Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

Take a lesson in how to photograph naked gals - and feel your brain cells melt in the process - when bare breasts, cowboys & Indians, stock footage and godawful jokes collide in a lengthy excerpt from the never-before-released 1966 experimental-nudie-cutie An Eye For The Girls!

Short documentary.

Short history of man's attraction to deep water.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary film demonstrating the importance of vision in learning, and showing some of the best ways of using the variety of methods that are open to the classroom instructor. Sight is the most important sense so must be captured, and must not be confused. Examples of the wrong way to work with a chalkboard and other media are shown, and then corrected with suggestions. How to use 3D props or models, and the differences in using slides and projectors, and as a summary the presenter uses an overhead projector. The film uses many exaggerated examples for comic effect. Intended for training Royal Naval instructors

A 1966 Christmas essay from Brian Kellman & Charles W. Tamulonis. It was filmed in and around Boston’s Jordan Marsh and Filenes flagship department stores — as well as the original Filene’s Basement. Sadly, all long gone. It’s about a simpler time that speaks to the present…

Roderick Clayton looks around in all directions, squints into the light, peers upward, and turns to show both profiles.

While mom prepares the family table, dad decorates the Christmas tree, but not without curiosities.

Color UCLA Student Film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Magazine collage animation commentary on politics and culture consumerism. "The three segments of this film were created independently of one another by three groups of people, working to a common but unknown musical score" --filmmakers' note at end of film.

Several shots of close-up square-inch sections of human skin are presented, leading to an unexpected revelation.

A tour of popular holiday destinations in Scotland.

A young woman runs to catch the last post with her weekly pools coupon, whilst imagining a more glamorous life for herself.

Directed by Datta Keshav.

With Ramesh Deo, Seema Deo, Master Vithal.

Director : Raja Paranjpe. Cast: Raja Gosavi, Vasant SHinde, Vinay Kale, Bal Gosavi, Barchibahaddar

Movie starring Kamini Kadam, Raja Gosavi and Sharad Talwalkar directed by Datta Mane.

Pavanakathcha Dhondi is directed by Anant Thakur, and stars Chandrakant Mandhare, Jayshree Gadkar and Suryakant Mandre.

A Soviet sex beach comedy: young people are looking for a little romance.

Abstract experimental film.

South African Film

Experimental photo film about the erotic fantasies of a neatly married woman who dreams of an existence in which she could have been a nude model, seductress, prostitute and ultimately the murderess of her silly husband.

A short film on Kyiv's St. Sophia cathedral, a monument of history, architecture and monumental painting of the 11th century. This documentary became a manual for Ukrainian cinematographers on how to shoot architecture starting from the late 1960s.

A lyrical study of a young girls’ spring feelings. (Filmform)

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After being abandoned in the woods with no food, a group of children takes refuge in a nearby house. However, the hungry ogre that lives there is about to come home...

An Aldo Vergine film.

A 1967 film by Luca Patella.

To music by John Coltrane, the film mixes quick shots of common objects or still lifes and the fragments of a filmed diary showing some friends on vacation in Torcello, in the Venetian lagoon, walking around reading the newspaper, chatting during lunch, cutting vegetables, playing chess. The shots, taken without a tripod, have a decidedly impressive visual intensity: backlit silhouettes, bright portraits, fruit and shells reminiscent of still lifes. In a convulsive and irrepressible way, with the flow of visual assonances, The little boredom intertwines the pictorial formalism of the compositions with the scenes of everyday life.

Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

“Perhaps the first ‘absolute’ sound film. A curious but very beautiful work.” –David Curtis

A BAFTA award winning documentary demonstrating what energy is, revealing the relationship between the various forms of energy and matter.

This is Byron’s first film using edits of very short clusters of frames. Not yet familiar with the A and B roll technique, he simulated a dissolve by cutting sequences of two, then four, then eight, then sixteen frames of an incoming scene against frame sequences of the out-going scene.

