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Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955 started to take effect, to log the many developments - new services, equipment, techniques - wherever these have been introduced. They provide a unique pictorial record of the progress of British Railways.
"The Folding Castle" - a musical drama - Built in blue, lasts longer than you think, can withstand being watch. The shadow of the cloud is slowly eroding, the edges of the giant mountain. The dust of the fairy tale grinds the raw diamonds of life. A story by Gunnel Linde, to music by Bengt Hallberg, choreographer by Tyyne Talvo Cramér, starring Alice Babs.
A mystery fantasy film starring Neelo, Mohammad Ali, Yousuf Khan, and Zamurrad, directed by Aziz Meeruti
Lasse divorces his second wife Pirko when it turns out that he has a child with Raija. They get married, but as Lasse reflects on his three marriages, he soon becomes unsure whether marrying for the sake of the child was a wise decision after all.
Tells about the everyday life of the military music orchestra. The most difficult thing is to play a parade concert or “defile”. A defile is when military musicians play a march in motion, without straying from a clear marching step, or from the rhythm, without violating the strict musical pattern. For a professional, this is not so difficult to do, but how did an orchestra from a generally ordinary military unit manage to do this?
Hungarian documentary that commemorates the life and work of director and artist László Mészáros through archival footage and personal testimonies. A heartfelt portrait of a significant voice in Eastern European auteur cinema.
The best surfers of the late 1960's, seek thrills both on and off the waves.
A film directed by Jud Yalkut
An early experiment in employing computers to animate film. The result is a dazzling vibration of geometric forms in vivid color, an effect achieved by varying the speed at which alternate colors change, so producing optical illusions. In between these screen pyrotechnics appears a simple line form gyrating in smooth rhythm. Sound effects are created by registering sound shapes directly on the soundtrack of the film.
Woody Woodpecker and his friend Sugarfoot the horse are having all kinks of bad luck until Woody finds a four leaf clover...
Ashrafzadeh sends his three sons to Mothel Ghoo to choose the three daughters of Haqiqatpour as their wives.
When army intelligence detects an underground movement, Operation X is carried out. Lieutenant Hadi receives a secret mission to penetrate into the underground movement. In order to keep it secret, Hadi breaks up with his girlfriend, Savitri, for the time being. Spies kidnap Savitri as their hostage when Hadi’s dual role is suspected. But then the army moves in to smash the underground movement and rescue Savitri.
On the cusp of adulthood and in search of work qualifications and a better life, Franciszek Wróbel - a baker from a small village on the Czech border of south-western Poland - emigrates to industrial Silesia to join the Voluntary Labour Corps. There he is chosen from all of the applicants to write a diary of his experiences and daily life. Between his vocational courses and training, he struggles to make friends, pass his exams, and maintain relationships with girls.
A look at some of the laws you never even thought existed and their pitfalls.
The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative account of the history of computers, their prospects and the risks within, as seen in 1968. The voice-over accentuates the highly topical promulgation set against the dangers of monotonous office work and computer totalitarianism.
Ceremonies for the subway opening.
"The sea, tranquil and violent, is the ultimate symbol for Jerry Abrams' EYETOON and the ultimate equivalent to making love -- his concern in this short and visually dazzling film. Abrams contrasts the rushing faces of New York and a highway juggernaut with the peaceful joining of bodies in a Gjon Mili-like stroboscopic sequence -- always with a burbling, flashing maelstrom of emotions underlying and double-exposing with the bodies. It is visually lovely, technically first-rate and impossible to ignore. The graphic sex is economically handled." -- John L. Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle
A parish youth group in a lower middle-class Chicago neighborhood discusses parental authority, what growing up means and the difficulties of communicating with their parents.
An animation.
A kind-hearted local tough, haunted by his reputation, struggles to reconcile his violent past with his desire to protect the vulnerable in his community.
A man who used to be a political brigade commissar offended the society. Twenty years after the war, he comes to visit the old monument erected in honor of his dead comrades, unwanted and abandoned. They were roll-calling the dead and alive, but his name was not mentioned. And he stood before his comrades, face to face. He stood, and it looked as if he had never existed.
Based on a play by Ivan Turgenev.
A film about one of the oldest preserved crafts in the Balkans - the coloring of wool rug covers, which is still cultivated in the village of Virovo in the city of Demir Hisar. This craft is carried out with the help of natural resources as the terrain of the village is hydrographic - located between mountain streams.
Mahmoud Rorast, who is a taxi driver, makes an agreement with Parvaneh to drive her to her office every day.
An absurdist comedy short directed and produced by Harrison Engle. Features one of the first film scores by Philip Glass.
