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A lost film featuring "Grand Ole Opry" style acts.

An educational short produced by Disney which poses three questions to children in how they should deal with a given situation. This time a game at school.

A safety short which teaches children the proper way to call the police or fire department in a pre-911 world.

Using fixed frame timelapse, 15 hours of a day in the mountains, showing the changes in the sea and sky, is compressed into eight minutes. Designed originally to be rear-projected onto a plexiglass screen framed in a false wall by a traditional wooden picture frame.

Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Short film release

A picture of East Sutherland in 1966.

A self-assured, chain-smoking ballet teacher gives macho instruction to a small group of tender young ballerinas.

This documentary covers the journey from Singapore to Los Angeles and New Guinea to Brazil. Beautiful color photography of the trip is expertly lenses but can lead to tedium during the 100 minute feature.

Stepping Stones - Abstract drama played out in light, color and sound - is made up entirely of original vintage light show projections, excerpts of which were featured in the 2005 Visual Music exhibition at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

Direct paint on celluloid by Galician surrealist painter Eugenio Granell.

16 mm, color, silent, 10 min. Animation of Seminole patchwork.

Keeping pace with rapidly developing social and industrial needs is the aim of modernisation on the North Eastern Region. The building of new marshalling yards, the improvement of passenger and freight facilities and the design of modern aids for speed and safety on the track are among the features shown.

Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."

“Les Désoeuvrés” perfectly captures the birth of the Révolution Tranquille, when many folks abandoned religion, rural lifestyles and family values.

The Change at Groote is a 1968 Australian film which examined how the Anindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt adjusted to the change in their lifestyle which resulted from the discovery of manganese on their land. The director and writer of the film described it as "a fragmented collage of images and sounds, intended to produce a direct emotional response" and "a study of a complete cultural revolution in less than a generation". It was produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit. It won five awards including sharing the 1968 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Golden Reel Award for Best Documentary for non-fiction "for both the adventurous film making strategies and for the sentiments it evoked", the Adelaide Advertiser (newspaper) Award for the Best Australian Film of 1968 and the 1968 Film Editors Guild of Australia Award.

Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane.

An experimental film by David Perry.

Film starring Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri and Saroja Devi B.

A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.

Classmates Rajesh and Manju are in love with each other and their marriage is on card. But Manju's rich neighbor Jwalaprasad's daughter Lata, a spoiled lady, also wants to marry Rajesh. Manju's father falls sick of stomach tumor but she does not have Rs.5000 required for an operation. Unfortunately, Rajesh is out of station for some work. She goes to Jwalaprasad for help and finds his wife at home who gives her money but on a condition. Manju should accept unmarried Lata's illicit child as her own and should never disclose the truth to anyone. Helpless Manju agrees.

Film starring Raaj Kumar, Saroja Devi B. and Chandrashekhar

Film starring and directed by Nirmal Choudhury

Perch of the Devil is about the hard rock miners of Butte, Montana, and the strike of copper miners in l959. The film reviews the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local Union No. 1 and the many violent struggles that have happened in the mining camps of the western Rockies. There are interviews with miners, and with victims of silicosis, a fatal lung disease among miners. The film also contains footage of mining operations in tunnels a mile below the surface.

1965 film starring Dara Singh, Parveen Choudhary and Jayant

1965 film from India

For a generation of young activists, the reality of war, imperialism, racism and the growing fragility of democratic liberalism was too much to handle. Force became a means to wrestle with this tension. As the discourse of a “country torn” finds its way into mainstream political analyses (for many the deep divisions in this country are not a new political reality), we should reflect on the writings of political dissidents and radicals. We should recognize the diversity of political analysis that is very much alive. The histories of armed struggle, if taken seriously, provide us with a means to think more critically about the center, and complicate its claims of moral and political right.

To the sound of a heartbeat and made entirely without the use of a camera, this film projects abstract forms and illuminations on a night-black background and suggests as Tambellini says, “seed black, seed black, sperm black, sperm black.”

An overbearing company president demands that his timid little employee ask for a raise, or he's fired.

1946. Western Ukraine in the flame of struggle of Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the occupying Soviet army. Brave rebels strike Soviets unexpectedly and get into the very nest of red officers.

