Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

A lizard in his habitat.

Short film by Keith Lock and Jim Anderson.

Katia Mann, 85, discusses her girlhood and her life with her husband, Thomas Mann.

Film showcasing various French prototypes and technical innovations in the field of aerospace.

A witty, wicked little film that stages the house-moving of a family from a traditional countryside cottage to a typical communist apartment building. The socialist regime’s utopian project is simultaneously celebrated and satirized.

A National Liberation Front documentary following young couriers from the Plain of Reeds (Đồng Tháp Mười) as they transport ammunition and medical supplies by boat to forces at the front, working under the constant threat of air attack.

A young man who has lost his father is now the head of his family. He falls in love with a wealthy girl and redoubles his efforts to make marriage with her possible. Gifted with a pleasant singing voice, the young man—through the help of an anonymous woman—comes to own a cabaret. But when he realizes that the woman was none other than the girl he loves, he becomes deeply upset. In the end, after resolving their misunderstanding, the young man and woman marry.

A short film on the city of Minsk and urban life.

Perry Como hosts a night of holiday festivities.

An attempt to celebrate Christmas in New York.

The ability of the mouth to open, to close, to ingest something and to expel something, on the one hand, and a ball’s property of rolling on a smooth surface after receiving an impulse, on the other, are brought into a functional connection here. In keeping with the functionlessness of autonomous art, this functionality is purely artistic and self-referential.

Filmed with Gerry Schum in Scheveningen, Holland, February 1969, for Land Art TV exhibition

A film by Fritz André Kracht

Documentary on the Texas Boys' Choir of Fort Worth that won the Bronze Award in 1970 from the International Film and TV Festival.

Three interwoven stories: a cyclist who almost reaches a mountain top; a castaway who waves to a boat in the distance; and a man in an office looking forward to going home. But what happens next… Line drawings in Vaseline.

An observational slice of life with two boys in a Japanese American community, quietly charting routine, play, and friendship.

Pulsing color fields and graphic beats explore the threshold where perception “switches on,” treating sight and sound like instruments.

A documentary snapshot of the MCA Chicago exhibition, catching artists, audiences, and playful participatory works in the act of redefining what “art” can be.

A hungry wolf wanders around the crib. He seduces the sheep by singing passionate serenades to them. He jumps towards them. The peasants pursue him and defeat him. For joy, the shepherds make a feast and - they eat sheep.

Short promotional clip of the legendary Athenée Palace, Leonard Suciu’s film plays out as a pop-infused showcase of the venue’s nocturnal temptations. Scantily clad dancers, sweaty singers, and all sorts of bacchic attractions—seasoned with a psychedelic soundtrack—recreate a Western-style atmosphere where spectators (both men and women) lounge in the cigarette-smoked chiaroscuro, while the performers lay themselves bare to indiscreet, hungry gazes in search of exotic thrills.

An animated note to the audience. In a way an experiment in audience participation since it asks the audience to perform certain tasks.

Experimental short film by pioneering Chaco filmmaker Jorge Castillo. Through a rhythmic and conceptual montage of images of people in the streets and parks of Rosario, Castillo reflects on the passage of time and death.

A training film for youth groups. Designed to stimulate interest in safety, it will help build a positive attitude toward the safe way to work. The cast is made up of Job Corps enrollees. The filming was done at a National Forest Job Corps Conservation Center. Real work situations are featured.

public information film providing a potted history of rabbits in the UK

The rearing of Shetland ponies on island crofts, showing each stage of "a year in the life of Shetland ponies", from winter months to foaling and sale at market. An educational film that captures the strong nature of these small ponies.

Tommy Joe Williams and Steve Brady go to a secluded riverside pool high in the Oregon mountains where fun and gaiety are the theme.

Prevent Smog

Beware Fog

Frost Warning

Pelican Motorist

Iced Ponds safety

On the history of Latvian photography from the late 19th century to 1917.

Official (as per the box) NASA Super 8 release of footage from the journey to, and landing on, the moon.

In this brisk but sweeping tour of lunar imagery, art critic Aline B. Saarinen offers a poetic consideration of the moon’s significance across time and cultures. Tracing this symbolism from the Roman goddess Diana to the Japanese myth of the moon rabbit, Saarinen presents a spellbinding survey of mythological associations that illustrates how people have always sought to understand the moon’s mysterious powers. This curious short film, originally meant to be televised during the first moon landing on July 20, 1969, never aired.

A little man walks through an Escher-esque forest.

The authorities in this country, both central and local, have failed absolutely to solve the housing situation. The situation still gets worse... the time is ripe for ordinary people themselves to take action against the authorities.

Tom goes out with Anne because Olivia turns him down. Anne likes Tom more than Tom likes Anne. How do they continue after the date?

Gay horror short double-billed with Frankenstein de Sade.

A look at the history of the city of Spokane

Film seems to tackle frustrations in communication in the relationship between two men and a woman, which are resolved in the end? Shot in Kirkwall and surrounding area. Ola Gorie, who plays Helen in the film is renowned Orcadian jewellery designer, and one of the founders of the modern craft movement in Scotland.

Short film confronting the reality of living conditions for Palestinians in the occupied territories with the falsely reassuring messages they send to their relatives on the other side of the border, on Israeli radio.

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Animated short film of a counter and portraits of the 242 American soldiers who died in Vietnam during the week of May 28 through June 3, 1969. Made by experimental and documentary filmmaker Howard Lester during the height of national and student protests against the Vietnam War.

Two youth groups with one aim in common. They profess hate for the older generation and they're out to shock and disgust by any means.

Obscure adaptation of the classic story “ The Living Koheiji”.

Portrays the complete life cycle of the alligator and its important role in the ecology of the Everglades. 16mm

A jazz-infused introduction into the milieu and musical environment of Andrzej Kurylewicz’s Piwnica Artystyczna club. With appearances by artists Wanda Warska, Włodzimierz Nahorny, Barbara Brylska, Stanisław Tym and Jean Chavrain – a representative of the Estates General of the French Cinema.

A look at the life of the famous Scottish writer, commemorating the bicentenary of his birth.

The 7th Avant Garde Festival was presented in 1969 on two islands, Wards and Mill Rock, in the East River. Here Yalkut's rare documentation records performances on Wards Island, beneath one of Buckminster Fuller's famous geodesic domes.

The late 60s saw globetrotting filmmaker Tony Williams shoot and edit two films for Iranian director Mahmoud Khosrowshahi. Here Williams chronicles an east meets west festival held in the Iranian city of Shiraz. Williams’ love affair with music and montage helps lend pace and life to a film whose sonic interests range from Iranian lutes and Indian oboes to American Cathy Berberian, who is busy turning comic strips into song. A glimpse of cosmopolitan Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution, it includes a rare interview with New Yorker classical music critic Andrew Porter.

Based on the play by Demetrius K. Toteras, itself based on his own experiences as a prisoner-of-war.

It is an anti-film, a verbo-filmic corollary to the classic O bottetò, which engages a concept of "de-cultural film" brought to exasperation, determining the provocation of the public through a parodistic technique of the most forbidden amateur cinematographic attitude (the film is part of the "filmosophical manifestos" series).

Short documentary that follows a group of expeditioners across the Famatina