Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

A very small girl, after several misadventures with forest creatures, finds the love of a flower prince.

This gun safety film starring John Wayne is just as timely and appropriate today as when it was first shown almost 40 years ago.

Józsi, a sailor who once traveled the world, dock worker and stable boy lives in the small village of Nyírmadocsa. From here he sets out to find a road roller for his small village, so that at last there will be a real road in the village. When Józsi, far from his beloved homeland, gets the engine, he sets off on an adventurous journey, roaring through Hungary towards his small reseda smelling village.

A two-hour investigation presented by Don Cupitt of Emmanuel College, Cambridge There can be little doubt that Jesus is in fashion. Even in a secular century, he seems to exercise as strong a grip as ever on our imagination. But is there any basis in history for the Jesus of television and cinema or the Christ of the Christian Church? Did such a man ever live and if so can we discover what he was like? Don Cupitt follows a trail of manuscripts and archaeological discoveries back to the time of Jesus. He consults John Fenton, Principal of St Chad's College, Durham, about the miracles and myths. George Caird, Professor-Elect of New Testament at Oxford, challenges the idea that Jesus thought of himself as the divine ' Son of God'. Other contributions and reactions from Professor Anthony Birley, Professor David Flusser, Bishop Christopher Butler, Canon Michael Green, songwriter Sydney Carter, and archaeologists Nahman Avigad and L. Y. Rahmani.

Csutak gets a role in a children's radio play, but has to face trouble when the star of the show turns out to be a juvenile mobster, who practices extortion on the local kids.

Chinese American Journalist Freida Lee Mock journeys across the West Coast to unearth her family history and the history of the Chinese community in America.

A sacrifice ritual in Dahomey [Benin].

1977 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

A flute playing cat leads a band composed of animals. The animated images accompany a recording of 'Eye Level'. Cats, mice, tigers, monkeys, camels, penguins, birds, as well as, a bear, a cheetah, an elephant, and a seagull appear with stop-clock precision to play instruments featured in the recording at appropriate points in the sound track. The flute-playing cat vies with a lion bandmaster in leading the band.

Iranian drama film

On the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, street surveys and interviews with citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany provide information about what they know and think about this event.

Reel from the Tel al Zaatar outtakes. The following was written on this reel: “artigliere – batteria – danza di fucili – Munir-funerale“. In this footage, we see women dancing with rifles, men playing bagpipes, Abu Saleh, Um Ali (Um il thawra, who lost 4 sons), Martyr’s Cemetery (on the outskirts of the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut) and a funeral procession with Mahmoud Darwish, Abu Saleh, Um Ali and many others. Courtesy of Emily Jacir, Monica Maurer and Johnny McAllister, AAMOD, Roma.

Based upon a story about spontaneous generation once told to me by a myopic seagull while we were incarcerated in a stalled elevator in Marina Del Ray.

On a festive day, all the little animals are happy with balloons — everyone except the hedgehog, because his needles make the balloons burst.

"Originally intended as one scene in a larger work concerned with the metaphorical destruction of the viewer (through demolition of the camera), Concord Ultimatum unexpectedly became the occasion of the larger project’s demise. In addressing the camera mechanism itself as a subject, and even offering to exchange positions with it, this performance dismembered at one stroke most of the aporias of the materialist/structuralist position in film theory. On the other hand, this work revealed no point of access to the visual image; its situationist grounding in a particular structure of events, which placed voice and performance at stage center, simultaneously won me over to the video medium and stripped me of visual tools (until Combat Status Go)."

This NFB docu-drama takes an unvarnished look at life in a working-class boarding house. Based on the filmmaker's memories of his own mother's boarding house in Cabbagetown, Toronto, the story revolves around Rose and how she runs her establishment. With a household as full and varied as hers, domesticity clashes with disputes about bootlegging, violence, and stealing. Even authority isn't exempt: she does battle with a social worker over her son's theft of a bicycle. Rose is the queen of her castle, and delivers her own brand of justice.

An executioner prepares to work. His red gloves turn into blood, and a cut tree symbolises his victim.

An humble bricklayer from Bogotá sees his persistence rewarded by winning the biggest prize in the lottery.

