Cinematic Era: 1973 Vintage

Short film of an eclipse.

About how Zlodov saved the people from a stupid deva and a greedy king.

Made in 1973 as an early experiment in 3D animation using Super 8 film. Sheila loved the song, so timed it with a stop watch frame by frame, and animated to the timings at 24 frames per second. The section of Little Jackie Paper growing up gained approval from her local cine club, encouraging her to go on to make a lifetime’s career from animation.. but unlike Jackie she kept her love of Dragons and Fun!

Lost Zulueta short

The seventh year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali.

Presentations by popular groups and singers such as Inti-Illimani, Violeta Parra are shown. Its quality and great reception among the attending public stands out.

Interviews and reports allow a sample of people ranging from the man in the street to the doctor, to express themselves on sexuality.

A surreal, anarchic and plotless movie about a man who tries to take up his dead father's business, taking aim against contemporary Greek reality. Banned by the Greek dictatorship.

Calvin, president of his record collecting club, ekes out a merger livelihood by selling old records to fellow collectors. He is however, frustrated with his life and longs for more than just being “The King of a Pack of Losers“. One day, while walking home after buying a collection, he stumbles into nasty Mickey and his “kinky’ girlfriend Priscilla -who takes a shine to him. The vicious and jealous Mickey sets Calvin on a life transformation. Highly stylized, remarkably good acting “The Gramophone Man” is full of bizarre twists and turns (one sequence features Jack Smith of “Flaming Creatures” in an outrageous Drag Queen outfit), With intense humor and distorted pathos, the film barrows towards its powerful finale.

Photographs of a nude, arranged into stop-motion sequences on the left half of the screen, are juxtaposed with a close-up of the film itself passing in front of a viewer, gradually revealed on the right half of the screen.

The Swagman character from ‘Waltzing Matilda’ moved from the billabong to a modern city and the problems he encounters in this new setting.

This very short documentary from the Hinterland’s Who’s Who series is an introduction to the canvasback duck.

Opinions of workers of the textile industry on the theses of the XIII Labor Congress of the CTC.

The film shows a humorous take on moments from the life of Karl Marx over the course of a quarter century.

This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers. A color remake of Sid Davis's 1961 Boys Beware, using the same script and narration.

Follows the young mayor of the Stroniec municipality in his interactions with local people.

1973 Gitai super8 short

Directed by Bagrat Hovhanessian.

Pinku from 1973.

An unfulfilled housewife looks for escape from her banal existence by dabbling in the occult, causing her life to spin hideously out of control.

This film presents three possible techniques or methods that make it possible to meet the growing demand for wood without the country becoming a desert: spontaneous reforestation, carried out by the country's youth, technical and commercial plantation, and the comprehensive use of forests. . Scientists and farmers, peasants and young people express their opinions on these techniques and on the critical situation that the country is going through. The "lone witness", a tree abandoned to its fate in the middle of infertile pastures in the Puriscal area, leaves graphic testimony about the felling of trees taken to the absurd.

A narrative self-discovery theme done in real time in Art Nouveau style.

Mexican feature film

Career overview of Hollywood director "Wild Bill" Wellman,

One year after the creation of the National Assembly of Community Representatives (1972), a new power structure established by the government, significant changes had taken place throughout the country. This documentary records the most important of these transformations, as well as the working methods of the Assembly. It follows the consultation tours organized by the Legislative Council, during which basic forms of grassroots organization are discussed at the community level. The film also draws a parallel between life in the countryside and in the city.

Festivities surrounding Queen Juliana's 25th anniversary of her reign.

Short film.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi (as Kazuo Kasahara).

Short film by Josefina Jordán and Franca Donda, for the Venezuelan feminist collective Grupo Miércoles.

The three anonymous protagonists of the film are each sent to a different type of community a kibbutz, moshav, and moshava, to learn about their special characteristics and the different lifestyles of their residents, and also meet a mysterious girl along the way. In this part, we follow our hero who was sent to a kibbutz.

A "spiritual" soap opera, dealing with blackmail and bisexuality. The camera refuses to manipulate, but is rather an interested spectator. The plot unfolds organically (rather than mechanically) as the actors (through the vehicle of skeletal storyline and spirited, and inspired, improvisation) begin to absorb the feelings and traits of the characters they are portraying. An experiment within the narrative tradition, and a critique and extension of the possibilities within that form. Inspired by the early narrative films of Andy Warhol.

Film notable for being created by physically "cooking" the film stock, similar to his other 1973 work, "Curried 7302". The name likely references this process of using heat, as well as the "structural film" methods Conrad employed to alter the film's physical properties and the resulting image.

A portrayal of the harsh conditions faced by Salvadorans in the 1960s and 70s.

The music film is attended by honored artists of the Buryat Opera and Ballet Theater and the Baikal State Song and Dance Ensemble.

A bird obsessed with motors is attracted by the motor-like sound that insects make in flight and tries to imitate them. Seeing a plane, he perches on it blithely so that he can fly with a motor at last. But the plane has trouble and the pilot ends up taking an unwanted bath in the pond. That frees the bird of his obsession: he begins to fly naturally again and when a mosquito comes back to make fun of him, he gobbles him up.

While active in the programming of ABC affiliate Channel 5 in Boston, Gardner was permitted to make a few short one-minute vignettes illustrating the working lives of relatively ordinary people. These vignettes were meant to be used by the TV station as ‘non commercials’ or unexpected looks at ordinary lives.

Documentary focusing on the positives and negatives of policing in London in the 1970s.

A short documentary shot in early 1973 by four media/communications majors at Berkeley going around the Bay Area to document the new high tech entertainment industry of computer and arcade games.

As the moon reflects the sun, so the painter reflects the world.' These words spoken by Renata Druks suggest the lunar nature of this reflection as it applies to her work. Her film poetically examines the transmutation of reality into the painter's vision.

Grigny-La Grande Borne, a large housing project south of Paris, the miserable condition of the buildings in the large city.

Family surprise. East German animated film.

The Master of the No Clan School swears revenge after he is crippled illegally in a tournament by a rep from the Iron Fist School run by the Triads. His trained children enter the tournament years later to bring the Iron Fist School to justice.

Dedicated to the One Eye Love is a Chaplinesque meditation on silent film, and a rather apocalyptic view of Chicago in the early 1970s. A homeless man roams the streets of an empty downtown. The sky keeps flashing as though bombs were dropping, or perhaps the BIG one. He meets a woman in an abandoned building. They dance and part company.

"...contains a cacophony of visual imagery, taken from personal life and imagination, set to the Mother's of Invention Song which is cynical about love. An early film containing hints fo later imagery and concerns." P.Z.

A Hector Heathcote short.

Movie about a psychedelic meeting with two other artists.

Documentary about workers of a stone working factory who bought their bankrupt company in an auction in order to save their jobs. The workers and employees of BEKU, a concrete and artificial stone factory in Franconia, are questioning their management.

The wise criminal and his accomplices kidnap the beautiful Zea and prepare to put her in the bath that kills. Her husband manages to save her and it is the wise man who falls in his place and dissolves in the strange solution. The accomplices take to the cemetery a bathtub filled with a liquid in which the professor is dissolving. They spray the grave with said solution and that is when they are taken prisoner.

"The most exciting thing going on in Europe, if not the world": welcome to Milton Keynes circa 1973.

A story about the life of an old woman named Burma. Coarsened and hardened in soul, she becomes attached and imbued with maternal love for a strange boy and feels happy.

A suburban couple calls the police to intervene after being harassed by a youth.