All Films

The Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939

1979 • 30 min • Canada

In the fall of 1939, more than 600 fishermen and fish handlers in the tiny town of Lockeport, Nova Scotia walked the picket line in front of the town's only employers, Swim Brothers and the Lockeport Company. Both fishplants had locked their doors rather than recognize the Canadian Fishermen's Union as official bargaining agent. For eight weeks, as autumn turned to winter, the men, with their wives and families, held firm. It was a bread-and-butter struggle that made national headlines--one of the first major attempts by Nova Scotia fishermen and fishhandlers to win union recognition, and one of the first major tests of the N.S. Trade Union Act, passed in 1937.

Kabaret Ivo de Wijs: Formule 2

1979 • 38 min • Netherlands

A shortened recording of the theater program of the same name by Kabaret Ivo de Wijs (Ivo de Wijs, Pieter Nieuwint and Marnix Kappers).

Around About

1979 • 5 min • Italy

A free form film poem. Moving through inside and outside spaces Luisa Cividin unties a knot made with two curtains. Followed by Roberto Taroni smoking until he starts to turn around his axis, first in front of the window with the now re-tied curtains and then in slow motion seemingly in front of some stairs. A 70s enigma. – Olaf Möller

100 m selili kammerorkestri saatel

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Ulvi Indrikson trains her daughters Kaire and Kaja and supports them at the competitions. Training in the gym and swimming competitions. Support by the audience, the participants' intense fight for the first place.

The Elvis Cover Up

1979 • 55 min

in 1979, Geraldo Rivera anchored an hour-long program for ABC's 20/20 titled "The Elvis Cover-Up," which established that Elvis was dependent on prescription medication. Here is the complete broadcast (with a couple of Elvis performances deleted for legal reasons) and subsequent updates.

Casa da Flor

1979 • 9 min • Brazil

Using the strangest objects collected from the trash, Mr. Gabriel dos Santos built his house in São Pedro D'Aldeia, on the north coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The film shows the interior and exterior of the house and reveals the simplicity and ingenuity of its builder.

Death in the Family

1979 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

Craypot Sonata

1979 • 10 min • Australia

Australian horror short from 1979.

The Story of a Strange Friendship

1979 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Chicken and Fox's parents were against their children's friendship. But the kids managed to defend their friendship.

Sounds from Our People: Old Crow

1979 • 29 min • Canada

The village of Old Crow and the people from the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation are located on the banks of the Porcupine River 80 miles inside the Arctic Circle. The film shows the lifestyles and spirit of the people of Old Crow, reflected in the writings of Gwich'in Edith Josie and the stories told by Elder Kenneth Nukon. Alanis Obomsawin wanted to document life in the community before the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipe line was to go through. "Everything will be changed -- it will never be the same again".

New Town, Home Town

1979 • 58 min

Writer Colin Ward sets out to discover the truth about Britain’s New Towns. He visits Harlow, Letchworth, Peterlee, Runcorn and the youngest and biggest New Town, Milton Keynes, hearing from their architects and residents, and examining their reputation.

The Goalkeeper Chip

1979 • 40 min • Soviet Union

The story of how a boy became friends with a talking frog and what came of it.

Quién lo hace

1979 • 22 min • Argentina

This short film was filmed in 16 mm, in the city of Colón, between 1976 and 1979 and released in 1980. It narrates the turn that a man's life takes when he becomes the suspect of a crime. Isolated and under pressure, he begins to question his own identity and the boundaries between reality and paranoia. Thus, your mind becomes a battlefield.

Housewives and a Day

1979 • 22 min

A plan of a house that is reminiscent of a miniature garden used as a psychological treatment to assist in self-confirmation at a middle-class housewive’s tea party.

The Imp's Tricks

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story is about a kind little devil who defended an honest shepherd and punished the judge for his injustice.

Puss in Boots

1979 • 47 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, staged by the State Academic Central Puppet Theater under the direction of S.V. Obraztsov. The play’s production and opening speech are by S. Obraztsov.

When Men Sing

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Musical journey of a men's choir ensemble that gets transported to a magical land of dinosaurs, ice, water and nature after the bus taking them to a concert crashes. Puppet animation short.

Meeting

1979 • 43 min • Soviet Union

The author wanted to return to his characters, the grown—up children, whose naivety was so charming in the previous film, "Just Three Lessons", and trace the further path of these children in life, their different destinies.

A Single Heaven

1979 • 24 min • Soviet Union

The documentary is dedicated to G. P. Peters, the first and only person who joined aviation with a prosthetic leg.

A Magic Rainbow

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A boy and a girl play building sand castles. Suddenly, a bully came running, destroyed all the locks and took away the children's toys. The children couldn't resist the bully. Suddenly it starts to rain heavily with a thunderstorm, and after the rain a beautiful rainbow appears.

Public Control of Public Money

1979 • 12 min

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A documentary about people reclaiming control of investment funds through union organizing. The story of the Long-Shoreman's Union organizing to force pension fund investments to represent their interests, particularly to divest pension fund investments from South African companies to protest apartheid.

A Glancing Blow

1979 • 8 min

Using sharp glancing blows, it demonstrates how we are now able to effect an energy transference from one American gas guzzler to another.

P.s.

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The film is about alienation in human relationships. The man is looking at photographs, drinking and thinking about something. Then the woman walks into the woods, the man watches her.

Score

1979 • 4 min • Poland

Satirical animation showing the influence of alcohol brands on sports.