A short documentary profiling the restoration and anniversary exhibition of the titular 4-4-0 steam locomotive, undertaken in honor of the Centennial of the start of the American Civil War in 1961.

James Whitney’s Lapis (1966) is a classic work of abstract cinema, a 10-minute animation that took three years to create using primitive computer equipment. In this piece smaller circles oscillate in and out in an array of colors resembling a kaleidoscope while being accompanied with Indian sitar music. The patterns become hypnotic and trance inducing. This work clearly correlates the auditory and the visual and is a wonderful example of the concept of synaesthesia.

Outtakes from Earle Pilgrim's Boutique Films, Ltd stop motion production of "Peregrinations of a Hat," screened March 14, 1965 at Projection Film-Makers; and other experiments in filmmaking and cinema verite, including Marcia Marcus and others yet to be identified from Pilgrim's artistic circles in New York and Boston.

One of the most powerful, thought-provoking collage films produced during the New American Cinema Movement. Almost schizophrenic in its kaleidoscopic barrage of images, this film dynamically conveys the bewilderment, frustration, annoyance, and anger of the modern generation in a stream-of-consciousness audio-visual onslaught of superimpositions. Produced by one of the leaders of the San Francisco New American Cinema Movement and a top producer of light shows.

Gloria has sex problems. She is a frigid virgin, but is also a "tease", who encourages sexual advances from men and then shuts them down when they respond. One night, after scornfully turning down a pass made by her boyfriend Paul, she is attacked and raped in her hallway. She finds that the attack sexually stimulates her and begs her attacker to stay with her, but the man--high on drugs--ignores her and leaves after the rape. The experience turns her from a notorious "tease" into a promiscuous nympho with a voracious sexual appetite--for both men and women. Complications ensue.

A juvenile court judge serves as grim storyteller to a young teen who ran off with a bank robber. The judge warns that even good teenagers can be "delinquent in good sense". He warns of the dangers of making-out in remote places, babysitting for strangers, and being picked up by someone driving a convertible in a town where every stranger is a sex-craved killer.

Mexican feature film

Haikuesque impressions of things observed, events remembered, nightmares experienced. . . the sky bursts in spectral madness.

Greg Curnoe's "No Movie" (1965) was originally filmed in 16mm using a 1938 Cine Kodak Magazine Load Camera. It was his first movie. The original music soundtrack was recorded by members of the Nihilist Spasm Band, but this sound recording has since been lost.

With narration and commentary by Dr. Ernesto Galarza, this film presents the Mexican-American civil rights movement in the Southwestern United States, and introduces community leaders and activists, including footage of Rudolfo "Corky" Gonazles and Cesar Chavez. Special emphasis is given to the challenges faced by newly urban Mexican Americans - rural farm workers who moved into cities where they could not compete for jobs, resulting in a large population confronted with a high poverty rate and its accompanying complications - poor education, substandard housing, and inadequate health care.

The building of the Ben Cruachan pumped-storage hydro-electric scheme.

A documentary short about modern egg production in 1964 America. The camera follows eggs all the way from the chicken coop to the refrigerated case at your local supermarket.

Illustrates the story of a worker whose wife and children are on vacation and who may have been in an accident.

A joyful portrait of Taylor Mead’s visit to Stockholm

A silent experimental short made in 16mm black and white.

Animated Short

Three TV "concretes."

Renowned jazz pianist Art Hodes hosts this hand-clapping, foot-stomping special on Chicago style jazz, featuring electric performances from J.C. Higginbotham, Tony Parenti, Smokey Stover, Eddie Condon and Barney Bigard.

Bollywood 1969

A dance poem. Optically reprinted film composited from video studio segments.

An educational film, made up of footage from other Disney nature films. This is the story of the intelligent wild dog of the West and how it has survived and adjusted to encroaching civilization.

Breaking a vow of silence, Ezra Pound reads his Canto I of 1917 to friends at lunch during the Spoleto Festival in 1967. The small group, sitting happily around their table is a gathering that sets the scene for a rare and intimate reading.

A document of the days leading into, during, and after an annual instance of the 24 hours of Le Mans.

A young woman from the city, having just married an old man from the country, starts having affairs while still on her way home from the wedding.