Interview with the Swedish artist John E. Franzén.

Macedonian TV drama.

A César winning short film about a young woman who was caught stealing 500 grams of calf's liver. The next day she relates the incident to a friend

A woman and a man meet in a crowded bus. A few years ago, they were in love.

A woman is abandoned by a man, gets hurt, and... In the end, a woman is abandoned by a man, she is hurt, and...

King Piechuch XII was always cold because he was really lazy. His palace was full of furnaces. One day, the furnaces broke down, the king began to run around the palace in panic. Unexpectedly, this was how he warmed his body up.

The film explores the First Nations perspective on Thomas R. Berger's Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry of the mid-1970s.

The world of Alagoas poet Jorge de Lima, author of unforgettable verses, is in O Grande Circo Místico, from 1977, directed by João Carlos Horta.

“I wanted to make grass grow...to show the life force of a tree. Bark-Rind was shot totally single-frame...each shot exposed three times...close-up, mid shot, long shot. I used the sound of insects, signifying pollination, life...and I tried to make their sound visible. The camera starts on the grass, flowers, then works its way up the trunk, into the crown of the tree, then onto the next tree. The film vibrates...switching from sound/film...film/sound. You wonder whether you're looking at a film image or at the sound itself.” (Paul Winkler)

This film is about the Moroccan Jews who have come to Québec since 1956. It explodes the myth of Jewish unity, showing the Moroccans caught between the Ashkenazy Jews, English-speaking and long established, and the French-speaking Québécois. The film asks whether the Sephardic Jew can be Jewish and Québécois at the same time.

Gabriel is the only film by the Canadian-American painter Agnes Martin. The film loosely follows the wanderings of a ten year old boy in rural New Mexico.

Second from last outing for the gentleman thief.

A compilation film, divided into four separate segments, that explores the life and work of the Flemish expressionist painter Frits Van den Berghe (1883–1939). What makes this inspired art film special is that director Buyens does not use a voice-over or commentary text, a deliberate choice intended to give the viewer the opportunity to discover and interpret the painter’s world on their own. Another striking feature is its stripped-down soundtrack, featuring music by Arsène Souffriau.

Educational film for students in the "Chemistry of radioactive transformations."

Jackie Shearer’s docudrama catching the tensions between two girls—one black, one white—during the desegregation of Boston’s public schools.

Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

Short film by Peter Kubelka. Arnulf Rainer contorts his mind and body before the camera.

London, Queen Mary College, 10 Nov 1977 1. Give A Little Bit 2. Bloody Well Right 3. Lady 4. From Now On 5. Babaji 6. Poor Boy 7. Dreamer 8. Another Man's Woman 9. Hide In Your Shell 10. Fool's Overture

A sitting portrait of John's friend Lis Guindon holding her months-old daughter Marie Claire, in their sitting-room in Cabbagetown, Toronto. They later moved to Quebec and lost contact with John. A single-shot film, taken at 3 seconds per frame over 2 hours, lit with a single table-lamp and using 3-second time exposures on each frame. Mothers particularly are amazed and amused by this film, saying it evokes their experience.

A brief deluge changes a realistic view into an abstraction.

Two members of the Linge Company look back. Max Manus and Knut Haukelid discuss concepts such as courage, voluntary commitment, cowardice, and passivity.

Certainly by today's standards, and even in the minds of people at church, Betsy classified as a good girl. She and Michael — high school steadies - fell madly in love. Or so they thought. Like Betsy, Michael owned an exemplary reputation. He, too, participated actively with the youth at their church. But then everything changed, suddenly and cruelly, when Betsy missed school one day to see a doctor. The doctor confirmed her fears. She was pregnant. The soft music silent, the glow of romance dim, Michael and Betsy discovered they really weren't in love at all. That didn't change the fact, however, of a new life they had brought into existence. Should they get married? Should Betsy submit to an abortion? Should she have the baby and offer it for adoption? Should she keep the baby as a single mother?

Documentary film covers issue of Middle East problem, its history and contemporary state of things.

Because of the boy's prank, there is a chaos among adults at seven and a half.

Showed children's kindness and desire to love animals. The second picture shows a little boy creating a piece for his mother and expressing his love.