Cinematic Era: 1971 Vintage

Early 70s sex comedy

In 1971, Jean-Daniel Pollet & Guy Seligmann directed for French TV a documentary about French artist César Baldaccini. It was part of L'invité du dimanche show.

The goings-on at a school of sexual experimentation where students are "free to do their thing, the American way."

This short animation set to Lenny Bruce's live monologue tells how the Lone Ranger hooks up with Tonto. With Bruce doing all the voices, this animation begins with local folks upset at the Lone Ranger because he won't stay around to be thanked after a good deed. So, he stays and finds he likes hearing "Thank you mask man." When their attention starts to shift elsewhere, he shocks and disgusts the townspeople with a final request. According to the cartoon’s producer John Magnuson, at early showings of this, gay audiences were upset by its apparent “fag-bashing”. And it’s true, part of the fun of the piece is just crying out “Masked man’s a fag”, scandalising and defacing the image of this all-American hero. But it’s within the larger context of Bruce’s analysis of heroism, and that the towns people reject the Masked Man is because of their prejudices, not because Bruce is asking us to endorse them. (from: http://ukjarry.blogspot.de/2010/01/352-lenny-bruce-thank-you-mask-man.html)

A concept film made for Swedish television featuring songs that appeared on Lee Hazlewood’s album Requiem For An Almost Lady plus some additional tunes.

A mother comes home to a trashed apartment and tries to figure out what happened...

The film, which is about the Stockholm gasworks staying mostly at work on the so-called. chamber furnaces, where the gas is extracted from coal. It depicts both the process and some of the workers, who talk about how it is to work in the heat and dirt on the chamber ceiling. The extraction process as depicted in the film is abandoned since 1972

Mad, bad' poet Lord Byron and a lobster thermidor feature in a melancholy tour of Seaham with Johnny Morris.

The story of Emine, who marries a young man who killed his husband in a blood feud, forgetting her past.

The series, based on the first 16mm film that was shot in a studio with Nakajima’s family and birds, moves through media and processing transformations over many iterations over the years. Once transferred to video, digital effects were added using the “Animaker,” an electronic image synthesizer that he invented (also nicknamed “Ko-puter”). Total of 6 parts exist.

Adam Schmitt and Eva Müller met, fell in love and wanted to get married. On the day of the wedding, however, they don't end up in the registry office's wedding room, but in a courtroom. The subject of the trial: their love! Adam and Eve have to prove that they really love each other. If their proof is authentic and convincing, their application for marriage is to be approved by the court...

Per is a newly qualified social worker entering professional life. Through Per, we are confronted with welfare Norway in 1970. Over the course of a couple of short summer months, we get to know Per. He is a fairly ordinary, intelligent person. He has his problems in relation to himself and the opposite sex. He is in the process of becoming an adult. He is testing his attitudes and perceptions. He must find answers to questions that could be crucial to his future place in society.

Bob Godfrey shared his deep passion for animation.

A young man from the city goes on a picnic to the country with his family. They come upon a wedding party, and the young man falls in love with the bride. The girl is getting married for a number of reasons, but not for love.

A 1971 experimental Canadian film directed by Michael Snow. Shot in the Canadian mountains over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm.

About the courage and resilience of two Tajik pilots who were captured by the fascists at the beginning of the war and ended up in the Pawiak political prison in Warsaw. At the first opportunity, the heroes make their escape.

11 minutes, 16mm, Color, Silent

Documentary about the plastic artist F͟a͟r͟n͟e͟s͟e de Andrade, who builds objects 'assemblages' from the meeting of several raw materials: antique pieces, boxes, oratories, fragments, images, dolls, etc. The camera accompanies him in his task of collecting these elements, then in the fabrication of an object, observing it inside his house and finally contemplating the result of creation. On the trail, in off, a testimonial with the confidences of the artist.

Nothing ever happens in the village of Johnstown and even the tourists bypass it. However, one day a youngster takes a photograph of the lake which indicates that the legendary Johnstown Monster might be more than a legend after all.

A documentary that examines the life and career of Harry Houdini. Houdini contemporaries and escape artist experts are interviewed in an attempt to learn the secrets of the magician's success.

