Cinematic Era: 1967 Vintage

Short Film by Anne Robertsson.

Strange Filmation Pilot

Thore Skogman sings a medley of his songs at home.

A film featuring sprocket holes and leader sections in montage.

Version re-edited from film of same title released in 1967 and shot in 1966. Easter weekend market in Yavi, a small town in Jujuy Province, Argentina, along the border with Bolivia.

An animated film explaining the structure of United States government, how it is empowered by the Constitution and how it relates to the individual.

Industrial film about the production of steel car parts.

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series provides an introduction to the red fox.

The documentary describes the work of goldsmiths in Valenza, of cabinet-makers in Canelli, of farmers in the provinces of Alessandria and Asti where such activities are still the backbone of the local econimic structure. It analyzes also the politics of monopoly concentration pursued by the big industrial forces and its effects such as the impoverishment of the countryside, the decline of traditional activities based on craftmanship - a heavy toll on the future of the young.

Motion Vision was originally screened in alternation with slides as part of the rotating installation Rotor Vision, in Rome in 1967 for the seminal group show at L’Attico entitled Fuoco, Immagine, Acqua, Terra with the participation of Mario Bignardi, Mario Ceroli, Piero Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis, Pino Pascali and Michelangelo Pistoletto. In Motion Vision Bignardi constructs a curious repertoire of animal profiles drawn in colour on paper, alternated with pop icons and a sequence of everyday gestures: from the tying of neckties the film passes to walking nude figures in slow motion, alluding to Muybridge and his chronophotography. —Tate Modern

The daily journey of the young deliverer of the Delo magazine. The contrast between the mood of a young vendor and the impressive photos of global events reported by the newspaper.

In the seventies, Waterlooplein square and the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood faced a great deal of demolition in relation to the construction of Amsterdam’s new opera house, the ‘Stopera’, and the metro system. Van der Elsken did a lot of filming in and around Waterlooplein and its centrepiece, the legendary flea market which faced closure.

A married couple in which he is the older and powerful one and she is young and charming. Their mutual teasing, fussing and bickering filled a royal morning in the bedroom. The mighty King Henry VIII of England, who, as we know from history, had more than one of his wives put to death, and the last of them, Catherine Parr, using all the powers of her youth. The main dispute is over the colour of Alexander the Great's horse. Was he white or black? Will he, she, or the love that lies behind all the words win?

"A film of 50 seconds showing a pianist playing Chopin's Valse Minute in the middle of a sports stadium." - MIFF. Screened in the 1967 New York Film Festival.

The film tells the story of a clever and resourceful child who outwits enemy forces while showing deep compassion and affection for a small bird named Sáo.

The ancient and deadly sport of fencing, demonstrated by world masters in competition. The film is not a record of individual duels but it does capture the cool, merciless attack in a way to focus the eye on every swift maneuver. The cold clash of steel on steel, the staccato pound of feet, the strange, sculptured postures of the masked, white figures - all make absorbing, convincing viewing.

Recovered Zulueta short.

A young girl rescues a wild bird. She takes it back to the forest, then finds crystals in the mountain...

In two parts, by Rohmer.

A documentary on making cameras and photographic equipment, which turns into a philosophical visual essay on the art and nature of photography as it unfolds.

Saung Einmet (Death is a Night) is a 1967 Burmese black-and-white psycho thriller drama film.

A portrait of Shalom, watchmaker, toymaker, carver and engraver, who at the age of seventy, turned to painting. The Hassidic heritage from which his work is derived is evoked in the naive but beautifully concise paintings in which he retells the ancient stories of the people of Israel.

This is an experimental film: abstract characters in movement represent symbols in special audio- visual relations; the symbols then remind the spectator of familiar, concrete phenomena. Abstract forms from the world of acoustics and painting tend towards the harmonization of all of the consisting elements and make people laugh.

Short film directed by José Robles Tello and written by Maurice Odremán.

