklyn, in cinemascope and Eastman color. The film was based on the one-act play of the same name by George Christopoulos, who also commissioned it.

Diary film about the life of a young couple.

An experimental piece of film-making by Margaret Tait, featuring three children at play in a burn and garden, splashing and having fun playing with water.

"A brief account of a city gang, it is praised in the museum's program notes for capturing “the joie de vivre and the prankishness of teen‐age boys.” But since the joie de vivre comes from sniffing glue and the prankishness includes mugging adults, destroying property and knifing one teen‐ager and then running away, I must conclude that one man's happiness is another man's horror, and I stick to my own sour reading." - Roger Greenspun, New York Times review, October 19, 1971

"This short film documents a day in our backyard while also standing in as a mini- creation myth. The film begins with word fragments written on the leader. There is sound, and the leader then lets there be light. Soon animal life appears on the earth, followed by people – and at some point, civilization and culture appear by way of a cast off TV set. Life continues as other events occur, and Time continually presses onward toward night. Throughout the film, we hear cryptic voices whose messages are unclear, and, as darkness descends and the TV set dominates, one voice from the ether constantly repeats a phrase. The sound is blurry, and as with a Rorschach test image, you will make of it what your inner life hears. I, of course, know exactly what the voice says, because I am the creator. But you will believe your own ears. (Spoiler alert. It’s in English). That’s the way of the world, and there’s no way out of it as far as I know." –Abbott Meader

With the news of Winston Churchill's death bringing the nation to a standstill, BBC Television presents an obituary to a beloved war hero and a much-respected statesman. Archive footage, stills and contributions from old friends and colleagues fill in the details to the colourful history spanning 90 years.

Produced by the U.S. Air Force, this vintage doc shows how advanced engineering keeps Americans safe from accidental detonations of nuclear weapons.

Here is what happened in a Toronto classroom when teachers occupied the children's desks and children became the teachers. The film grew out of another, Mrs. Ryan's Drama Class, where young children found their way into creative drama. There is food for thought in this impromptu reversal of roles.

Developing a new friend sometimes comes with discovering surprises. In this film, I experience when a personality changes so quickly that it appears to be two personalities.

...captivating in its filming of a variety of bubbles, to the accompaniment of Ravi Shankar's throbbing sitar, the film simulates, one assumes, the creation of the universe.

A documentary abstraction recorded at night in Los Angeles backed by the music of Stockhausen. It is a preliminary effort to organise camera and audio images through a cybernetic editing model and a digital computer. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

THE FILMMAKER RECORDS A PORTION OF HIS LIFE IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST (1968), presents an intimate, autobiographical portrait of Malanga’s summer in 1968, capturing fleeting moments with Warhol and other New York artists.