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From Beirut to the Lebanese mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean, there is a rich and lush land where nature presents itself in all its beauty.

A BBC Television Training film that pulls back the curtain on how TV was really made in the 1960s, clipboards, call sheets, and all. It’s a fascinatingly dry yet oddly hypnotic look at the mechanics of production: script breakdowns, scheduling, budgeting, and the careful choreography between departments that kept live and recorded shows on air.

Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and instant censorship. He fled Croatia and lived in Germany; he died there in 2004. Poor People, a “collective scream” of Cold War fear, was produced just after he left his country.

The gang build a raft to ferry them across a canal, with just one problem; getting the raft to the canal.

The Bonzo Dog Band freak out at the farm and strange sounds abound.

Life in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Film by Hanns Anselm Perten.

“Using experimental techniques in animation, the film is a poetic evocation of the metamorphosis of the carnival character of Pierrot.” - Melbourne International Film Festival.

A piece of reality, a roman square, observed in a way to achieve a more intense self-perception. –A. L.

A couple wants to have a child. They go fishing at a lake known to be inhabited by little boys...

The story of how the aluminium industry came to the Scottish Highlands.

An extraordinarily beautiful and simple science film about the history of biological ideas that shows how they expanded as technology improved. Filmed in museums and in the Cambridge University labs where Whitehead had been a student, THE PERCEPTION OF LIFE was filmed through microscopes used by scientists from the 17th to the 20th centuries, including the electron microscope in the MRC unit where Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA.

A grotesque review of actions performed in vain and those of frustration incarnate: it is about the vain attempt to button up a pair of briefs, the failure of a cavalier, a voyeur, a couple taking part in a dance contest; five fragmentary scenes running backwards and forward, standing upright and on their head, accelerated and recurring in cuts that vary in length. A film about the voyeur in the auditorium, who is made to participate in the frustration, and about the underlying schmaltzy music, he actually shares in. (Jörg Peter Feurich)

Lilan, the heroine, reconciles herself with the breakup of an affair.

Yuri Gagarin's triumphant visit to Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris suburbs, for the Cité Gagarine inauguration.

Investigation in 1967 on the profession of variety singer. Round table with young singers little known at the time, including Michel Fugain: his hopes and the difficulties of a young singer. They give their opinion on the programmers. Two programmers, Jean Peigné and Lucien Morisse, give their criteria for selecting records. Eddy Mitchell discusses the phenomenon of stardom and the keys to success (source: Média Scérén).

At night, a young thief boldly breaks into an empty office, but his petty theft goes unexpectedly wrong.

Experimental short.

Kren frames the image to suggest a proscenium, with a view to the harbor that conveys a literal sense of “tele-vision”. The static framing of the image and the clearly stratified mise-en-scène can hardly provoke interpretation. The sight of the girls does so all the more. Kren, the gentle voyeur - who turns the viewer into a secret accomplice - observes three teenagers, and probably like them, awaits a rendezvous. (Thomas Trummer)

A look at the popularity of music, both classical and electronic, in the mid-sixties.

Allegory of a man who leads the people to destruction and then is reborn to recommence the cycle.

This film confronts the failures of the Cuban economy, although it is made in a Guevara-like spirit of moral exhortation rather than criticism.

The hard work of a family of farmers during hay-making season.

An ironic film about the 1966 beauty competition to find Miss Germany.

Almost as if entering the picture frame by chance, mute characters lean out of Viennese apartment windows, simply to have a look.

A middle aged man got cancer and doesn't know how long he got left to live. He has to undergo therapy.

The spotlight falls on some of the aspects of the social services in the Germany.

A look at the dredging of the River Thames so the new big ships can sail along.

A young girl rescues a wild bird. She takes it back to the forest, then finds crystals in the mountain...

A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.

On the occasion of the »Construction Days« in the autumn of 1969, the Hamburg Building Authority commissioned five HFBK film students to film one Hamburg commercial each. Christian Bau opted for a critical portrait of Osdorfer Born, Hamburg's first large-scale, prefabricated housing estate, which had been built from 1967 by Neue Heimat, SAGA and other housing companies on the western edge of the city. The images, shot on 16mm, were accompanied by interview passages and a text taken from SAGA's housing construction program. The client was less than enthusiastic, the film disappeared into a closet for decades and can now be shown for the first time in the cinema.

A cat burglar hides from the law by posing as a display mannequin in a lingerie shop.

Adolf Winkelmann films his future mother-in-law, who is requested to talk about him, the film-maker, who is standing opposite her with the camera. Frau Schmidt talks about her initial prejudices against the long-haired, bespectacled artist and about the way she overcame them as she got to know him. Adolf Winkelmann said of his film: ‘Depiction of constancy of opinion and change of opinion after confrontation with the object of the opinion.’