Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

Television movie.

A cartoon comedy about glorious sailors and their admirers from a small island floating in the open sea. The sea wolves from the islet cheerfully wave to the ship sailing up to their haven. And one of them brought bad luck and the rest of the islanders were very angry at the poor guy.

Shortly after his reception at the French Academy in 1973, Claude Lévi-Strauss confided, in an exceptional interview, to the director Jean-Claude Bringuier. An approach by Claude Lévi-Strauss is a rare film in that it composes both a portrait of the man – a secret if ever there was one – and a fertile exploration of his intellectual work.

TV Garden is Paik’s imagined future landscape where technology is an integral part of the natural world. Placing television sets amongst live plants, he creates an environment in which the seemingly distinct realms of electronics and nature coexist. His approach follows the Buddhist philosophy that everything is interdependent. It also suggests that technology is not in conflict with nature but an extension of the human realm.

Vijay lives a wealthy lifestyle with his widowed grandmother in a palatial house. He spends all day in bed, and all night in the company of at least one girlfriend. He travels to Kashmir, has an affair with beautiful Gita, spends the night with her, and even poses as her husband. Upon his return to Bombay, he loses his heart to gorgeous Sunita, who also falls in love with him. All this comes to naught, when Sunita finds out that he has a girlfriend in Nita, not knowing that Nita is only employed with Vijay's firm. Nita's positive influence does get Vijay to mend his ways, and he decides to introduce Nita to his grandma so that they can get married. But a surprise awaits Vijay there when Gita arrives from Kashmir along with her brother, Pyarelal and a small child, she claims is Vijay's. Watch what impact this has on Nita and Vijay's grandmother, and on Vijay, who must now get used to being a husband and father.

Orhan, who works at a bank, has an unhappy marriage. His wife, Şermin, drinks constantly, gambles, and neglects her family. Orhan tries to keep his marriage going for the sake of his son. However, one day, after an argument with his wife, Şermin leaves home. After his wife leaves, Orhan meets Leyla, a singer. What begins as a simple fling turns into love for Orhan. However, being with Leyla will not be as easy as Orhan had imagined.

Consistent stylistic-thematic structures link and merge throughout the bewildering event chain. The distinction between organic forms and human artifacts is blurred by the visual style which is enigmatic without being ambiguous.

The novella tells of the disputes between the vendors of two beer stands set up on the street, and how these disputes between rivals give rise to goodwill.

A young woman sits on a bench in a baroque park. The motion of the wind in the leaves, in her hair, and also the flutter of her eyelashes, the opening of her lips, her imperceptible smile are all made visible with the absolutely static camera. A large baroque birdcage symbolizes a hopeless emotional situation. (Friedl vom Gröller)

One of Daniel Johnston's short films made as a teenager.

John Pilger returns to Vietnam in 1974. America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had not ended. During this ‘peace’, more than 70,000 soldiers and civilians had been killed.

Short film about Antonio 'Pinuccio' Morleo, an 11-year-old Italian boy living in Germany.

The main storyline revolves around the love triangle Dzung - Linh - Ngoc, accompanied by friendship relationships among Saigon youth in the last years of the war.

A morality play about human fantasy losing its creativity if it becomes a means of making money. In this film it is the ability of a boy to create colored "nonsense" that becomes a trade for his parents. The colored clouds of the little boy produced on the basis of orders eventually change to gray cubes.

Held in 1972 at 533 N. Mariposa Street, Los Angeles was one of the most important cultural events in the United States: "Womanhouse," a feminist art installation and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro.

A wealthy business executive finds his daughter dead from a drug overdose. A police inspector tries to find the drug dealers.

The battle of Eureka Stockade was an event of great significance in Australian history, in which gold miners from around the world rebelled against an unfair Miners' Tax and the way in which it was administered by the colonial government. In 1973, to commemorate its 119th anniversary, the original Eureka flag was unveiled by the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in Victoria. In his speech Mr Whitlam identified the Eureka Stockade with the birth of democracy in Australia and Immigration minister Al Grassby read verses by the people's poet Henry Lawson in honour of the occasion.

Georgian Morozko tried to freeze a boy who came to the forest for firewood. But the hardworking guy passed the test, and in the end he was awarded.

Examining the case of Martin Sostre, a black Puerto Rican bookstore owner in Buffalo, New York who was framed on drug possession charges in 1967 and sentenced to prison, this film shows how the American justice system can be abused for purposes of political repression.

Buba introduces us to a Braddock entrepreneur who has failed at twelve businesses and is busy teaching would-be entrepreneurs self-confidence.

A series of enactments of kids in situations that scare them, as they sing about their fears to a catchy tune. The message for kids being that it's ok to feel scared sometimes.

Animated short film made in three parts on the pin screen by Alexeieff-Parker. With these three exercises, director Jacques Drouin experiments with the play of light and shadow alone. Original, this experience presents us with a reality that is not truncated although it may appear as follows: the faculty of wonder will be able to create the necessary link between everyday life and the way it was rendered.

One, Two, Three is a collection of three vignettes, entitled “The Shower,” “The Bird” and “The Machine.” They each place a doughy, confused man into a frustrating situation.

