All Films

The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches

1979 • 15 min • United States of America

Wendy the witch has low self-esteem. She doesn’t believe she has any witch power until she makes a new friend who convinces her try something new.

Pink Lady's Spring Holidays

1979 • 24 min • Japan

Short movie featuring Pink Lady

Quattro Delitti: Professione Farabutto

1979 • 60 min

Mario has just been released from prison for a crime he never acknowledged having committed. Back home, he once again crosses paths with the former friend who betrayed him. Tensions are high, tragedy is on the way.

Fogo, Fire Island

1979 • 32 min • Cape Verde

Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without tutelage.

Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion

1979 • 1 min • Canada

A visual interpretation of the poem "Riverdale Lion" by Canadian poet and essayist John Robert Colombo.

Canada Vignettes: Dance

1979 • 2 min • Canada

The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm of a dance.

Q'eros: The Shape of Survival

1979 • 50 min • United States of America

Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.

Uncle Au

1979 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Soviet puppet cartoon trilogy basis on a fairytale story by Finnish writer Hannu Mäkelä.

Starzinger: The Nightmare of Energy

1979 • 24 min

I’m Looking at Your Photo

1979 • 9 min • Poland

A documentary film composed of private photographs taken from prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The authors use them to build a story, full of carelessness but also growing tension, about the end of the 1930s, the last days before the outbreak of war.

Pavane For A Missing Play

1979 • 36 min

Foreman spent the early months of 1979 rehearsing a play called Madness and Tranquility (My Head Was a Sledgehammer), which he abruptly cancelled very shortly before its scheduled opening. Film critic and longtime CalArts professor Berenice Reynaud documented those rehearsals and used the footage in this rarely screened essay film, which had long been considered lost. Miraculously, Anthology has recently rediscovered the original 16mm elements and has digitally restored the film for this occasion. A truly exciting find that presents the only known footage of an important, albeit lost, Foreman work.

Roger of the Raj

1979 • 30 min

On the eve of the Great War Roger Bartlesham's aristocratic parents are firm believers in the Empire though Roger, encouraged by socialist Latin teacher Mr Hopper,dreams of equality and opening a tea shop with his sweet-heart Miranda. After a sojourn in India where various officers shoot themselves to atone for breaches in etiquette Roger gets caught up in Hopper's attempt to bring the Russian revolution to England but is rescued from the chaos by Miranda in time for them to pursue their dream.

Leeds Castle

1979 • 5 min

Fashions and pageantry put fabrics to the fore in this COI cinemagazine story filmed at Leeds Castle in Kent.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kōya Hijiri

1979 • 45 min • Japan

While on a pilgrimage, young monk Sōchō sees a waterfall turn blood-red, a sight villagers fear is the curse of a woman who drowned herself years ago. Ignoring their warnings, he ventures into the haunted Tenbu Pass to find a missing medicine seller. There, he encounters a stunning woman in a remote house, but anyone who touches her is transformed into an animal…

You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown

1979 • 23 min • United States of America

Charlie Brown, Marcie and Snoopy compete in the Junior Olympics' decathlon event.

A Very Blue Beard

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A detective investigates the crimes of a medieval duke: is he really guilty of the deaths of his wives?

Geburtstag

1979 • 8 min

Line animation of a birthday.

Tale of Tales

1979 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.

Girl and Dolphin

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film is a poetic sketch cartoon about the friendship of a girl and a dolphin.

The Small Unit

1979 • 53 min • Albania

Based on the true story of the Vig heroes, about 5 soldier friends who get executed by the Nazis in the north of Albania.

What a Day!

1979 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

Zoran leads a quiet family life with his wife, a primary school teacher Ana, their son, and Ana’s brother. Zoran works as a clerk and has a great desire to attend a symposium in Dubrovnik, but the manager will not sign the travel order.

Canada Vignettes: The Egg

1979 • 1 min • Canada

An egg desperately tries to prevent being hatched. In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, learn how societies in evolution are often in danger of self-destruction.

The Emmett Smith Story

1979 • 23 min

Emmett Smith, a competitive runner and high school track coach at Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona, is left without a sense of balance after a brain tumor is removed. He is told that he will never run again, but undaunted, he sets and meets a goal of not only regaining the ability to run, but to run 20 consecutive miles before a year has elapsed. Wheelchair-bound Cindy Duncan's determination gets her admitted to Apollo High School in Glendale, Arizona after she demonstrates that she will not need special attention. Coach Smith (now at Apollo) challenges her to meet the goal of recovering from her injuries (from being hit by a car) to the extent of being able to walk to the podium at graduation to receive her diploma. He bets that she can do it, and will have to wheel himself in her wheelchair the entire three miles to Cortez H.S. if she succeeds.

Stanley Baxter on Television

1979 • 50 min • United Kingdom

We hear from the Minister of White Papers about how Stanley Baxter is to return, then we hear how Miss Porker wants her own show, we learn about sex and violence on the television, we have an episode of Mastermind with Magnus Magnusson, The Channing Report presents Sir John Gielgud and The Generation Game, Charmaine Globb presents an episode of Probe about 'Mimicry, a Cry for Help, there's the story of an actress behind television advertisements, an ad for the TV Times, a programme that appeals to sports lovers and movie lovers, Botanic Man, and the finale is the George Burns Show.