The cameraman tells his yet-to-be-born child, Pamir, “Listen, I am going to tell you the story about my village.” The people of the village are constantly working, the camera lingering on the hands. The landscape. The traditions and rituals of the people. A woman with a tambourine. The spinning shamanic dance of an elder. A mother swinging a cradle gently. The newborn admonished not to forget the Motherland.

Retornar a Baracoa focuses on a town, the oldest in Cuba, that remained accessible only by sea for more than three hundred years. While the documentary showcases government projects to build a radio station, a high school, an airport and a park, the images and voices of the residents leave the viewer with the feeling that all of this may be too little.

This short uses a text by the Spanish writer Garcia Lorca to document the tragic fate of an animal in the cruel arena sport of bullfighting.

As the camera moves elegantly across Paul Ritchards’ body, abstract, superimposed images of New York City drift in and out of frame. The urban landscape begins to align with the landscape of the male physique.

Short documentary by the basque filmmaker Chumy Chúmez (José María González Castrillo).

In Chiriquí, among rural bourgeoisie, the frivolous wife of a landowner feels attracted to a womanizer, while her husband falls for an American young woman.

A murder takes place on the Israeli Independence day. An Israeli film noir.

Film record of aircraft at the Farnborough Air Show 1966.

Mexican feature film

This film presents a series of flickering frames of primary colors to groaning tape manipulations. ‘Though I have worked extensively in various media, from music to poetry to film to performance to multimedia and installation art, there is a single thread that runs through most of my creative work: I am fascinated by the potential of light and sound to produce sheer magic.’ (V. Grauer)

Cited as the first Saudi film to be shot in 16mm.

An experimental, non-narrative film and an information collage of experiences in America of the middle 1960. Juxtaposed are the worlds of politics, anti-Vietnam war protests, the Rock`n Roll scene, and transcendental meditational influences from Asia.

East German educational movie about healthy eating.

"This film is an intimate case study of pork barrel politics, framed within the on-going controversy over construction of the Florida Cross State Barge Canal by the US Army Corps of Engineers–a civil works project originally cooked up by President Henry Jackson, picked up and dropped by President Kennedy, and periodically re-visited by local groups with assorted vested interests. The Barge Canal was designed to shorten the oil-shipping route from Texas to New Jersey by cutting across the top of Florida, linking the Atlantic with the Pacific. The Oklawaha River, one of Florida’s last remaining wild rivers, was slated as primary water feed-source for the Canal. As a cinema verité depiction of a grass roots attempt to save the river from destruction, Progress, Pork-Barrel, and Pheasant Feathers is a story of profit pitted against beauty, made several years before the word “environment” was even in the political activist lexicon." - Holly Fisher

A parable of the Gospel! The story of the creation, fall, corruption, … inspires a new ant colony in which wings once again are grown. This classic from Rolf Forsberg, in the style of Fellini and Bergman, tells the story of a gardener who decides to introduce ants to his garden, because they will benefit what grows there. He is disturbed when the ants spend all their time fighting. He sends his son to teach them how to live peacefully.

At first sight, it a film about the bullfight. However, the standings about of a bull which accompany in soundtrack the public surrendering the arena already express a gap appropriate for a critical representation: the fate of this population is confidentially connected to that of the bull. Besides differently, the repeatedly returns of an old poster, probably republican, representing Hitler under the features of a matador in full action. This image transcends the documentary value of the film to raise it into a strongly symbolic dimension. In fact, we are after the death of Franco. Cyril Hurel

A rude and abrupt departure from Hindle's two early visual poems. Between those early works and MERCI, Hindle was sought to film the Winter Olympics, 150 short works for Westinghouse/CBS, and the South Sea voyages of Sterling Hayden's schooner, "Wanderer." The inability to get on with his own work produced MERCI. A poignant comment concerning the film artist's dilemma. Aftermaths of Western Civilization. Including never-seen-elsewhere Nazi footage inserts.

The painter Frank Lodeizen filmed at work and in his surroundings.