Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the peregrine falcon.

Bob Branaman, most known for his painting, has been working with an 8mm camera for years, has produced a dozen films or so, which he rather simply and beautifully refuses to name, all involving multiple super-impositions (all created camera-wise) with much flash frame happening (or what he would, if he created them editing-wise, call extremely rapid cutting) and of a natural Baroque-musical tempo and which created for me a whole new sense of film collage. (The Film-Makers' Cooperative)

A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He takes the light bulbs from the conveyor belt and inserts them into a testing device. The light bulbs light up briefly and bathe the scene in glistening light. The worker puts the light bulb back on the conveyor belt, looks directly into the camera and shouts against the noise of the machines: "We create wealth."

Directed by Jerzy Rozenberg and Arlene Shermann

Directed by Frank Black.

Psychedelic surfer documentary. Also see http://encyclopediaofsurfing.com/entries/drugs-and-surfing

Bob and Tom are in the woods intending to go fishing but find sex instead.

A nine-year-old boy, Ken, alone in the city of Kobe during the port festival and holding on to the image of his absent mother, encounters people who speak different languages, or are from different countries or environments.

Underwater documentary exploring the shipwreck of SS Andrea Doria, an Italian ocean liner which sunk in 1956.

A man tries to make money by pretending to be a cop.

"Terrorthon Spectacular" was a double feature horror special on SAS Channel 10 Adelaide, screening "The Beckoning Fair One" as well as an "Aweful Movie with Deadly Earnest" presentation.

Lost comedy, something like a stylization of an old Russian musical.

What was unsuccessful 400 years earlier in the German Peasants’ Wars is achieved in 1945 by the unbreakable bond with the Soviet Union: Under adverse conditions, workers and peasants build a socialist state. In 1970, when this film was made, the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) asserts its claim to leadership grounded in the past – it moves forward on the “Way from the I to the We”.

The choral society of the town of Kirchzell is preparing to celebrate its anniversary. Of course, its most famous scion, the world-famous chamber singer Karl Koller, is not to be missed. Unfortunately, the reunion is watered a little too much, which has its pros and cons.

In a future where procreation is policed by the government, one man throws caution to the wind and lives the way he wants to live. That man is Danny Stewart and he'll screw anyone who will let him. This is the story of that man.

Cannes Film festival 1975

A portrait of life in Ireland in the 1960s.

Second short film of Sohrab Shahid Saless

Slow wandering of fantasy characters in settings reduced to the state of signs. Their eyes are open, but they no longer see anything; the mouth is open but only a cry comes out. A film about mental partitions.

Metro!!! The School Without Walls (Rod Nordberg, 1970) is an eighteen-minute documentary about the Chicago Public High School for Metropolitan Studies (aka Metro), which was part of the CPS system from February 1970 to September 1991.

A young woman and her analyst seduce each other with stories of sex.

The film begins with a shot on the countryside near Padua. A young man goes slowly towards the camera carrying a big red flag, referring to the student revolts of 1968. The camera follows the protagonist ..

A home movie by Piero Bargellini.

A short film about style

Kingdom of animals is an unknown territory. We are like foreigners in here. We don’t understand the language of this country. They say, once lived a person who could talk to the animals, King Solomon. All peoples have fairytales with animals speaking with each other and with humans. In amazement, we’re looking at the world which considered long discovered. Animal language. It’s not human language, but special, sometimes completely unexpected ways of communication between animals…

Documentary included in the DVD version of "Chisum"

A feverish dream full of witchcraft, giants, sages, ogres, speaking monkeys, a flying turtle that’s really a female warrior and a princess that has been turned into a spider by her own father. Pre-Khmer Rouge popular film.

The film is notable in that it was produced roughly a decade prior to the arrival of the IBM Personal Computer, which revolutionized computing worldwide. "Computers" primarily shows mainframe and office type computers made by IBM, including the System/360 mainframe with its tape drives and hard drives. The System/360 was the first family of computers designed to cover both commercial and scientific applications and to cover a complete range of applications from small to large.

A film about the life and work of I.V. Kurchatov, a Soviet physicist, organizer, and leader of nuclear science and technology in the USSR, and an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The film is based on film documents and photographs taken during Kurchatov's lifetime, as well as footage of the places where Kurchatov lived, and documentaries that illustrate the main stages of the development of nuclear physics and the creation of the first cyclotrons, nuclear reactors, atomic bombs, nuclear power plants, and the Institute of Atomic Energy.

A satire on the "incomprehensibility" of abstract art.

A Mexican family adjusts from a nomadic farming lifestyle in Texas to a big city lifestyle in California

American horror short from 1970.

The guest of the evening has arrived, let the nightmare begin.

A woman, lonely and looking for love, arranges a date through a personals ad. What follows is a nightmare of torture and terror. Currently thought to be lost.

Moving people from homesteads to settlements. Families are filmed and interviewed in their old backyards just before they move out.

Short experimental film made by Columbia College students David Szabo and Charles Lyman, which won a First Place Hugo award at the Chicago International Film Festival in the undergraduate category. "From a passage in Moby Dick. The small Black cabinboy from the Pequod is castaway in the ocean, and goes mad before he can be rescued. His mind is carried down alive to wonderous depths where the strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glide to and fro before his passive eyes... Man's insanity is Heaven's sense, and Pip becomes as indifferent, uncompromised as his god." - Center Cinema Co-op Filmmakers Distribution Catalog, 1972.

Mae Nak did not have a long hand to collect lemons in this story. but had to stretch out a long hand to grab him. Save Pee Mak's life, who was punched from the building by the villain!

An animated short by independent animator Sadao Tsukioka.

An old man meditates by the sea. A little girl is building a sandcastle. A young couple is frolicking on the beach. The day fades into the evening, as do the memories of youth.

Short by Walter Bockmayer

Shots from Hamlet's rehearsals at the National Theatre in 1970, directed by Adam Hanuszkiewicz, performed by Daniel Olbrychski. The film presents various stages of the preparations – from trying on the costumes and memorizing lines to the final staging.

From a dance presented at First Unitarian Church in Chicago on March 23, 1969. The title of the dance was "What Are You" -it was choreographed by Korah Erbacher." –S. E.

Krzysztof Gradowski presents the story of Eleonora Tomczyńska from Łódź - beaten and rejected, in the end abandoned by her family and starving to death. The filmmakers skillfully combine features of a shocking intervention reportage with a documentary with a universal message.

[1970/2003, color, 7.5 min] Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

In "Connexions" Greg Curnoe describes all of the intricate connections in his life over moving images of London's downtown, neighbourhoods and bars. You also see studio images of Jack Chambers painting his famous "401" painting. Connexions becomes a diary - narrative - biographical - autobiographical home movie of regionalism - provincialism.