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When a Rolls Royce damages a scooter, the furious owner goes to seek redress, and finds herself face to face with a millionaire capitalist.

"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I shot with other reference material into a surreal visual collage." - Penny Slinger

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This 13-minute short subject, marketed as an educational film, records a slice of life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles prior to the rebellions of 1965. Filmmakers Trevor Greenwood, Robert Dickson and Alan Gorg were UCLA film students when they crafted a documentary from the perspective of the unassuming-yet-articulate teenager Felicia Bragg, a high-school student of African-American and Hispanic descent. Felicia’s first-person narrative reflects her hopes and frustrations as she annotates footage of her family, school and neighborhood, creating a time capsule that’s both historically and culturally significant. Its provenance as an educational film continues today as university courses use "Felicia" to teach documentary filmmaking techniques and cite it as an example of how non-traditional sources, as well as mainstream television news, reflect and influence public opinion.

A hypnotic dance film of colours, dancers, forms, music, all sweeping through the TV tube eye, mixed together into a flow of female bodies and colours, a brilliant study of colour printing from black ad white. Collaboration on the project by Brown/Olvey.

Marcy is forced to change her sexual orientation because of town rumors.

Hector is slinging hash at a Klondike saloon. When he drops a tray of drinks, he is booted out the door, landing at the feet of a man who just happens to have a claim to a gold mine. He buys a false map from the shyster with his last dime. The man tells Hector that he will get rich. He goes prospecting and hits it big.

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The cooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel. By Jiminy by David Scott Daniel

A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtrack speaks of his despair, makes impressionistic statements and little songs, quotes Greta Garbo and Maria Montez, tells the story of a lonely little boy and tells the story of a woman named Madame Nescience who dreams of herself as the Mother Superior of a convent of sexual perversion.

An American woman in Italy falls in love with a man, unaware that he has an insane wife hidden in the attic.

Another in a series of Warner's economy cartoons featuring clips from previous Bugs Bunny-Yosemite Sam cartoons. After Sam is killed in each pursuit, he meets with the devil, who goads him into continuing to chase the bunny.

Rather than adapt a later or create a new Oz story, this production has Dorothy still in posession of the shoes, and she clings to an apple tree during a tornado which takes her back to Oz. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion (using the names created for the nearly-abstract television series, Tales of the Wizard of Oz, from which this was derived) have had their MGM gifts destroyed by the restored Wicked Witch, and the four proceed to the Wizard for help, who is ineffectual as usual.

Billy is a teenager and enthusiastic photo hobbyist who takes pictures of his mother carrying on with another man, but is too naive to realize his mother is engaging in more than innocent horseplay. When he innocently shows his pictures to Daddy, he unwittingly starts a melee that ends in Daddy's accidental death and Mommy's mental collapse and confinement in a hospital. Enter Aunt Janet, Daddy's sister, to take care of Billy. Supposedly a frigid woman who "can't stand men", Aunt Janet is nevertheless loving and affectionate with young Billy, and when she sees the fatal snapshots, she even takes their relationship to the next level. But can their happy life together survive the return from hospital of a still-disturbed Mommy?

Quacky Whack tries to get on Noah's Ark. Hilarity ensures.

Two women fight with fists and pistols.

The famous ship called Mayflower is trapped amidst a huge storm. The entire story is narrated by a church-mouse called Willum, from his viewpoint. The tale begins with the pilgrim preachers deciding to move to America and getting aboard the Mayflower. However, because of the huge storm, the ship gets on the verge of sinking. Then, Willum, the pilgrim mouse, comes up with an idea to save the ship. When the pilgrims land safely, they write the Mayflower Compact and start constructing their new church and colony. However, it is already the autumn season and they do not have much food stored for the winter. The pilgrims then learn to plant crops during the spring season and celebrate a big feast toward the onset of the autumn season or fall. This is their first Thanksgiving celebration.

An experimental short in which a couple engaged in lovemaking is superimposed over ocean and beach scenes.

A minimalistic animation of scribbled texts and shapes, set to an impressive sound collage that skewers advertising.

A jealous sex-film director follows his wanton girlfriend around as she hops from bed to bed on one long night. Originally presented in 3-D.

This lurid documentary offers a revealing expose of various deviant activities being practiced in that seething hotbed of sin and hedonism known as Los Angeles. Among the subjects shown herein are a young couple who are paid to have sex in front of leering voyeurs, a gang of rowdy bikers, a French artist who makes fancy designs out of women's pubic hair, a wild swinging Hollywood party, and an exclusive club of wealthy perverts.

“Condemned” (c.1960s) is a color fire prevention film presented by Fire Prevention Through Films. It was produced by Julian Olansky in cooperation with fire departments across Connecticut (Andover, Eagleville, Hebron, Mansfield, Willimantic, University of Connecticut Fire Dept.). The film warns against the dangers of fire and not having a proper fire safety plan. The film starts out by focussing heavily on the risks associated with carelessly smoking cigarettes at home before showing other scenarios that can turn deadly.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

When an American attack on the German-held town of San Corrado results in the Germans being forced out of the town, they don't have time to take along a top Italian partisan leader they have captured and imprisoned. Fearing that the Americans will turn the man loose to organize more partisan attacks on their forces, the Germans send one of their top agents to infiltrate the town, posing as an American soldier cut off from his unit, and assign him to re-capture the partisan leader and bring him back for interrogation--or, if that's not possible, to kill him.

