Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

This traditional Christmas carol is performed by choreographer Agnes de Mille's Appalachian dance troupe.

“Face Values, that was done to show how frequently it can be that an art of a face can be more realistic than the real one. I mean an artistic creation of a mask can be more exciting than the actual face itself.” (Emlen Etting)

A donkey saves the day.

A film by Michael Stewart.

A young woman dances at an outdoor music concert. Using in-camera effects, the filmmaker manipulates the film by using slow motion, still frames, and repeated or skipped frames. The music track is also manipulated, looping slow sections.

hong kong film

A look at the changing social scene within British pubs of the late 1960s.

About the fates of three Soviet people, different in age, profession, and character. 1 — Vladimir Nikolaevich Filimonov — an electrical installer at the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station; 2 — Vladimir Ivanovich Karpov — the foreman of the "Biysky" grain sovkhoz; 3 — Pyotr Kuzmich Anokhin — an academician, physiologist.

The film translates the lyrics of the Beatles' song into pictures using Lower East Side locations; pixillated sequences of images portray the nonmusical sounds.

A short film by Kurt Heyl

This fine documentary was produced by the Department of the Navy to celebrate the first 50 years of carrier based aviation, with an emphasis on World War 2 operations. The Navy Archives were opened to provide footage ranging from precarious landings on the old Langley, to the Battle of the Coral Sea, to CVEs facing the Japanese at Leyte Gulf, Midway and much more.

Originally silent films from the 1920s, footage taken by Frank Gilbreth, particularly those used in his Motion Studies and Fatigue Studies research.

Toys come to life on Christmas morning.

The camera - reflexion - separation

A Cow sings a lullaby to her son B.B. She manages to make him sleep, but also does Tobalito the dog. He dreams that he reaches the Moon, accompanied by Lucero the bull, and has a distressing nightmare.

"A non-photographic hand scratched and colored film of shapes rapidly growing out of and shrinking into a central point. Color positive, negative and superimposition. Like cosmic and organic processes, and like the arising of images in the mind."–M.J.

It is the land of madmen. Those who earn the right to be mad see arabesques or lines blossom on their faces, which are a source of pride.

Color/Black and White UCLA Student, Film Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An experimental short made up of fragments of petty violence and mundane activities between two men.

A monograph about a leech, a member of the ringworm family. The film shows their living conditions, structure, reproduction, and presents some of the 300 known varieties with particular emphasis on the medicinal leech, due to its practical application in medicine.

A Sad Cat cartoon.

A 1968 film by Guido Lombardi.

A 1968 film by Guido Lombardi.

A film by Gianfranco Baruchello

... linked to the hallucinogenic experience... the protagonist is seen from the outside...

Experimental 8mm film

A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of Non-Industrial Cinema Within Our Cultural Heritage in 1984.

The little mole finds a transistor set.

Demonstration of a glandless pump manufactured in Glasgow, Scotland.

Philosophical grotesque. During an anatomy lesson, a butterfly sits on the page of a butterfly atlas and is immediately "classified" on its pages by the teacher. The teacher begins to cover the graphic lines and turns into a drawing in the anatomy atlas.

Short documentary.

Film by Françoise Janicot & Bernard Heidsieck.

An enquiry, at once lyrical and tragic, into the reality of (the inner Sydney suburb of) Balmain in 1969 - an historical, beautiful and ideally located residential suburb threatened with partial extinction by lack of government planning and foresight, and by indifferent to residents' interests. Peter King, 'The Australian'

Musical cartoon fantasy of "When the Saints", sung and played by Matty Peters and Billy Moore. (DFI)

News documentary from 1968 hosted by George Foster, exploring the legacy of oppression that remains over 100 years after the abolition of that peculiar institution. In Part 1, Foster visits Charleston, SC, and speaks with both descendants of slaves and slave owners. The cameras capture a sermon by Rev. Henry Butler of the Mother Emmanuel AME Church (where Denmark Vesey planned an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1822 and Dylan Roof would later kill 9 church members in 2015). In Part 2, the cameras go to Mississippi to speak with former sharecroppers and political activist FANNIE LOU HAMER. In the final segment, we travel to Chicago, where Prof. JAMES TURNER and activist CALVIN LOCKRIDGE educate young people about revolution. Ebony Magazine editor and historian LERONE BENNETT offers a poignant analogy to describe the times we are in today.

Hans Scheugl’s hamburg special consists of a spool of thread that runs through the projector instead of a film. On the bright empty screen appears a vertical line that is moved to both sides by the projectionist.

Short film about children in japan.

A film poem about the Danish flag, the Dannebrog, and where to look for it. (DFI)

For this videotape, Nauman turned the camera sideways and positioned it so that his head is cropped from the frame and his body is presented from neck to ankles. As he stands in the corner, his back to the wall, he appears to be lying down; falling backwards into the corner and then pushing himself off the wall again, he appears to be trying to levitate himself... As he performs these actions, his hands slam into the wall to break his falls, and the sounds become an integral part of the activities filmed. -- EAI

First transmitted in 1968, this documentary shows life in the British Army of the Rhine as seen through the eyes of one of its regiments, the 17th/21st Lancers, as they complete a tour of duty. It reveals how they manage their routine whilst guarding the Cold War East German front and how they try to live a normal life with their families in a foreign and sometimes alien environment.

A documentary about the restoration of Saint George's altar in Spišská Sobota.

This unusual short was made while the director was at U.S.C., prior to returning to his native Iran, where he made a few feature films before his untimely death at the age of 48. Cocoon follows a frustrated young black dishwasher who visits adult bookstores and lives a lonely, meager existence. Filmed against a particularly sleazy (and hippie-filled) late-1960s Hollywood. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called Cocoon "one of the finest serious short films ever made, right up there with Roman Polanski's Two Men and a Wardrobe."

The camera focuses on the face of a model whose body is being rubbed by a vibrating tool shaped like a spider.

A wife dissatisfied with her husband's vagrancy asks her father, who lives in Paraíba, for help. He then sends two henchmen to Rio to make his daughter a widow, but she reconciles with her husband and needs to prevent the tragedy. Based on the play by João Bethencourt.

Conceptual overabundance was contrasted with nothing in Nothing, which, as the title promises, was nothing. Two years later, when Schmidt Jr. wanted to produce a film version of Nothing consisting of a whiteness that was gradually and imperceptibly to shift to black, the film lab thought the negative was faulty and stayed with the original, that is: it copied – nothing. (Peter Tscherkassky)

A film about Herman Ferguson, a candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Freedom and Peace ticket in the 1968 election.

Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.

This film gives a general outline of the kinds of work being done in The Boston-Cambridge area by National Resist and the New England Resistance.

Vinko Globakar, a virtuoso trombonist, plays on a stage, alone, Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Trombone.