Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

"Video as box, the TV set as box. Communication is the medium."

This short documentary shows the city of Banja Luka after the 1969 earthquake.

In SIX LOOP-PAINTINGS, as in SOUNDTRACK, sound and image are hand applied directly on to 16mm clear leader. The image at a given instant is repeated both on the image track and soundtrack, so that the viewer is visualizing the image he is hearing. However, unlike SOUNDTRACK, the images and sounds in SIX LOOP-PAINTINGS are not painted; they are made by cutting to size and pasting acetate self-adhesive patterns (Micotape and Zipatone) directly onto the clear film. Each pattern yields a distinct sound. Patterns of lines yield square wave sounds; patterns of dots yield sine wave sounds; patterns of diamonds yield sawtooth wave sounds, etc. The finer the pattern, the higher pitched the tone. The further spaced the pattern, the deeper the tone.

Report No. 10 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Hovercraft, Princess Ann; the Advanced Passenger Train; Design Centre exhibition, The next train; plasma torch, Derby Technical Centre; analysis of diesel oils, Glasgow science laboratory; bleep radio communications, Paddington; resignalling, Derby area; intercity coaches; evolved suspension, the Brighton Belle; Southern Region grouptravel; computer, Eastern Region; shipment of molten iron.

A programme dedicated to the Icelandic artist Ríkarður Jónsson.

A film about the island of Flatey in Breiðafjord,

The "theme," a seven-second loop-painting (actually closer to eight), is repeated seven times in succession before the title appears. Then, using an optical printer, the variations start. After each variation the original theme is repeated once. The variations involve step-printing, repetitions and optical manipulations. They very closely follow the original theme.

During divorce proceedings, children have to make a hard decision which parent they want to stay with, which leaves an indelible mark on the children's souls.

This is not the game for children but the one for war.

Sengekantsfilm is a film series of eight Danish erotic pleasure games directed by John Hilbard.

All the goals of the 1970 world cup goals

An exceptional portrayal of the world's creation, from a barren landscape to the emergence of the Woman and the Serpent, ending with Society as we know it. The film is technically unsurpassed in plasticine animation.

Video by Dennis Oppenheim

Interviewed in New York City on Earth Day in May 1970, social theorist Buckminster Fuller expounds on subjects including energy use, ecological systems, the history of technological achievements and the importance of a global vision. Assembled by Ira Schneider.

A collection of short animated films commissioned by The While House Conference on Children in 1970. Made by children at the Yellow Ball Workshop. In addition to the animated films, most titles are followed by a short documentary segment showing the children who made each film.

A short documentary about Rakovski street in Sofia.

Using montage techniques, in 'Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal, Square' Jan Dibbets imposes a graphic pattern on his shot of a grassy field. On the one hand, the lines are reminiscent of the white markings on a street or a football field that guide traffic or play. On the other hand, the graphic pattern here has nothing to do with this reality; it exists in the wholly other and more abstract dimension of the framing of the image imposed by camera. Then the pattern of lines disappears, and the artist himself steps into the image. With the utmost concentration Dibbets follows the lines seen earlier, which were only notional in the physical space, having been determined by the eye of the camera. He crosses the field from the lower left to the upper right, and from he bottom to the top. He moves across the grass as carefully as a tightrope walker, now drawing the lines with his movements, like an invisible horizon.

Short hungary animated film by Gyula Macskássy

Monteverdi's mini-opera, starring Cathy Berberian.

The film observes and records the people travelling, adding to this very simple but effective visual set a pure (and magic) pot pourri of designed and recorded voices and sounds. Hereby not only the people become human beings alive, but also the city awakens.

"Fill is my first video; the monitor becomes a picture-sound box. The screen is filled by laying sheets of aluminum foil on a microphone and wrapped one at a time and then unwrapped. The audio implodes during the wrapping and explodes as the sheets are pulled away from the microphone. Besides the obvious reading of physical filling, the title also refers to filling time or a 'filler' between television shows."- Askevold

"Winner of the First Annual San Jose State College Survival Faire film contest in 1970, this 3-minute animated film began as a story Alex Weiss wrote for his kids' nursery school newsletter. Babs Jackson did the cut-out art and I filmed it, one frame at a time. Cost was $10 - $6 for the film and $4 for processing. It brought in about $1,500 over the years in rentals. The Smothers Brothers TV show wanted to run it, but insisted the word "feces" be taken out. We said no and lost out on $3,000. Dumb." - Steve Giordano

A BAFTA award nominated film dramatising how one firm and its employees faced the inevitable changes caused by automation and made the best of the situation.

