Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

Presents several activities in celebration of the traditional Christmas holidays such as the birth of Jesus, peasant parrandas, the traditional roasted pig, and people dancing and singing Puerto Rican décimas.

Captain Celluloid battles the evil Master Duper and his criminal gang, the League of Film Pirates, who plan to hijack copies of classic films, copy them and sell them to desperate film collectors all over the world.

Short animated film by Manabe Hiroshi

Three vignettes involving protagonists seen and unseen illustrate ethical questions of the period about abuse, abortion, and racism.

Infinite star space, where luminous forms evolve; dots swarm in webs of insubstantial lines.

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."

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

X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking.

Time counter, in seconds and minutes.

An honest account from kids who enjoy a local coffee house. Church groups, social organizations, and just average teens used the coffee house as a means to get kids off the streets and into a place of mutual ideals and moral ethics.

Stanley is tricked by a frog who claims to have been a king.

Honey Halfwitch conjures a cauldron full of monsters while Cousin Maggie is away.

The film is a transfixing “flicker” film that distills the cinematic experience to projected light and color patterns, allowing “the viewer to become aware of the electrical-chemical functioning of his own nervous system.”

The tale of a little toy ship, Aurora, that defies entire fleets of evil Capitalist warmongers.

Twelve short scenes of the life of an elderly homeless person, Oskar Langenfeld, in Berlin.

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.

TV's Whizzo the Clown entertains a group of kids by hosting a pretend circus show, and takes them out on a trip to see Santa Claus at the North Pole.

Amateur film about a wet weekend in Carnoustie for members of the Scottish Association of Amateur Cinematographers, with a poetic accompaniment.

The artistic achievements of farmer Waalkens and his son Sieto from Finsterwolde viewed in a humorous way. Sieto paints abstract paintings.

Space explorer Zork learns that because of germs, tiny creatures that can get inside the body, earth people get sick. He sees how the body is able to keep most germs out and how it can destroy the germs that do get in. Along with Zork, viewers will learn about contagious diseases and immunization shots, as well as about good health habits that help earth people to prevent germs from infecting their bodies.

NASA documentary from 1966 about its history, organization and activities at the time.

Rene Ricard in a lost Screen Test. The image was reproduced on the cover of the book ‘Screen Tests/A Diary’ (New York: Kulchar Press, 1967).

The subject of problem solving begins with an explanation of what the Eameses called “the information machine, “a device for presenting information in fragments so that viewers are compelled to see new relationships among events, objects and people.” The narrative accompanying the images points out the relationships between solving both simple and complicated problems, and then demonstrates that complex problems are solved by the computer with the same logical procedures that people use to solve simple ones. Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Filmex) Acknowledgement of participation, 1973.

The film is about Epistinia Fyodorovna Stepanova, a mother whose eight sons were killed during World War II.

Short documentary about Venezuelan guitarist Alirio Díaz.

Animation comedy taking individual through daily misadventures.

Somebody steals Johhny’s gold in the premises of Kino klub Split. He just says: Screw me for letting myself be brought to this amateur club!

Budawanny was filmed on location on Clare Island, Co. Mayo. Exactly twenty years before, Bob Quinn had made a half-hour documentary on the daily lives of the inhabitants. It is interesting to compare the factual and fictional treatments of the same community.

Rev. Ian Paisley, is he a new Martin Luther - a true defender of the Protestant faith - or a strutting turkey cock in the animal farm politics of Ulster? (BFI)

Chicken Gock and the two mice are doing a big clean-up. Unfortunately, only Gock takes the work seriously.

Tourist panorama of Tržič and its surroundings.

Between Marrakech and Taroudant, in the Atlas Mountains, stands the mosque, an architectural masterpiece.

The relentless fight waged by public authorities against drug trafficking… Moroccan gendarmes pursue kif (cannabis) traffickers in northern Morocco.

Made with objective images, captured in their 'found' reflections. Precise interventions of small rational animations.

The first film of Hofsess’ Palace of Pleasure. Made while he was a student at McMaster University.

The Karingals group initiated the Karingals Olympics in 1966, which was subsequently taken over by the Pollynesians (Pollys) to become the Polympics. In this film we see The Karingals on a day trip on Sydney Harbour, from their arrival at the pier through to the social cruising the harbour.

"This film shows the agricultural revolution taking place in the villages of East Pakistan, with the help of American advisors (including Ben Ferguson) who assist the farmers to identify and solve their problems, both individually and with community effort. The film was presented by the Agency for International Development, produced by Amram Nowak, and directed by William Jersey" (US National Archives). The film was distributed by the US Information Agency.

Rekvijem is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) experimental film.

A short film by Iván Zulueta.

A film about recreation and learning, made during the Cantrills’ four-year residence in London, similarly tinctured by Herbert Read’s notions about children’s education as self-directed, creative, and free. The adventure playground provides a space in which children can shape and reimagine the environment according to their own sense of play.

A German Film Award winning spsatirical animation looking at modern day attitudes to “specialists”.

The big city. A man lost in the middle of it. Buildings, isolated people, no conflicts. Newspaper headlines report tragic events: suicides, homicides. Movement, agitation, and entanglement define the city once again. The man reappears in his room. There will be a romantic encounter, but with it comes farewell. The empty city reappears.

This is the first work that marks the construction record of the Kasumigaseki Building, Japan's first skyscraper building. We will introduce the construction plans for the Kasumigaseki Building and safety measures for skyscrapers.

The construction of the Salazar Bridge in Lisbon.

A BAFTA award nominated travelogue of Egypt, Iran, Lebanon and Greece.

Life in Australia: Hobart shows scenes illustrating daily life, industry, recreation and the tourist features of Hobart, Tasmania.