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A secret agent is assigned to protect a Vietnamese official who's traveling for talks with the U.N. His mission becomes more complicated when other agents who escorted the official for part of his journey start getting eliminated one by one.

Andy Williams celebrates the holidays with his entire family, including his siblings, The Williams Brothers, and his wife, singer Claudine Longet. The Osmond Brothers are also along to add some festive cheer.

The story of how the Bell System, in cooperation with NASA, developed the Telstar satellite and participated in the launch and the subsequent successful transmission of signals to and from the earth and space.

The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET Journal documentary.

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Filmed on the stage of London's Covent Garden. Includes extracts from Swan lake, Ondine & The Firebird.

Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention.

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

Frampton on Information: "Hypothetical 'first film' for a synthetic tradition constructed from scratch on reasonable principles, given: 1) camera; 2) rawstock; 3) a single bare lightbulb. I admit to having made a number of splices."

Short film By Robert Fulton.

Traces the rise of life on earth from primordial ooze to the present.

Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")

Foghorn Leghorn travels to the deep south to enjoy the sun, but must contend with two yokelish chicken hawks, Pappy and Elvis, who want to roast him for dinner.

Woody's take on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but Gabby Gator tries to steal the wolf's part.

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. In the slums of Queens, New York, Youth Board Officer Bob tries to connect with a gang of Puerto Rican and Jewish teenagers. "With thanks to The New York Youth Board"

The story of Geronimo, an American indian, and his brother.

A young schoolboy gives his class report on a TV western, believing the commercials to have been part of the story.

An animated cartoon which tells in pantomime about the mis-adventures of a door-to-door raisin salesman.

An early version of Jumpers - nothing happens at random - Doollee

An amateur tunesmith and a con man pool their resources in order to win first prize in a songwriting contest.

Phil and Bea, engaged to be married, are experiencing difficulty in resolving their personal conflicts. They gain insight from Eleanor and Jon, a couple with similar problems.

The sheet music for Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his fellow notes in performing this musical piece, but finds that one of the notes has become drunk.

When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation. One is a murderer awaiting execution, one an atomic scientist selling secrets, and one an international footballer about to get his hundreth cap.

Hands sculpted in stone, hidden in the niches of an ancient house, are regarded as sources of a curse by the present inhabitant, a country gambling addict. Indeed, he goes to an early grave after experiencing bankruptcy. The house passes to another family, one of whose sons becomes obsessed with the hands. (A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.)

Dean is joined by Frank Sinatra and their respective families for the Christmas show. Dean and Frank do a medley of standards. Frank Jr and Dino perform "How Do You Talk to Your Dad." Tina and Deana sing "Do-Re-Mi."

The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.

Rogers Rangers fight the French & Indians in Canada while searching for a waterway which will lead to this ocean.

A group of teens deals with the "New Morality."

One of the first American film introductions to Israel, this vitally interesting country - both objective and thought-provoking. Philip Stapp's animation carries us back 3000 years into Biblical times. Modern photography takes us into Israel, facing its new challenges, through 1964, as seen through the daily lives of several Israeli families.

This documentary about the Hippie movement was originally shown in three segments on NBC television's "Huntley-Brinkley Report." It follows several teen-age boys from a glue-sniffing party in their home town to the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco where they find marijuana and LSD. The film depicts a love-in, a Hippie wedding, Hippie dwellings, and curious tourists. The film also views communal farms inhabited by "runaways." The narration discusses the impact of Hippie culture on American society. Portions of the glue-sniffing scenes are identical to scenes in the film "Hello America."

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

"Ski The Outer Limits" is a poetic exploration of man's "conquest of the useless," his quest to expand the limists of his abilities. Racing, clowning, teaching, flipping and flying - the world's finest skiers define their limits. A philosophical narration brings the story home to anyone wishing to explore their limits.

The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.

Tarzan has to deal with slave traders who are making raids into African villages to get slaves.

Documentary/performance-film hybrid about the famed music scene in Nashville. Features performances from many stars of the day.

Misfit (also known as The Misfit) is a lost 1965 American faith-based educational film directed by Bob O'Donnell. It stars Steven Jones, Warren Day, and Sandra Peabody. It follows a high school drop out (Jones), a drug addict (Peabody), and a "religious dropout" (Day) who rekindles his religion and helps the titular "misfit" find himself. Produced by Empire Studios, the film was distributed through churches, schools, penal institutions, and military bases before a worldwide release by Youth Films.

In this kinetic tribute to his Ubu Films collaborator Perry, Thoms combined tests and offcuts from early films with film fragments found on Perry’s editing room at ABC-TV. The Textacolour marks were intended as homage to Perry’s pioneering handmade films.

In Africa, a professional hunter kills a male lion which is sacred to a local tribe which also practices voodoo; and when he returns to England, he finds himself deteriorating under the influence of a curse which they have placed on him for his sacrilege.

This is a short film reviewing Tire-au-Flanc by Jean Douchet and Eric Rohmer.

The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy.

An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.

The adventures and misadventures of a poor farmer who lives in a small cottage with his wife and daughter in the countryside.

A married couple from New York City escape the blistering summer heat by visiting a New Jersey nudist camp. When the husbands' boss finds out, he tries to entrap him.

Scheming Judy and her affable husband Jack move back east and shack up temporarily with her staid Aunt Edna. Edna's reclusive, auto-erotic roommate and business associate, Louise, takes an immediate dislike to them.

A hot young vixen is kidnapped and raped by a dangerous gang of heroine smugglers, who rape and kill anyone who gets in their way. Then a tough private detective is hired to track down the bastards.

The adventures of the Lemon Grove Kids in a Bowery Boys-inspired kiddie film.

An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark, and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

Confederate super-spy Johnny and his partner in crime Steve travel to San Francisco near the end of the Civil War, masquerading, respectively, as a singer/guitar instructor and a magic-elixir vendor. Once there, Johnny dons a fake wig, beard and mustache, and steals Union gold to bring back to the South, aided by a guitar that doubles as a gun.

Jeepers enters Creepers into a prize fight to get money to pay the income tax he owes.

Revolutionaries rise up against the Mexican government in California in 1841 is told through the story of doomed Mexican general Don Francisco Hernandez, who pits his troops against a tenacious team of revolutionaries led by his half brother, Don Michael O'Casey .

A free transposition of a Kafka novel: the peace of an imaginary insect is disturbed by three little balls.

While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...

The artist and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle is filmed against the sparkly background of the Factory. She looks elegant, solemn, and slightly sad. Her large-eyed gaze seems to avoid direct engagement with the camera; towards the end of the roll, she strokes her chin pensively.

Brenda, a young naive woman from the Midwest, arrives in New York to live with her boyfriend and is accosted by the lesbian landlady whom wants her to 'marry' one of her many conquests.

When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever.

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Short film by Gerrit van Dijk 1968

In 1969, Penny Slinger and her then partner filmmaker Peter Whitehead were given permission to produce a body of work in Lilford Hall, a decaying mansion in Northamptonshire, England. Shot over the course of several weeks while living in the estate with actress Suzanka Fraey (The Other Side of the Underneath), Lilford Hall documents the fractured intimacy between the three artists.