Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

Under socialism, everyone and everything was expected. However, a few resourceful individuals have always found a shorter way. With its critical attitude to the "economics of scarcity", this film differs significantly from the rest of the work of Helena Rabarová-Slavíková , who primarily devoted herself to children's work and is known especially for her cycle of folklore verses for children Maľovanky - spievanky

A series of short stories with bottles.

The film Zatrap, shot in Black & White, in 16 MM, and in Creole/French, pinpoints the problems of a departmentalized Martinique, which no longer produces anything and depends on containers to feed its population. A Martinique that was preparing to "give" its daughters and sons to the mother country, metropolitan France, to work for the PTT (post office), the RATP (metro) and the AP (hospitals). At the time, Césaire called this transfer “genocide by substitution”, because at the same time as these young people were going into exile, other inhabitants from France were settling in Martinique.

Wolke in Hosen

In the style of a guidebook, the film provides information on healthy movement development in the first year of life, gives tips on how parents can promote this and identifies signs of treatable damage.

About Viktor Stepanovich Litvinenko, Director of the Tutaevsky Diesel Engine Plant in the Yaroslavl region.

Cartoon about a person who wants to break out of the framework around him - sometimes it's no use fighting back.

1978-81. USA. Directed by M. Henry Jones. 16mm. 3 min.

This was filmed in 16mm b/w without sound as a work for hire by Barry Masterson, who developed the film itself; hence, the faded, grainy quality. This was a party I had at The Plaza Hotel in June of 1981, for my birthday and also to celebrate my imminent departure for a semester at university in Italy. There are many, many famous people in this movie -- can you spot them?

The optical track of Observing Enemy Movements on clear leader. May be played with or without projector beam. – D.R.

Impressions of the domestic prison and the suburban landscape through object animation, exploration of sound-image relationships and a variety of other techniques used to non-naturalistic, often humorous, effect. – National Film & Sound Archive

The love story of a teacher and a student.

An anthology of various children's parties

Education of communist party members in former Yugoslavia.

A French military training film depicting a battle against mutants created by a meteorite.

Troubled by the headlines in his morning newspaper, a man cancels his subscription to try and find peace.

Comedian Bob Hope and his guests spoof the 1981 Fall TV season.

Bob Hope celebrates 30 years in television.

The closing of the 1981 union week in Brejo, Paraíba.

A group of women being blackmailed by a gang in order to get them to steal money, the women struggle with all their skill, with the help of a security officer, to trap the gang

A short piece about a woman who becomes increasingly upset in her efforts to respond to a letter

An Israeli student film about anti-Zionist propaganda.

A documentary about tiger-shooting in Sumatra.

Lost Jack Smith film

It shows the importance of Buddhist abbots in Thai society. A young man, without parents and who has always lived in temples ("DEK WAT" - the Temple Boy), is in love with a young woman. Her parents don't want a poor groom. Hopefully the abbot might help?

A short film depicting a young woman wandering around Warsaw Central Station while being observed and stalked by several men.

17-year-old Krasi, before coming of age, decided to take his own path in life. His mother supports him in this decision. He meets love, friendship, meanness. The plot is based on the relationship between Krasi and his friend Pepi. Two friends go to work on a large construction site. They turn into two sides of the same conflict-for principle and compromise.

The 38th GRAND MATCH of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club held on the frozen Lake of Menteith in 1979.

The porajmos, that is, the Roma holocaust, is an area of 20th century history that is still not fully explored. There are no accurate details on the number of victims and not a single Gypsy witness was called at the Nuremburg Trials. In 1981, this documentary by József Lakatos was one of the first to use the tools of motion pictures to draw attention to this devastating historical trauma. The film honours the forgotten dead through the input of a historian and the recording of accounts by survivors.

This is Volume 7 of Target Video's compilation video series Underground Forces. This one has some really fascinating material for fans of obscure video art of the early 1980s. Here is a list of the videos and performances on Volume 7: 01 ADS-Waiting For The War 02 Sex Pistols-Holiday In The Sun (Film) 03 Mekanik Destruct (Live) 04 Solidarnose (Film) 05 Exploited-Troops Of Tomorrow (Live) 06 Crucifix (Live) 07 Ch 3-He's Gotta Gun, Catholic Boy (Live) 09 Colossus-Art 10 Minimal Man-Two Little Skeletons

Nick Bockwinkel vs Billy Robinson Ken Patera & Bobby Duncum vs Hulk Hogan & Tito Santana via DQ Non-Title: Jerry Blackwell & Sheik Adnan vs Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell Buck Zumhofe vs Bobby Heenan Rene Goulet vs Kenny Jay Curt Hennig vs Evan Johnson

Lulu performs in concert in front of her own fans at Blazer's Club, Windsor, including such well-known songs as To Sir with Love, Miss You Nights and Resurrection Shuffle.

Mr. Viola, who lives in a large castle, has no time for his granddaughter Claudia, and in fact, he has no time for himself either. He is constantly busy conferring with dignified gentlemen wearing black suits. Until one day, Pan Tau arrives. With him, Mr. Viola rediscovers his mischievous childhood, and Claudia is no longer bored.

A short film by Aleksandras Digimas and Algirdas Tumas.

Shine So Hard is an abstract and fragmentary (*) short film made in 1981, As the post-punk band Echo and the Bunnymen had concluded the tour promoting their debut album “Crocodiles”, Bill Drummond, their manager, hatched a plan for a one-off gig on 17th January 1981. It was to be a special event, a mystery show. The venue, at first a secret location was, in fact, the Victorian concert hall at the Pavilion Gardens in Buxton, a quiet spa town in Derbyshire’s picturesque Peak District. “Shine So Hard” documents the event, what Ian Pye of the Melody Maker described as ‘A Coppola inspired vision of Armageddon’. The film was released on the 13th of August 1981. It was premiered at London’s ICA and screened for two weeks there and elsewhere in the UK. (*) The book drummer Pete de Freitas is reading, is Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”.

The film tells about the danger of crossing the railway tracks in unspecified places.

3 video-games with the typical sound, made ​​by computer by Centrovideoarte.

An ex-convict in search of a new life is caught in the tangled web of love, hate, and intrigue.

Ritual ceremonies and daily life among the Yafar of the village of Hopwan Kbik, western Sepik in Papua New Guinea.

Electronically altered images of American patriotism.

For love, a young woman wants to leave her family and her country, which the other young man who loves her cannot understand.

Roger, a ciné enthusiast, enlists the support of fellow ciné-club members in the making of an amateur, sci-fi film. After inadvertently filming an actual alien spaceship, his group thinks he has upped his special effects budget and suspect nothing’s amiss. It won’t be long before Roger is paid another visit by the little green men, but will this be the end or will there be a sequel?