Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Ironbark Bill has to buck a broncho using his strong lasso.

Deepa, heiress to a vast fortune, loves and marries Vijay, a small-time criminal. Fate takes unusual turns and Vijay unearths a conspiracy while protecting Deepa and her property.

Bollywood 1972

This film is the beginning of an examination of the perceptual and conceptual structures which can be dealt with using pure colour sequences in loop forms with pictorial material. In this case the pictorial material is confined to three landscape locations, and the structure is not mathematically rigorous.

Documentary from British Transport Films

Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror images vertical to each other. The images created are generally a myriad of faces in silhouette. Those silhouettes however often take on abstract forms in their entirety.

Pinku from 1972.

A documentary about the Apollo 13 moon shot that was nearly lost in space.

George the pool cleaner gives lessons in love to Valley girls and their moms.

Elton John Sounds For Saturday Live BBC 1971 DVD PRO SHOT superb quality,

Images of arid landscapes, volcanic rocks, and a wild sea accompany six poems narrated by Oswald Specht: 'Sekura' by Enrique Goilo, 'Keho' by Elis Juliana, 'Laman' by Pieters Kwiers, 'Te Awora Laman' by Luis Daal, and 'Atardi' by Joseph Sickman Corsen.

Egypt 1972 archive footage

Documentary about the 1971 World Championship for free-flight model aircraft.

Using the village of Ulyakhino in the Gus-Khrustalny District of the Vladimir Region as a case study, the filmmakers chronicle the changes taking place in rural life: year-round employment for residents, diversified economic activities, increased crop yields and milk production, and the desire of young people to remain in the village to live and work; they also depict the daily duties and concerns of the collective farm chairman, Stepan Petrovich Ginin—a Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Views of the city of Kiselyovsk, located in the Kuznetsk coal basin: streets, buildings, and people on the city streets.

A young woman is trapped in her daily routine, across a 24-hour period. After her husband gets out of bed and heads off to work, the woman goes out and embarks on an intimate odyssey.

A record of the village of Letnica in Upper Morava, Kosovo, whose miraculous Madonna numerous pilgrims of Roma, Janjevo, Albanian and Serbian origin implore for offspring.

Seemingly lost Bruce Lee parody filmed 'mostly' in colour!

Playwright Frank Chin's documentary about the efforts to preserve the Kwan Tai Temple in Hanford, California, which dates back to 1893

"A simple, entirely unaffected portrait of a family which happens to be black" is how Sid's Family was described by a Monthly Film Bulletin reviewer at the time of its release. The film is the first in a trilogy charting the lives of Jamaican-born, Bristol-based Sid Williams and his family at eight year intervals from 1972 through 1980 to 1988.

Explores the area of Krasnoyarsk where Lenin was exiled in 1897.

It is a 15-minute black-and-white short film produced in Italy in 1972. It was scheduled for screenings in mid-December 1976 in Italy, appearing in both evening and late-night slots of Kinomata retrospective.

Short documentary exploring transport and town-life in the icy climes of Kolyma in the Russian Far East, where gold is mined and villagers hold a festival to say farewell to the winter.

Short documentary exploring daily life in Khorugh.

Mark and his friend are tasked with overseeing safety at a park filled with playful spirits. They encounter Axel, a spirit in a bad mood, who inadvertently causes chaos when a rowdy football team arrives. After realizing the importance of safety and respect for others, Axel takes charge, ensuring everyone plays safely and enjoys their time in the park, ultimately restoring happiness.

Travelogue of the South Urals, showing forests, wildlife, caves and the town of Ufa.

Portable Channel video feature Bonnie Klein, Steve Manes and David Christoff. The trio head to Sibley's department store in Rochester to interrogate Santa and the toy selections about popular understanding of gender roles.

This colorful introduction to India’s greatest theatre tradition - the dance-drama of Kathakali features the Kerala Kalamadalam Company performing dances of the State of Kerala which have evolved out of the Sanskrit tradition and the indigenous Dravidian culture. The dancers display a great richness of costume, vivid color and originality of head-dress.

The curved, reflective sculptures of William Pye create different ways of reading space. Shapes seem to grow or move organically and the viewer's perception of the surrounding natural phenomena is also affected.

A film by Fritz André Kracht

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Second statement that recounts the betrayal of a group of electricians from Celaya, who join the official unionism breaking the unity sought by the democratic and independent unionism.

Workers are rising up in more than 40 cities against "charrismo," official unionism linked to the government or companies to the detriment of the workers.

Colourful lines and geometric figures move and change to the notes of a disjointed Wilhelmus [Dutch national anthem]. As the film progresses the disjointed music finds its way back to the original and flowing performance of the national anthem. The colours and figures move simultaneously into the shape and the tricolour of the Dutch flag.

As night deepened and all was quiet, Shuming cried out his lover's name, drawing the audience into a whirlpool of memories. He encounters Fang Jiang, a single mother, yet both carry their own unresolved family burdens. Fang Jiang is pursued by the married Wen Sheng, while Shi Ming's wife, Yuan Yuan, though sensing something amiss, feels sympathy for Fang Jiang. The desires, guilt, and realities of married men and women tear at every sensitive heart. This film piles up melodramatic tropes to a breaking point, its devastating impact is astonishing.

A young playboy has a picnic with the naked woman he’s abducted. When he takes her back to his flat, the power dynamics dramatically shift.

An "Open letter to the directors of the Municipal Transport Company in Warsaw", an appeal for a more rational and passenger-oriented communication policy in the capital. From the film we learn that when asked about the causes of problems with Warsaw public transport, the authorities typically give the same answer: "objective difficulties" are to blame. The author of the documentary, the author of many films devoted to the faults and thoughtlessness of Warsaw officials, managed to identify 8 basic difficulties that make the use of public transport in the capital city in the early 1970s a nightmare. The degree of their "objectivity" can be decided by the viewer himself.

Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.

I admit today, I benefited at the time of the shooting of this short film with an experimental character from the complicity of a former classmate, son of the boss of this garment factory. I had interfered by making it seem like I was shooting a document about the manufacturing of overalls. But I was there to illustrate the words of a young worker, daughter of a militant CGT of the railway and activist cégétiste herself. The film includes two parts: the ritual of punching out from the first to the last worker and the jostle of the exit into the bicycle garage. The first part is interspersed with 5 mini-sequences of work symbolizing the sum of 40 weekly hours.

During the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, the marginality of housing in a sector of Santiago contrasts with the violence with which groups of right-wing youths confront, with their “September Plan”, the popular activism that unfolds in the central streets of the city of Santiago.

Documentary about the visit of US civil rights activist and member of the American Communist Party, Angela Davis, with friends Kendra and Franklin Alexander, to the Soviet Union.

A deeply silly stop motion film starring a quartet of fruit, made by four boys from St. Thomas of Canterbury grade school in Chicago. It won an award at the 1972 Young Chicago Filmmaker's Festival, sponsored by the Chicago Public Library.

Two girls and a young man experience jealous tensions and companionship in Central Park on a summer afternoon.

A look at the horrors of highway fatalities, with a minor focus on Congressional attempts to legislate highway safety.

Tells the story of the logging industry in Oregon, with emphasis on older logging techniques. The film lacks a traditional narrator, instead giving us interviews with loggers taped in the field or their homes. To help us visualize the words of the loggers, Finne edits them together with shots of the Northwestern wilderness, both in Oregon and Washington. Also featured is old footage and photographs of loggers, stunts and jokes of the loggers.

Explores the expressions and impact of vandalism on communities.

A film by Timothy Knox.