When Jacques Offenbach's melodies are heard, the delighted audience usually asks very little about the man who inspired the great composer with his texts and fable sketches, namely the librettist Ludovic Halévy, who stood in the master's shadow. He and his friend Meilhac came up with the story of 'Belle Helena', for example, at the very moment when the scandalous stories about the Empress Eugénie were being whispered in the Parisian salons. 'Pariser Leben', 'Die Großherzogin von Gerolstein', 'La Périchole', 'Die Banditen' and 'Orpheus in der Unterwelt' are just a few of the works in which the French present of the Second Empire - around 100 years ago - was mocked with Offenbach-Halévy-like irreverence on the stage of the cheerful musical theater. And that's where we want to go now, among the wax figures of the Second Empire, which of course all, almost all, let's say around midnight, come to life.

A model is transported to a medieval torture chamber where evil monks sentence women to be tortured and beheaded.

Short documentary on star athlete Natalia Kuchinskaya.

Three parts of the movie, "Summer", "Autumn”, and "Winter", set on the Baltic Sea at different times of the year, picture the growth and drama between children and adults.

A group of young university students on a sailing trip anchor their boat off the coast of a remote island. They meet the island's owner and his daughter. One of the young men decides to stay on the island for the whole summer and ends up uncovering its dark secret.

Television program produced for the magazine “Lire” on the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis, including a radio interview with the writer and excerpts from Ascèse: Salvatores Dei read by Maurice Ronet.

Collage of happenings and realities of the French counterculture, including ritual feasts during which beings emerge from behind the walls and find their normal state. The film is against all moral, aesthetic and political "values" of industrial society. —Jean-Jacques Lebel

"Good evening... I'd like to report a murder... Where do I live? In the basement... but I'm not there now... I'm on the top floor, in the boss's room... Ah, I don't know who the body is... You like to know, I'm the cleaning lady... How can I check if he's just taking a nap? Maybe, but he's got a dagger sticking out of his back the size of half my arm... So I lock all the doors... don't touch anything... keep my mouth shut and don't tell anyone until you arrive..." - Mrs. Piper, the cleaning lady, begins the eerily cheerful, twisty story with her broken sentences, but at the end we are left with no answer as to why Mrs. Pipper talks so much.

In 1966, Luciano Emmer was commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox to shoot a promotional film for a movie about Michelangelo starring Charlton Heston. When the deal with the Americans fell through, Emmer retrieved the footage and edited it into a documentary about Michelangelo the man, exploring the anxieties and fears revealed in his writings. The sound of the chisel on marble blends with that of a heartbeat. The skewed perspectives on Michelangelo’s sculpture reinforce this idea of the difficulty and effort from which the...

The expression of the idea through image, listening by way of seing.

"Each film was constructed using Knowlton's BEFLIX computer language, which was based on FORTRAN. The films were programmed on a IBM 7094 computer. The films were created in black and white, with color added later by Brown and Olvey." --AT&T Archives and History Center

Bollywood 1967

Scenes of Sausalito, California, including boats, the docks, and streets. Eventually, the setting turns to night and boats appear silhouetted against the sky. A woman speaks poetic phrases on the soundtrack; at intervals her face is seen. A band begins to play but ceases again as lights appear in distant windows.

Promotional film (70mm) from 1967 made by John Fernhout. The film shows the characteristic Dutch landscape that was portrayed and made famous by the great 17th century Dutch painters.

Pinku from 1967.

Short animated painting.

A black and white fairy tale with a card motif, in which red - the color of passion appears only with the feeling between the Prince and Princess. The alchemy of love is not a simple equation or a mixture of colors.

On June 5, 1967, fourteen hostile armies from three huge Arab nations suddenly descended upon the state of Israel from every side and direction. Yet in just six days, this tiny country not only defended herself, but won a decisive victory that changed the map of the Middle East.

Dr. Chang Lu, a Chinese scientist, has created destructive and evil facilities, and the secret intelligence organization has discovered this and assigned one of its elite agents, known as "Golden Arm," to investigate the matter.