Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

Old photographs and pictures with a dialogless soundtrack of a train ride.

Leacock and Pennebaker filmed choreographer Merce Cunningham’s dance “RainForest” as part of the 1968 Buffalo Arts Festival’s program “Whose Afraid of the Avant-Garde” presenting experimental art, music, dance, poetry and theater. The dance composition also featured music by David Tudor, costumes by Jasper Johns and sets by Andy Warhol.

A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling establishment is also taken under the inspection. The daughter of the prime minister and her relation to the son of another minister of opposing party is especially under surveillance.

The building of the Ben Cruachan pumped-storage hydro-electric scheme.

A young boy named David learns to pay attention and follow instructions, thanks to some poorly animated but helpful cartoon animals. Presented by Coronet films as part of their "Beginning Responsibility" series.

Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.

Nine months after the riot. Malcolm X Memorial Services held at I.S. 201 in New York, March 1968, and scenes from Newark, March 1968.

This film follows a rural family to a county fair, showing scenes of horse races, concessions, corn judging contests and tractor demonstrations; Gerald "Red" Markham farm near town of Whitewater, near LaGrange, Walworth Co. Wisconsin.

Documentary about the building of the Rio-Niteroi bridge, in Brazil.

Fragmentary images from a journey to the Alps.

An experimental film by Pramod Pati that presents to us a sensory collage of icons, symbols and the every-day. Exploring the mood and ambitions of youth at the time, the film eschews narrative and commentary to present the excitement and expectations of its participants.

Experimental short film made by Hans-Jacob Siber in which certain dramatic aspects of this filmmaker's way of making films are revealed.

Look at a crumbling hippie commune in California. In the words of Ed Pincus: "It was the Summer of Love, 1967. The Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco was to be the center of a vast cultural experiment. Ideologically it was an attempt at a post-industrial society, where people no longer needed to work and communities of choice allowed people to “do their own thing.” David Neuman and I set off to film what happened that summer. We decided to do what we thought would be a film about a rural commune, because that seemed to be the apotheosis of hippie ideals. What we found was a bizarre replication of bourgeois society—the sun rose on the nothing new. We decided to use an anecdotal editing style with an attempt to enforce a narrative line."

A medium-length film by Vlado Kristl.

György Schirilla, known for his long-distance running and swimming across the icy Danube, ran to Moscow to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. A year later, a bistro was built in his honour in the small Hungarian village of Kenderes. Gyula Gazdag captured moments of his run to Kenderes and the opening ceremony. The film's original title comes from a "poem" delivered by the village council president, which included the line: "We can always count on your long run."

An educational film which documents the menstruation process and feelings in young girls.

Dedicated to the Soviet-Astronauts

"More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony. This film examines the patrons of art complex (corporations and wealthy families) and the culture displayed there. Juxtaposing the atmosphere of Lincoln Center with the vibrant street culture of a displaced neighborhood, the film correctly predicts the process by which the West Side was to be turned into a high-rent area for the upper middle class" - Third World Newsreel

Adventure about industrial espionage.

Members of a school expedition in Tunisia become accidentally involved in industrial espionage.

Members of a school expedition in Tunisia become accidentally involved in industrial espionage.

The story of the rescue of a young boy who is washed out to sea in a rubber dinghy.

An episode of the war of 1895 starring General José Maceo, following his landing in Oriente, accompanied by a group of patriots. Inspired by the letter Máximo Gómez sent to his wife Bernarda del Toro on July 27, 1896.

June 10, 1968. After the end of a long strike in the Wonder factory in Saint-Ouen (France), a female worker is dissatisfied with the negotiated compromise and refuses to return to work. Originally, it was a scene of Willemont's Sauve qui peut Trotsky, but the film was never completed.

The late 1960s saw Japan in a fever pitch of political agitation where student protests were a frequent occurrence. A somewhat timely insight into radical protest and mass meetings from almost half a century ago, the film reveals the aftermath of protests and shares extremely rare footage of mass meetings that were held at universities.

This documentary is a zany portrait of the Grey Cup fever that hits the city of Ottawa, Ontario, during Grey Cup week. The film is also about the football game, where the Hamilton Tiger Cats faced the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and it is about Ti-Cats fans and their famous "Oskee Wee Wee", the magical chant with which they exhort their team to victory.

Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."

Ethnographic documentary about customs and ceremonies connected with death in a Bulgarian village.

A road sweeper saves the Queen's corgi.