Documentary focuses on women farmers from the village of Worin. Even on International Women's Day, March 8, these women do not want to hand over responsibility for their animals to the men. Everyday observations are explored in depth in conversations with the LPG chairman Bernhard Grönert.

A seamstress who leads a stable life falls in love with her daughter's teacher.

The degenerate alcoholics, the men and women of the beaches, themselves speak openly about their lives and problems. Through their stories, a picture emerges of those on the periphery of society who succumbed to alcohol because of war or difficult living conditions. They are aware of their own State; reason is still there, but the Will is lacking. The film is a cry for help on behalf of humans, it is a dispassionate and honest description of the position of degenerate alcoholics in Finnish society in the early 1970s.

This work was created to commemorate the reversion of Okinawa to Japan.

After seeing Velvet Underground perform in Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitables in New York, Tanaami became interested stroboscopic effects. This flicker film was conceived as the first of many but this was the only one that was realized. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

"Desire Caught by the Tail" - One can not understand this piece as meaningful and meaningful unity and should be careful not to read too much into it. Picasso himself said he wanted to suggest sensations through the verbal sound itself.

The bitter film grotesque focuses on a Socialist Mafioso. Vágó, the enthusiastic young propagandist is put up at Apuka (Daddy) of the outskirts, Dávid. In the hands of Apuka everything becomes money and he skilfully avoids inspection and controls. In order to help his little family, he sells his rabbit husbandry as mutton, he practises usury on and blackmails his tenants, their rooms are operated as cigar stores.

A Woman's Place is the first film about the UK women's liberation movement. Crockford and her co-producers Ellen Adams and Tony Wickert document the movement's first national conference and march and examine its demands. The film records impassioned discussions and speeches, as well as the humour of the marchers. It also includes interviews with members of the public who give their perspective on women's liberation Crockford made the film as an attempt to see 'whether other people could be engaged by what I believed in'.

Also called "Rain Drop's Fate" or "Like The Falling Raindrops", Như Hạt Mưa Sa is a black and white film based on the novel of the same name by the late writer Ngọc Linh made by Việt Ảnh Film. Bạch Tuyết played the role of Dã Lan with Trần Quang, the painter Thuyên, and Thẩm Thúy Hằng played the roles of Yến and Dung (twin sisters), Đoàn Châu Mậu, Tony Hiếu, Tùng Lâm... The film was made in 1971.

Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.

An entertaining musical film, where a bright and colorful story presents a humorous, sometimes satirical modern struggle between good and evil.

The professor loses his wallet. Thinking that he has fallen prey to a thief, he takes it from the man whom he suspects of theft.

The story of a sex offender who committed murders by changing his clothes.

A talented young musician, Petros Apostolou, arrives in Athens and soon manages to record his first album. The success comes along with the love of young Anna, the niece of the director of the recording company, Mr. Theoharis. Despite her uncle's objections, Anna marries him, stays pregnant and dies at birth, but brings a little boy to the world. The blow is too heavy for Peter, who abandons everything.

The story takes place in Turkestan in the year 1920. Along the narrow and deserted streets of nighttime Bukhara echoes the voice of a watchman: “All is calm in sacred Bukhara!” But how deceptive this calm is! Bukhara is gripped by intense struggle. The last Emir of Bukhara, nicknamed “the Black Consul” for the executions and the blood spilled at his command, is desperately trying to hold on to power.

Gharnata (Granada) was the last Muslim region in Spain, which was fall on January 2, 1492. The last Muslim ruler Emir Muhammad XII surrendered complete control to Fernando V and Isabella I, after the last battle of the Granada War.

The short film depicts the production line of a large automobile factory, namely the Fiat Mirafiori in Turin, looking in particular to the relationship between the worker and the machine he maneuvers

Based on the Greek myth of Narcissus and Echo, Foldes employed live-action photography and visual feedback synthesizers from France's Computer Image Corporation to tell the tale in a disquieting, psychedelic manner.

