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Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three working-class lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory.

a pet puma being taken for a walk

A trip around the clubs, pubs and discotheques in London, England.

While describing the area conservation schemes currently organised by the Civic Trust, this film indicates the importance of the public's role in preserving the human environment. It aims to alert us all to the need to guard our urban environment from erosion by the rapidly changing demands of the twentieth century.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the famous Tower of London Ceremonies.

A man interviews people. Michael Dudok de Wit graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with this film.

The practice of Structural/Materialist Film is defined in...process, construction, displaced reflexively...not displaced uniformly into the pattern of a narrative bound up for the stable subject-centred image. Structural/Materialist film has no place for the look, ceaselessly displaced, outphased, a problem of seeing, it is anti-voyeuristic.

Time and movement have traditionally been used to establish the illusion of space in film. In this film I have tried to de-emphasize both these illusionary properties by altering the space within the camera rather than the space in front.

Emily - Third Party Speculation is the second of a ‘domestic trilogy’ exploring the relationship between the restricted camera viewpoint and the construction of documentary narrative. The other two films in the series are Blackbird Descending - tense alignment and Finnegan's Chin - temporal economy. Constructed around the repetition of ‘neutral’ domestic scenes, this film attempts to address the problems of identification in cinema.

Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.

' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.

An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be a groundbreaking combination of electronic and manual animation. One of the first films produced specifically for video disk.

'I'm unusual. I really want to be an architect. Always have done. Always wanted to build fine buildings and fine cities where people can work and eat and sleep and be happy. But the rules of the game say before you can do that you've got to start a firm. Employ people. Turn it into a career. I like architecture. I hate careers. The minute you make it a career you build a ladder and people want to climb it. Sometimes they stand on your fingers. It's hard to draw with flattened fingers. Spoils your draughtsmanship.'

Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.

Artists, designers and engineers extol the virtues of steel.

Aired as part of BBC's 'Nationwide' programming, this documentary captures the leadup to 'The Tour of Life'.

“Go on. Go mad – let her in. We’ve let in twenty-odd thousand already. She’s pretty, and Leicester could do with a decent few birds.” 19 Year old Indian girl Taruna Patel arrives at London Airport on her first visit to England but an immigration officer suspects she may be hiding something about the facts of her trip.

Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen is a three-minute black and white film which begins with a portrait of Karen Blixen taken from a photograph.

A mysterious airship attacks the towering city in the sky and only comedian Max Beeza can save the day.

Rock Goes To College (RGTC) was a BBC series that ran between 1978 and 1981 on British television. A variety of up-coming rock oriented bands were showcased live from small venues and broadcast simultaneously on television and radio. Cheap Trick performs at Brighton Polytechnic in 1979. 01 Hello There 02 Introduction 03 Come On, Come On 04 Stiff Competition 05 Ain't That a Shame 06 Need Your Love 07 I Want You to Want Me 08 California Man 09 Surrender

Commissioned by BBC TV as the unannounced opening piece for their Arena video art programme, March 1976. Programme produced by Mark Kidel, conceived by Anna Ridley and presented by David Hall. 'Richard Baker [the well known newsreader] describes the essential paradoxes of the real and imagined functions of the TV set on which he appears. The second shot is taken optically off a monitor, the third copied from the second, and so on, until there is a complete degeneration of both sound and image, removing the newsreader from his position of authority...' - Tamara Krikorian, Art Monthly, February 1984.

Elizabeth Sussex's exquisite documentary about a rural Scottish school, edited by Gladwell.

British soldiers are captured and interrogated in post-World War 2 Palestine.

Man trapped in front of – and then inside – a television, as a Tory political broadcast swirls around him.

Documentary about Edward James, an aristocrat who patronized surrealist artists such as René Magritte, Leonora Carrington, and Salvador Dalí, among others. His life is a whole catalog of incredible moments that constitute the prelude to his final monument in the middle of the Mexican jungle: Las Pozas, a surreal garden filled with giant structures as useless as they are beautiful. James divorced his wife Tilly Losch in 1934, accusing her of adultery with Prince Serge Obolensky, an American hotel executive; her countersuit, in which she made it clear that James was homosexual, failed. James was actually bisexual. After the divorce, James joined a social set in England which included the Mitford sisters and the composer Lord Berners.

Tom Waits live: Chicago, IL, USA, PBS Soundstage 1975 & London, UK, BBC Studios, "Live in Person" TV Show

A documentary covering the Second Chimurenga, the Zimbabwean War of Liberation.

Dogs are like their owners - grey-hounds are nasty, staffords are for fighting. You can't blame the dogs - it's nature.

Deliriously kitsch recruitment ad for the implausibly glamorous world of coalmining.

Jolly sing-song with an important message; switch off all appliances before going to bed, because your life could depend on it.

Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into conflict with both the state and the church.

Experimental film consisting of two super-imposed (in camera), continuous looping camera movements across a short stretch of the English Channel. A light swell, two marker buoys and a pier are the only features, apart from the repeated rotation of the camera play.