“For Gehr, SHIFT broke new ground, hence perhaps a pun in its title. The film is his first to employ extensive montage. The actors are all mechanical – a series of cars and trucks filmed from a height of several stories as they perform on a three-lane city street. Gehr isolates one or two vehicles at a time, inverting some shots, so that a car hangs from the asphalt like a bat from a rafter, using angles so severe the traffic often seems to be sliding off the earth, and employing a reverse motion so abrupt that the players frequently exit the scene as though yanked from a stage by the proverbial hook. A sparse score of traffic noises accompanies the spastic ballet mecanique...” – J. Hoberman

"Like all the works I have done which refer directly to another artist, After Lumière… is not directly 'about' the Lumière original. It is the starting point for an investigation. In this case it is an investigation into consequentiality, or at least the significance of sequentiality in the construction of meaning and concept. As such, the film encroaches on 'narrative' cinema, but in a way which treats narrativization as problematic, not transparent." - Malcolm Le Grice

The film discusses the gap between the public and "accepted" art.

Two close friends arrive in Seoul from a small village to pursue their dreams, but the realities of life are too much for them to bear.

A look at the manufacture and use of Polar diesel engines.

This is a dramatic story set in modern times of a Native American man and his friends who run afoul of the law.

A Cuban dance short, choreographed by Eduardo Rivero.

A day at a drag race track. Features Don Garlits and Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, driving their 3,000 horsepower, nitro-methane burning dragsters.

A short TV filler rendering the raga Megh Malhar as sung by Ustad Amir Khan. The Megh Malhar evoking the rain gods is generally sung between 11.30 PM and 1.00 AM.

Alabama governor George Wallace made his name as a segregationist remembered for standing “in the schoolhouse door” of the University of Alabama in 1963 in an attempt to stop the enrolment of black students. John Pilger subsequently interviewed Wallace on the campaign trail during two general elections.During the second, in 1972, Wallace was shot in an assassination attempt, leaving him paralysed and in a wheelchair. In The Most Powerful Politician in America, made in 1974, Pilger looks at the likelihood that a reinvented Wallace will run for the White House two years later, manipulating contemporary American passions and exploiting his influence in the powerful “Dixie” states controlled by the Democratic Party.

Annie Mae starts her day with fanciful looks out her window, and then reality sets in.

Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais, it was Mauro's only film in color and also his last.

Son of Satan is a Malay film published in Malaysia in 1974 Movies Son of Satan published in any format without the color white. This film was directed by director Omar Rojik.

The diverse manifestations of Peruvian craftsmanship using ancient knowledge, executed by regional artists in stone, ceramics, wood, and metals.

Titiek, a widowed “dangdut” singer, has adoptive children, Ateng and his older sibling, Enny. Meanwhile Eddy Sud, a widower whose collection is 90 per cent “dangdut” songs, has a daughter, Vivi, whose Ateng had relationship with. Their parents don't approve of the romance between Ateng and Vivi, so they keep their relationship a secret.

Shot originally in Super 8, this poignant short film by the artist Anna Maria Maiolino references Oswald de Andrade’s notion of cultural cannibalism from the 1920s, which was reinterpreted as tropicalismo in the 70s. The film presents a sequence of close-up shots of a male and a female mouth that trade gestures and expressions, creating an ambiguous dialogue, an oblique reference to the hardships of a female artist and the censorship and violence of the Brazilian dictatorship.

The conflict between the spirit of fraternity and that of commercial competition at the Christmas party in Lima.

ca. 1974, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Fast -paced film works its way through American culture in a crazy quilt of images and wild sounds including truckers’ CB radio banter and arcade machine gun fire. A theme of give and take is established as a young man tries to get rid of a coconut head, visits a carnival peep show, dances and twirls batons with a dog, and finally hops a truck to somewhere.

Approximately 3300 years ago, on a cuneiform tablet, the Hittite King Muvatalli begged the Storm God. However, a hundred years later, severe storms blew over Anatolia, and the "Land of Hatti" and what we call the "Land of the Hittite" today became a pile of stones and earth, from one end to the other. But this civilization still lives on the traces they left in Anatolia and will continue to live for centuries. The documentary "From Hattis to Hittites", produced by Suha Arın in 1974 with the support of the Turing and Automobile Association, as the first film in the "Traces of Anatolian Civilizations" series, is restored 45 years later from original negatives and magnetic sound tapes.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the disease, and the current methods of treatment. It further stresses the importance of research into develop new and better treatments.

In a forest, a woman is bound by rope and string to the trees. Gradually, she begins to remove the bindings.

A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

This film traces the development of prison philosophy; how prisons have been used historically and their function today. From the period of the slave trade through the mid-70s, this film shows how the legal system had been used against poor communities in general and people of color in particular. At the same time it presents a history of continuous resistance to unjust laws in the United States. WE DEMAND FREEDOM contains footage from prisons in California, Texas, Massachusetts and New Jersey and documents the point of view of a group of prisoners that are becoming aware of their potential as a powerful political force.

TVTV turns its critical eye to the world of advertising in Adland, subtitled Where Commercials Come From. Focusing on the reality behind the image, and specifically on the strategies of Madison Avenue, they interview prominent 1970s admen such as George Lois and Jerry Della Femina. They also go behind the scenes of commercial shoots, where such figures as Ronald McDonald and the precocious child actor Mason Reese are put through grinding routines, only to reveal themselves as jaded pros off-camera. In this clear-eyed look at the manipulation inherent in advertising, the TVTV crew meets its match in the relentless cynicism and masculine braggadocio of the seasoned admen; ultimately, TVTV conveys respect for the savvy and skills of these shrewd veterans.

Climb is a 1974 short documentary directed by DeWitt Jones featuring Michael Farrell and Russell Mclean. It is about rock climbing that takes place in Washington Column. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Pink film by Shinya Yamamoto.