Cinematic Era: 1967 Vintage

Live At Granada Studios, Manchester, UK March 1967 (Original Broadcast Date: 2nd May 1967)

Clyde Alleyne, Britain's first black TV news reporter, questions Dr. Martin Luther King about British racism within months of his tragic assassination.

American GIs take R&R from the war in Vietnam.

Directed by Robert Zagone, an approximate 30 minute U.S. documentary film on the San Francisco rock band Country Joe And The Fish, first shown on TV.

A typical university study trip. The camera is the gun, the lens is the muzzle. While moving with this in mind I shot a lot 8mm continuously. Stop-motion documentary with a keen sense control the camera freely, swinging the timing to press the shutter subtly adjust to the subject and boldly change. It produced unique movements and images.

Peter and his dog escape the summer heat by hiding in the refrigerator. They quickly empty it so that both of them can fit inside. With their imaginations running wild, they embark on a fantastic journey to the North Pole...

A wayward son from a poor family chooses a life of vice, a path that ultimately leads him to a tragic end.

In the ruins of a religious building, a council-orchestra of elders sits enthroned in carved chairs in the abandoned space marked by the passage of time. A military band crosses the empty streets of a residential neighborhood and attracts people, chairs and buildings like a vacuum cleaner in its festive and monotonous cadence. A young star who keeps waiting ends tragically in the middle of the crowd gathered to witness the performance.

An attempt to use animation to explain the theory of relativity.

Rainer Boldt subtly criticises the appropriation of the Rolling Stones by his only superficially progressive coevals in the small town of Itzehoe. After an aerial view of a military training area, he shows an excursion undertaken by a group of young people to a bridge structure outside the town and their subsequent gathering in an attic room. He takes both apart using stop-trick effects.

"I thought the song was great and wanted to make a film about it. Then I came across a quote by Sartre. I liked that, too, and then the film was finished. In colour, of course. You can only make films in colour!" (Helmut Wietz) – An early music clip that does away with gender roles to some extent.

Among two friends and classmates, one goes abroad to continue his studies but becomes unemployed, while the second one achieves great success with much effort and meets a girl and marries her. The friend who went abroad tries to deceive his friend's wife with his temptations upon his return. A struggle ensues between them, and in the end, the deceiver realizes his mistake when it's too late. Dr. 'Chang Lu', a Chinese scientist, has created destructive and evil facilities, and a secret intelligence organization has discovered this and assigns one of its elite agents, known as 'Golden Arm', to follow up on the matter. Golden Arm, after discovering the truth, bravely thwarts Dr. Chang Lu's evil plans.

An intimate glimpse into the life and artistic process of artist, educator, and activist Corita Kent during her years at Immaculate Heart College and the Immaculate Heart of Mary order in Los Angeles. Filmed over a period of three years interweaves footage from Corita Kent’s daily life as a nun with documentation of her teaching activities and her work in the serigraphy studio at Immaculate Heart College.

From rehearsal to premiere of the play Viet Rock at the City Theater in Stockholm.

Short film by Robert Fulton.

Sanjeev Kumar in and as Gunehgar

Yugoslavian experimental short film.

This feature-length documentary looks at the Canadian-British-American struggle for the Ohio valley during the War of 1812, and how it contributed to American and Canadian nationalism. It also examines a few of the myths that emerged from the war with a very sardonic eye. Part 3 of the series Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations with the United States.

A trip to Denmark to look at the Danish way of life.

car dinsosaur PIF

Short animated film with a western theme.

A look at the 750 ships that pass through the five mile wide shipping channel every day.

A visit to a school without fixed rules, where students study as they wish, and are their own masters. A co-educational English boarding school, Summerhill was founded by Alexander Neill a half-century ago.

Espionage and intrigue are the ingredients of this award-winning amateur film shot on the North-East coast of Scotland. An atomic reactor runs out of control and blows up. Accident or sabotage? A group of schoolboys set out to solve the mystery.

The queen of circumpolar glacial Ural is mountain Sablya. It is the highest peak in Sablino range. Although the whole mount range has bright alpine appearance, however peak Sablya is a real jewel in it, kind of Ural Matterhorn.

A BAFTA award nominated film made by Shell Films explaining the principles of the motor car engine.

A look at what has been happening of late in Canada's nuclear laboratories where new uses of atomic energy are being pioneered. The film shows the earlier reactors at Chalk River and the reactions that take place between heavy water and natural uranium. Here, too, is seen the production of radioactive isotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry. At the Douglas Point prototype power station, the film explains how nuclear energy makes electricity. A film for science student or layman. Produced by Crawley Films Ltd. for Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.

Children play. First shown normally, then shown in reverse.

The first film of a French-Canadian girl shot in New York on Thanksgiving Day with the Bread and Puppet Theater going down the streets protesting against the war in Vietnam.

Movement, light and shadow effects are explored with puppet-like figures.

Short movie by Marko Babac.

A 1-Mintue animated short film to discourage smoking.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A Docufiction about the twin realities of the Nominingue village in rural quebec, a poverty town turned vacation spot. where the older generation remembers the harsh conditions and poverty that afflicted them, while younger generations and tourist deal with ennui.

Student film directed by Jacques Drouin.

A lonely little black boy in Watts finds his way to the Watts Towers Arts Center and finds companionship and satisfaction in creating masks and other craft projects. This ethnographic documentary describes the thoughts of this boy who likes to hide behind the security of paper masks.

An impressionistic sequence of experiences—a kind of Rorschach test—meant to evoke individual personal responses on various levels.

A film about the sacred oil used by the church during special occasions in Egypt.

A lunatic is going around strangling go-go girls.

A series of eight portraits. Lost in a fire in 1970

Directed by Krishna Patil. With Aundhkar, Uma Bhende, Indubala Galdagekar, Padma Ghotwadekar.

Directed by Dinkar D. Patil. With Arun Sarnaik.

Directed by Vasant Painter. With Uma Bhende, Jog, Jayamala Kale, Nana Karmarkar.

Gustav is always tired at work, until the weekend finally arrives. Then, he works tirelessly on his own property to enjoy himself.

16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.

Beginning of the sextenary festival of the Sigui among the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali. This first ceremony takes place at the village of Yougo Dogorou. The men, shaved and dressed in ritual clothes of the Sigui, enter the public square dancing the snake dance. They honor the terraces of the famous dead of the last sixty years and go to drink the sacramental millet beer.

A young woman from the city, having just married an old man from the country, starts having affairs while still on her way home from the wedding.

An animation with social commentary. Kazimierz Urbański uses symbolism and abbreviations to depict emerging conflicts between social classes. The whole work is realized in a form characteristic of the author, created through appropriate production processes directly on film stock.

This short film, conceived by Frank Eidlitz and photographed by Maurice Amar, is titled ‘Raga Doll’ and explores experiments with light and movement. Its frenetic pace features fragmented footage of a woman dancing, overlaid with flashing lights and shapes. The accompanying soundtrack is frantic and wild, featuring fast-paced drums and vocal screams.

This is the third part of a three-part documentary about People's Republic of China, filmed in 1967 by Swedish filmmaker Bo Gaertze, and released by a number of companies (this is a German version released by the FWU).