Soul in a White Room was filmed by Simon Hartog around autumn 1968. Music on the soundtrack is Cousin Jane by the Troggs. The man is Omar Diop-Blondin, the woman I don't recall her name. Omar was a student active in 1968 diromg 'les evenement de Mai et de Juin' at the Faculte de Nanterre, Universite de Paris. Around this time, Godard was in London shooting Sympathy For The Devil / One Plus One with the Stones and Omar was here for that too, appearing with Frankie Y (Frankie Dymon) and the other black panthers in London.... Maybe Michael X too. After returning to Senegal, Omar was imprisoned and killed in custody in '71 or '72. I believe his fate is well known to the Senegalese people.

Professor H., obsessed with replacing humans through artificial beings, has created Traumer—an unsettlingly perfect assistant whose cold efficiency conceals an unnatural origin. Believing he has found the ideal subject for his next experiment, the professor plots to transplant Traumer’s brain with that of a distinguished scientist. But the plan unravels when Traumer proves far less obedient, and far more uncanny, than expected.

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In 1965, on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, there was the last operating fleet of sailing work boats in the United States. Forty-odd "Skipjacks" were still used by Maryland watermen to dredge up oysters from the Bay. At that time, the fleet had survived because of a Maryland conservation law which prohibits the use of motor power for oyster dredging. The watermen traditionally marked the opening of each oystering season with a skipjack race which the Maryland State Tourist Board incorporated into its annual "Chesapeake Bay Appreciation Day."

In this Florida lensed sexploitation oddity, a group of Vice cops trade stories of their sleazy, sex-filled busts.

Edouard de Laurot's freewheeling compilation of images and ideas from the late-60s counterculture.

A voice says: in the house next door, there was a lonely old man. When he died, diaries were found in which, probably throughout his life, he had recorded the various events of his daily life. A hand opens the one for 1968. A fine, manic handwriting lists: things seen on TV - talking about technical progress and happy tomorrows - a long walk with "Mère" through the streets of Montreuil, little anecdotes from the cartography workshop at the Institut Géographique National (where Monsieur M works), the fridge breaking down... Surprises too, like the first time he gives a coin to a beggar, or when "Père" brings the forgotten snack to work. And at regular intervals: "I wash myself thoroughly"... A well-adjusted life, in short, until early May, when echoes of the world in turmoil make their way into the notebook: riots, general strike...

"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film. From frame to frame……. this work offers a sense of film emulsion coming to life, and responding to the forces of light. In addition shifting camera positions, panning, tilting, using the zoom, framing and focusing are all part of the work. A sculpturing of a space from frame to frame on a surface where there is no space. The title, Wait .... is asking the viewer to forgo our conditioned focus on the photographic image as a representation of a life situation, and instead, focus on the visual kinetic here and now. Physical therapy for the eyes, and delight for the senses." – Ernie Gehr

Turk, a "cool swinger", throws wild sex and drugs parties. Three hoodlum friends of his crash one party and he resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.

The coronation of Elizabeth Gladys II as queen of the United Tees and the other Commonstate realms took place on 12 May 1968. She acceded to the throne at the age of 21 upon the abdication of her father, Albert VI, on 12 December 1967

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This film depicts a day in the life of a factory worker who ends his shift with a visit to to a brothel. Best 8mm Film, II. Hisar Short Film Competition.

The process of violin making performed by Ivan Hus (1898-1992), a well-known Croatian violin maker.

A fantastic documentary about winter survival and camping, in the Canadian wilderness. Gets right to the heart of the matter, and doesn't waste time. Great for showing Scouts the basics!

Portrait of Interflug airline captain Günter Schneider.

Scheugl elevates the trivial, the snapped up and coincidental to unmixed small films. In Safety Film he dismembers an epic Hollywood western by withdrawing the color, story rejection and lack of sound into some of its parts.

In the form of correspondence between Ognen and his professor, illustrated with original documentary materials, Skopje is depicted as it was hit by the catastrophic earthquake of July 26, 1963, and its reconstruction and development with the help of the international community. The achievements in the field of reconstruction and development of Skopje in the period after the earthquake until 1968 are presented.

A film by Ron Finne

A creative film-portrait of the pop singer Edita Pieha.

A film dedicated to life in Mariovo, one of the most passive areas of Macedonia, not only due to the scarcity of natural opportunities for existence but also due to the isolation of this area.

A short film about a young Soviet border guard's confrontation with a state border violator.