Starring magician Mark Wilson, his partner Nani Darnell Wilson, and Paul Frees as Poppin Fresh, the Pillsbury Doughboy. as you see sketches of performers doing magic and Pillsbury commercials also being shown too. Other people include illusionist Greg Wilson, Bev Bergeron as Rebo the Clown, Dai Vernon, Shimada, Jay Marshall, Rico, Carl Ballantine, and Art Metrano.

A Punjabi social drama directed by Fyaz Sheikh. Starring Habib and Firdous.

A Ghanaian fashion student and a Nigerian squash player are among the Africans making a life in 70s Britain.

A Documentary about basic film terms, applied through a short film.

"In Germany, I bought an old 35mm Debrie camera. I spent several weeks working with this camera and found that its mechanics were marvelously thought out and that the way the camera was made was proof of the skilled craftsmanship back then. I developed a procedure which also allowed me to use the camera as a printing machine. The printing process is not so different from the filming process, as far as the transport of the film goes . . . It was a lot of fun to try to exhaust the possibilities of the Debrie. It was not only the mechanics that were exciting, like the works of a wonderful old clock, but the numerous possibilities for the realization of the second part of the film, too. This consists mainly of what has already been shot, but offers at least 50% more experimental manipulations in the printed part." (HHK)

A Mexican bandit faces the firing squad - the call to fire about to be made. Suddenly, out of nowhere a lone man appears, killing the entire squad. But this act of mercy was not performed out of kindness or compassion...the stranger has one half of a map that leads to a cache of gold; the outlaw has the other.

About the causes of heart disease and the prevention of these dangerous diseases.

A man tries to train a camera.

The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.

In an ironic reference to body art, process art and performance, Baldessari challenges definitions of the content and execution of art-making. Performing with deadpan precision, he moves his hands, arms and entire body in studied, minute motions, intoning the phrase "I am making art" with each gesture. Each articulation of the phrase is given a different emphasis and nuance, as if art were being created from moment to moment. This index of body movements is ironically offset by the repetitive monotony of the exercise.

Kozue, who was in the first year of Fujimi Gakuen High School, and Tsutomu, who succeeded the fruit and vegetable shop of the family business, were close friends who encouraged each other. At that time, Kozue's chest was struck by the trinity attack of the three Yagisawa sisters. Teradoin High School, where these three sisters are, won the Inter-High for the third consecutive year. There is no glory for Kozue unless this attack is defeated. Then, Kozue's bloody practice was repeated, and the final match with the temple temple high school that he headed for. However, during that time, Tsutomu received the news that he was in critical condition due to a traffic accident. With sadness in his chest, Kozue challenged a new technique, double attack, as much as he could.

Thai movie 'Luk Yot' (ลูกยอด) was released in year 1971 and features Thai film superstars Krung Srivilai and Petchara Chaowara. It was Krung Srivilai's first movie. Krung was 4 years younger than Petchara so from being the younger sister (น้อง) with Mitr, Petchara becomes the older sister (พี่)! After Mitr Chaibancha’s tragic death in year 1970, the Thai cinema needed new faces, new main actors to replace the void caused by Mitr’s premature death. Only a two minutes trailer is remaining as the movie is lost in Thailand. A full movie summary is still available as some old Thai movie stars magazines can still be found nowadays. Various sequences can be seen during those two late minutes : Sithao Petcharoen paddling a small boat on a river and watching young ladies, shootings. Other actors / actresses include Pisarn Akraseranee, Choomporn Theppitak, Boo Wibunnan, Wassana Chalakorn, Sopha Sataporn, Preuhat Boonlong,Sukon Koewliam. 7 songs are featured in 35mm format.

In 1971, while the Japanese prime minister Sato Eisaku was visiting South Korea to attend a party for President Park Chung-hee, a group of eight South Korean hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) took a direct petition to the Japanese embassy. The South Korean hibakusha were detained by South Korean authorities for the duration of the prime minister’s visit. This film follows the lives of these eight people. That same year, Son Chin-tu, a hibakusha who had entered Japan illegally and was being held at the Omura Detention Center, filed his so-called “Hibakusha Certificate Lawsuit,” demanding Japanese residency and medical treatment.