Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

Oysters Are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations. Utter foolishness abounds in short skits that range from an employment interview with an applicant whose previous experience has left him physically uncontrollable, and an unsuspecting golfer who arrives for a first lesson, to scenes of mayhem with a hammock and a chinese lantern masquerading as an artificial kidney.

Screen test for Andy Warhol, 1966

One taxi driver, the other mechanics or masons. They drive a moped as Johnny Halliday and wear pants Zazous. During the weekend, they play in a real western with guns purchased at the supermarket, loaded with blanks. They love violence, their favorite actors are Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford. The heroine is selling at the Galerie du Niger. When the Nigerian filmmaker Mustapha Alassane turned the return of an adventurer, the first African western, Serge-Henri Moati wanted to make a film about film. The cowboys are turning black traces and proves at the same time the reality and fiction, film and life, sometimes extremely close, especially when it comes to the Wild West ..

The film takes us back to World War II. Hitler’s soldiers capture the hero of the film and taking the caprice of an SS officer as an opportunity, he saves his own life and his friends thanks to his accurate throws into a basketball hoop.

A story about a young feisty female street vendor who undergoes a change when she became a helper of a rich family.

The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.

Photography: Willard Maas and John Hawkins. "Looking down instead of around, while walking, finding the magic patterns in the pavements of a city."--John Hawkins

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

A sex-crazed man is forced to abstain from sex. But the sedatives given to him by his doctor causes side affects when taken in overdose which cause him to hallucinate about sex, wherever he is.

Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution — these people meet in a ski resort bar somewhere in the High Tatras. During one night they gradually reveal their unfulfilled dreams, illusions and disappointments of ”average" people of those times.

Four guys share an apartment while attending art-school.

Ogawa Shinsuke’s directorical debut traces the struggle of four students who lead the opposition against the Ministry of Education’s proposed revision to the university correspondence school systems in 1966.

Pikk Street is one of the most important thoroughfares of Tallinn’s Old Town. The picture playfully combines hidden camera footage with more observational images, employing shots from unusual angles; these are accompanied by specific sounds and interesting musical themes. The result is a true cinematic adventure.

Three romantic-comedy sketches in a movie financed by Cuernavaca's Dept. of Tourism.

Follows the life of Hull folk group The Watersons, which is made up of brothers and sisters Michael Waterson, Norma Waterson, Elaine Waterson (more commonly known as Lal Waterson), and their cousin John Harrison, as they spend a large amount of their time on the road in their van travelling between one folk club and the next.

A glimpse into the nature of loneliness. Frances Hyland plays the part of a small-town girl who enjoys position and respect in her community as the owner of a successful dress shop, but who wonders if marriage might not have been a better choice. Disturbed by thoughts of what might have been, she resolves to live each day as it comes.

A musical TV play based on the musical "My Fair Lady" by A.J. Lerner with music by F.Lowe, based on Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion". The ballet master of the TV play is Kirill Laskari.

Iraj, a key member of a criminal gang, gets shot during a robbery. The police, aware of Iraj's twin brother, prepare him and infiltrate him into the gang. They then meticulously monitor all details and eventually apprehend the criminals.

Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Eve, the old professor zsongják beautiful wife surrounded by colleagues. When the professor's going away for a conference abroad, intensifying the suitors attempts. Eve, however faithful to her husband, so that the denials are increasing. Oddly enough, the rejected accidents ...

A picture of East Sutherland in 1966.

International Velvet poses in a sequin dress and oversized earrings, whip in hand, as the camera zooms in and out erratically.

The dance floor of a cruise ship. As each passenger is chosen, they choose a song on the jukebox and dance to it. But one passenger, playing a joke on another, selects a different song first. He keeps choosing that song, and eventually fills the jukebox with coins. It plays the same song over and over, and everyone is compelled to dance with the ship itself getting sick, while the man who was the brunt of the joke escapes in a rowboat.

A gruff highlander leaves his village and heads to the town and harbor where he will embark for Australia. We follow his descent to the sea through three stories

Video by Aldo Tambellini.

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory.

A romantic teen comedy about the rivalry between an Agrentinian man and a young American for the love of a beautiful girl from a rich family.

An overview of Osborn manufacturing equipment, in particular their load runners in utility plants and factory environments.

André is a loser. He dreams of becoming a great writer and being sought after by wonderful women. To make something interesting happen in his life he visits political meetings.

The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window.

Despite protests from the engineer Gafur Kayumov, the head of the design bureau, Tursunov, and his accomplices pushed an unfinished cotton-harvesting machine into production. As a result, millions in state funds were wasted.

The film tells the story of Ekrem, who falls in love with the girl he married for money. Ekrem is a young and handsome man who works in the factory of Hulusi Bey, a factory owner. Hulusi Bey's daughter Filiz is in love with Ekrem. Doctors diagnose Filiz with a heart condition and give her a year to live. Hulusi Bey wants his daughter to be happy in her final days. To this end, he offers Ekrem a partnership in his factory, but on the condition that he marries his daughter Filiz. Ekrem initially accepts the offer out of greed for money. However, over time, he will fall in love with Filiz.

A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.

A television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.

Sha'ban meets Fereshteh in a film studio. Director of the studio, rejects Fereshteh for avoiding nudity in the film scenes. They hire in a nightclub. Sha'ban's clumsiness causes them to be fired that night.

On an overcast day late in the summer of 1966, Syd first tripped on mushrooms while film student/friend Nigel Gordon captured the event on 8mm film. This marked a major turning in Syd's life; The man that entered the Gog Magog hills that day would not be the same entity that returned.

Made for 16mm home rental, tv and video feature version of the 1938 Universal serial "Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars". Flash, Dale and Zarkov rocket from Earth to Mars to investigate the source of a ray creating environmental havoc on Earth, and find Martian queen Azura working in consort with Emperor Ming of Mongo to take over Earth.

Life is returning to normal in a half-ruined town in Belarus at the summer of 1945. The children are undernourished and emotionally scarred. The community displays solidarity and common sacrifice, as they recovered from the ravages of war.

Comedy TV Film

A woman tries to kill her stepdaughter, Parvin, to take over the wealth of her husband, who is the factory owner.

Igor Ilyinsky talks about his career in theater and cinema.

Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke.

Short documentary on classical Indian music.

This film focuses on Gyorgy Kepes, an influential Hungarian-American artist with whom Frank Eidlitz studied in 1966. Kepes, a professor at MIT, founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) in 1967 to facilitate the intersection between art, science and technology. The film, though silent, features Kepes speaking at a seminar. It includes title cards towards the beginning, including one introducing Gyorgy Kepes and another showing a brochure for a symposium accompanying the exhibition in January 1966. It also includes close-ups of Kepes’ influential books, including editions in a variety of languages.

A woman looks out of a window.