Central Office of Information profile of actress, Glenda Jackson discussing her roles in Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Women in Love, as well as views on the profession.

Madison Avenue, the centre of the American advertising industry, is the subject of the last of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in the United States. At a time of recession and nine million unemployed, $26 billion a year is still being spent on advertising.

A family conflict ensues after Owen, the youngest of the proud military family Wingrave, expected to continue the family tradition and become a soldier, rejects violence and war and proclaims himself a pacifist.

A poet's eulogy to his beloved mode of transport.

Footsteps is in the manner of a game re-enacted, the game in making was between the camera and actor,the actor and cameraman, and one hundred feet of film. The film became expanded into positive and negative to change balances within it; black for perspective, then black to shadow the screen and make paradoxes with the idea of acting, and the act of seeing the screen. The music sets a mood then turns a space, remembers the positive then silences the flatness of the negative.

John T. Davis’ first in a trilogy of films (including Protex Hurrah (1980) and Self-Conscious Over You (1981)) exploring the Belfast filmmaker’s local subculture and American cultural influence. It provides a look at the burgeoning punk scene in Northern Ireland, featuring early footage of bands such as Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, Protex, The Outcasts, and Rhesus Negative, among others. (from: http://artistsspace.org/programs/shellshock-rock/)

Pam is concerned when her husband’s ex-wife comes to visit. She seems to be both dangerous and romantic… Is she a threat?

A man stops at an Inn and is seduced by twin sisters.

Film cameras take us behind the scenes as Michael Crawford explains the detailed preparations for some of the hilarious but extremely dangerous stunts that are a special feature of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.

Susie, a transgender bartender, deals with four patrons who stumble into her place of work. She grows wary of the two men and the two women, the latter of which are underage, and tension begins to mount and escalate between all of the characters.

Health and safety animation

Documentary about war photographer Don McCullin.

John believes his faith has the power to cure. When he returns to help on his father's farm, he finds it can also kill.

The Shorts and the Talls just can’t see eye to eye until a mediating fairy arrives to help them make ends meet.

An impending gunfight moves from a conventional confrontation to a confrontation with audience expectation as camera action predominates. A film in which the less you see of what you expect - the more there is exposed.

Four adventurers become trapped in Magnet Mountain's abandoned Castle of Satan. To escape the citadel's strange and terrible demonic attacks, they flee into a deep underground labyrinth. Here they discover a vast subterranean kingdom peopled by bat-winged beasts & devils whose hierarchy is headed by King Satan himself! To save their souls the adventurers must assist Satan's minions to infiltrate the mortal world above - but a clever stratagem foils the plan!

Wilson pays a visit to his friend Werner, in Berlin, in 1939. Elsewhere, a troubled young man seeks psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud in London, but Freud is unwell.

Humane recruitment film made for the prison services, following three new recruits on a tour of a facility.

A BAFTA award winning documentary featuring the design, construction and installation of the 30,000 ton steel drilling/production jacket for a BP oilfield in the North Sea.

TV play by Bernard Kops. Moss is a miser whose only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes and Moss is "reborn".

'I'd stake my reputation on it. These photographs are not faked.' But how could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?

Christopher Mason's documentary presents a retrospective of the arts in the immediate post-war years (1945-51), when patronage for 'public art' was intended to promote a cultural renaissance to complement that in education, health and housing. A dream of universal access to Britain's cultural heritage is shared, with use of archive newsreels, though can the dream be made reality or is art simply a luxury most can't afford?

When Hell's Angels hit Muriel's seaside town she grabs daughter Karen and follows. Years ago her husband rode away on his bike and left her, but it's always possible that she might find him - or someone! As it happens both mother and daughter have unexpected encounters

A 1975 anti-terrorism documentary short written and directed by Anthony Friedman that warns employers and employees of public services about the dangers faced by the then IRA bombing campaign. Included as an extra on the February 2022 Blu-ray release of Friedman's film Bartleby, from Powerhouse Indicator.

Rupert Skern's Saturday morning peace is shattered by the arrival of workmen in his garden

The freedom ceremony of the regiment of the Black Watch, in Aberfeldy, Scotland where it was first founded.

7P is constructed around the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas and incorporates similar picture and sound fragments recorded over the Christmas period 1977-8. Using the song as a determining framework, the film is edited so that picture and sound recorded on consecutive days are juxtaposed in each verse. The film is partly concerned with the abstract tensions produced by the day to day variations in picture and sound, but it also plays upon any expectations which arise from familiarity with the carol. Through repetition, nonsensical juxtapositions of word and image start to acquire their own unfathomable meanings. – J.S.

Sequence of animations and random footage (Olympic torch lighting, rituals etc) which were "based on ideas of Hans Hollein; created for the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Museum's opening exhibition: Man transForms", 1976. Nine designers worked with Hans Hollein in the "MAN TRANSFORMs" exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design: Nader Ardalan, Peter Bode, Buckminster Fuller, murray grigor, Arata Isozaki, Richard Meier, Karl Schlamminger, Ettore Sottsass, and Oswald Ungers.