1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The indiscreet and silent camera, suspended above the bed thanks to a mobile platform controlled by a winch, can then surprise the sleeper in her sleep and enter with her in the world of dreams.

TORTURED FEMALES is one of few surviving films distributed by super-cheap Mitam Productions, which was essentially like a west coast version of New York City's Distribpix.

Foghorn Leghorn decides to take an egghead genius chick out to the woods to distract him from his long-haired atomic science books and teach him about such practical things as scouting and woodcraft, but finds that the kid is more knowledgeable than he in these matters.

News documentary on artist Leonor Fini.

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

Sylvester Cat and a tough bulldog escape, chained together, from a transport vehicle headed for the city animal pound and make like convicts on the lam.

Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along with clips from many of the shorts that made the duo stars, it includes clips from a 1918 comedy starring Laurel on his own as well as scenes from three shorts Hardy made in 1917 and '18 with his original comedy partner, Billy West. To put the duo's work in context, the film briefly features other comedians who worked with producer Hal Roach.

One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.

In this classic 1969 documentary, the Man in Black is captured at his peak, the first of many in a looming roller-coaster career. Fresh on the heels of his Folsom Prison album, Cash reveals the dark intensity and raw talent that made him a country music star and cultural icon. Director Robert Elfstrom got closer than any other filmmaker to Cash, who is seen performing with his new bride June Carter Cash, in a rare duet with Bob Dylan, and behind the scenes with friends, family and aspiring young musicians.

Ms. Leha (Noran Nordin) who was a wealthy widow had just divorced her husband, Azman. He has a son named Amir (Karim Latif) but was taken to Medan, Indonesia by her former husband. The absence of her husband and children were making lonely. Therefore, he asked his servant named Salmah (Oradawan Jamil) to give her daughter up for adoption. Then, coincidentally Salmah husband had just died. As much indebted to the employer, and has worked in the house for so long, Salmah gladly handed her son, Ani (Hamizon). Ms. Leha has also considered Ani as his own child, not as a foster child for having defended him since childhood.

Sophia Loren, who was born in Rome and lived there as a child, returns to the city that will forever be in her blood and gives her impressions of and reactions to the mosaic of Rome and the people she encounters there during her visit. She meets Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio de Sica as she visits the sights, affectionately commenting on the grandeur of the Eternal City and the irrepressible nature of its people.

Documentary about an east german soldier working alongside the Berlin Wall.

Breath governs life and is also the sign of changes in emotion.

Woody Woodpecker, hot, hungry and thirsty, is walking across a dry, bleak Western desert.

a Terrytoons Cartoon

A cavalry unit rides into a Comanche trap. If the patrol leaders cannot find a way out, they will all surely perish.

Four "women" enter a bar and create chaos. This spoof of Never on Sunday (1960) was the first film made by a group of gay men who frequented a Los Angeles gay bar, The Brownstone, for Sunday brunch. Rarely seen today, these films, made at a time when gay lives were universally portrayed as tragic, remain a unique affirmation of the pleasure and joy gay people take in their lives.

A short film by Piotr Kamler from 1961.

A camera-object travelling through landscape records images of static objects/textures apparently moving, all at variable rates, depth cues constantly changing, the illusion problematic doubled, and representation confounded as projection produces the opposite - a travelling landscape. This was my first film and, as with later films and video work, in some way parallels issues I had been working through in my sculpture'. DH.

Second part devoted to the New Wave, it highlights all the problems (from production to exploitation all the way to distribution) faced by young filmmakers in the French film landscape of the 1960s.

An early James Bond drag parody.

Film in Which There Appear... is a six-minute loop of the double-printed image of a "China girl" or "Shirley card", her image off-center, making visible the sprocket holes and edge lettering on the film. According to Land, within the loop, "no development in the dramatic or musical sense" occurs. Fred Camper described Film in Which There Appear... as "a kind of Duchampian found object, a [...] film that focuses attention on the medium and the viewer." There also exists a 20-minute "widescreen version" involving two prints of the film projected side-by-side, with the left print flipped horizontally so that the "China girl" forms an almost complete face in the center.

Young Laura leaves her small town, where she has been subjected to sexual harassment and finally raped, for New York City. However, she turns into a nymphomaniac who sleeps with both men and women.

A struggling Hollywood actress is dragged by her agent to judge a beauty pageant in a nudist colony.

Sanctus intercuts three Mexican rituals of parallel structure: the Catholic Mass, the bullfight, and the sacred hallucinogenic mushroom ceremony of the Mazatec people.

An examination of changing sexual attitudes in the United States, including comments on the personal and sociological significance of the changes of the time.

An entry in the Bell Science animated film series, on the nature of time.

When a British secret agent's body washes up on the coast of Ireland, evidence implies that he was a traitor providing information to the Russians.

Follows the work of sculptor Charles Daudelin. Without dialogue or narration, director Pierre Moretti traces the adventure of creation. We see a gigantic sculpture as it begins to take shape, and finally when it is placed in the National Arts Center in Ottawa.

Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.

Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas.

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventative officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited with the father.

A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realises he must either break out or break down.

The harried wife of an incorrigible cigarette smoker confines her husband to an institution that promises to break him of his habit.

A lyrical, surreal film populated by an assortment of human beings, creatures, places and events.