A BAFTA award nominated animated documentary postulating that the Earth's land areas might actually be fluid (when it comes to movement).
A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.
Short film by Markus Imhoof.
In 1963, Maurice Fleuret wrote of Thierry Vincens: “...Vincens' cinematographic projections are more than a sumptuous abstract cinema number, more than a visual illustration of an interior world whose music echoes to us, [...] a lyrical synthesis whose persuasive force is unique in the history of art nouveau. ” GIRAGLIA was produced in 1968, set to a composition by Pierre Henry.
Sequence of mostly still images documenting the student led revolt in Paris 1968, the official response, and aftermath.
Silence ('Csend') is an experimental short film by Károly Bárdos from 1968. A short film of associations of images and shapes, sound effects and wonderful compositions.
The story, set at the end of the 19th century, revolves around the rivalry between two families of ancient peasant lineage, the Valladares and the evil Vilches who, out of greed and sentimental revenge, try to dispossess the true owners of their land. The Valladares defend theirs, ending the conflict with a melee between the two main rivals. There are duels, fires, chases, kidnappings, betrayals and deaths. There is also a romantic note, the costumbrista landscape, the laughable moment and the folk songs.
Through the character of a model, there is an almost science fiction-like reference to a certain fashion trend projected into the future that is quite inhuman.
A look at Sir Francis Chichester and Sir Alec Rose who show what it means to sail around the world single-handed and the ten men who then set out to prove it can be done without stopping at all.
Exploitation film with, you guessed it, surfing & sex!
The goddess Tep Sodachan falls in love with the peasant Vesna. Their love is threatened by a landlord and later, the king of the sky.
A former news cameraman is found dead in mysterious circumstances. The police detective assigned to the case gradually finds himself involved in reading an unfinished novel by the dead man called "The Bearded General", and through it becoming a sort of literary biographer, seeking clues to the man's life and the cause of his death. . . .
A look at the work of the Press Association with its teleprinters and fast movement to get the news out.
A look at the pastime of angling in Britain
Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.
Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968. This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.
Performances by artists in 1968 Rome: Cesare Tacchi, Eliseo Mattiacci, Jannis Kounellis, Aldo Mondino and Nanni Cagnone redefine the boundaries of contemporary art by playing with heterogeneous materials, aluminum wheels, fish, kites, paper planes. The group from via Brunetti performs in piazza del Popolo, reviving the city traffic with by now bizarre means of transport, the velocipede and the tractor, on which, with an Indian scalp on his head, Gino De Dominicis whizzes by, immortalized by the camera before the cult of immortality delivered him to the logic of disappearance.
First film by Ihab Shaker, Egyptian pioneer of animation. A man attempts to open a bottle.
Paul Leduc, Rafael Castanedo, Óscar Menéndez and other students filmed the CNH assemblies and took to the streets to record the rallies, demonstrations and confrontations that the various student groups held against the police and the army throughout 1968.
This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with their Venezuelan colleagues. The film also includes a brief sketch of Yanomamo culture and society.
An animated Miss America. It strips away the false facade to show the real facade. You'll see faces cut in half, ocean liners, a car, mannequins and marbles, a cow, a guy in pajamas, loose eyes, and 24 frames a second. –J. D.
A MATTER OF OPPORTUNITY is an outreach film that was sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the National Medical Association (NMA) in response to the burgeoning civil rights movement in the U.S. and the limited opportunities afforded to African-Americans in the field of medicine. MATTER OF OPPORTUNITY signals a seismic shift in thinking and action within the institutions of education and medicine in the 1960s.
A straightforward account of what happens when a collector furnishes an apartment until he finally attains his ultimate collection.... He leaves behind his innocent, youthful romance and acquires instead human-objects, object-objects, and a life removed from his real surroundings. This story of a trivia-maniac questions extreme materialism and trivial taste.
A few basic gestures, deliberately excluding indefinite states in between.
Western for the SDS portrays the development of the left as a learning process among women who sharpen their awareness in the movement but continue to have no say. The controversy surrounding the film is shown in the DFFB weekly newsreel Requiem for a Company. The Western was confiscated by the administration, and eighteen students who sided with Straschek were expelled from the academy. The film was considered lost until its rediscovery in 2018.
Somalia's first full-length feature film.
A documentary about the Khatyn massacre.
Four minutes of color footage featuring Carl Lee and a poodle named Max. A very cute home movie from the Connection blu-ray.
Ice team is fighting hard. We believe in the courage of the desperate guys. Real men play hockey. Coward does not play hockey.