A curator in a museum meets a woman he knows from a centuries old painting.

A Rodolfo de Luca and Estela Saenz de Mendez's animation short film.

After early silent black-and-white short films, this is the author's first more experimental film. She shot it during the summer film school in Koper in 1968. It is already sound and colorful and also shows various expressive procedures and also greater knowledge of editing. At that time, she and her colleague Tone Rački were in charge of film education at the Pionirski dom in Ljubljana, where they had a camera and 8mm films, and it was also possible to edit them.

A forklift safety PSA produced by Towmotor and Caterpillar.

The film devoted to Tadeusz Borowski's work has the form of a multi-part suite consisting of very short episodes, in which the fragments and poems read by Borowski are accompanied by photographs from the Auschwitz camp, reproductions of Andrzej Wróblewski's paintings, film archival and contemporary photographs. He presents Borowski's work in an extremely emotional way in the context of the artist's stay in the concentration camp, showing the influence of this experience on Borowski's writing and on the vision of the fate of his generation.

A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.

"... consists of chickens being butchered and hung out on meat hooks, to the accompaniment of the Fifth Symphony. As the film progresses, the imagery mutates from nearly documentary to nearly surreal. An eyeball-clashing scene recalls "Chien Andalou" yet Devensky holds it on-screen much longer than Dali and Bunuel. Finally a chickens' skull is pounded to bits by a hammer. And each time we think (or wish) the final blow has fallen another follows. The camera peeks all the while and one is uncertain of what is more disquiting - the action on the film, or ridged stare of the camera. –Richard Koszarski, New York American

I made this film with my brother Danny to try and capture our warped sense of humor. What turned out is a series of comedy characters, situations, running gags and satires. We're basically the show with some help from our family pets (2 dogs & cats). The film suffers from a preponderance of oral and anal neuroses. It is highly gross, sometimes clever and it has kept us both limp with laughter. –D. D.

With Gay Delanghe. ... a dance poem, a tribute to a woman who sought a freedom, an abstract film in Michigan Gothic.

Cinelimite presents newly digitized home movies. 1970’s Airports, Airplane, and South America Streets feature gorgeous overhead shots of the state of Paraná and daily happenings in the city of Curitiba.

The documentary tells the history and tradition of frevo in the state of Pernambuco.

Rare footage of a September 1970 rally honouring the late Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. One of the speakers leads the audience in a call and response.

Though the Vietnam war has come to an end, we are still faced with the conditions that made the war possible. A black veteran returns to the United States, to find that the 'freedom' which he defended overseas does not apply for him at home. After a three-year search for steady employment, the veteran is pushed to taking the law in his own hands. When he attempts to steal car, the police are immediately at the scene, and the former was hero is killed instantly in the streets of America. –L. M. H.

This film portrays the dilemma of engineers who, although opposed to the war in Vietnam, were weapon-makers, employed at some of the most prestigious California institutions, specializing in war-materials production. The film presents their stories. The men play themselves. The analysis distinguishes three types of response to the dilemma: the rationalizer, the drop-out and the organizer. This film is not just about weaponmakers. It is about the dilemma of anyone who finds himself opposed to the system he lives in and works for.

A story about the adventures of a helicopter girl named Hela.

A short film focused on the flora and fauna of a bog.

Lowell Bodger takes a stroll down W 8th street. Shot in 16mm color in the 1970s.

In 1970, the Yale student film collective May 1st Media made two 16mm works supporting the Black Panther Party’s New Haven chapter to help spread the word of their community-based activities. Puppet Show is a charming curiosity that sees the story of Panther Lonnie McLucas, who was convicted of murder in 1969, being performed for neighborhood children at the Party’s local headquarters.

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

"A few acres in Maine. Closeup looks at a small lake in the woods, wild flowers, clouds, mosses, ants and mushrooms. The visual richness is fantastic, the objective eye is absorbing. Often cut by glimpses, the second time you see the film you see twice as much, and each time the power and depth of feeling are new." - Edwin Denby "Like a mescaline high." - Frank Lima

The scenes of this film were shot under actual battle conditions by service and newsreel cameramen attached to American, British, French, Russian, and enemy forces. (Amazon Prime)