All Films

Do It With Joy

1979 • 27 min

British Columbia has a reforestation program to restock vast tracts of land stripped by logging companies. DO IT WITH JOY is about a unique community: a group of people from widely varying backgrounds who come together each spring to plant trees in the vast logged areas of northern British Columbia. For all of them, tree planting is a source of income, but more importantly it is a chance to share in the building of a self-sufficient community for the few months of the planting season.

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in the Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile

1979 • 30 min

Aunt Agatha threatens to call the police on innocent trick-or-treaters. Her nephew, Ralph, would love to be out with them. But what he wants most of all is a pumpkin. From across the street, Raggedy Ann and Andy watch the drama unfold. Andy is furious at Agatha for preventing the boy from enjoying the wonderful, horrible holiday. Ann, with her irritating insistence on fairness, decides that Agatha has merely forgotten what it's like to be young. The pressing matter ahead is getting Ralph a pumpkin. Andy scoffs at the idea of finding one at this late date. Ann reasons that if there's a little boy who needs a pumpkin, there must be a pumpkin who needs a little boy. She's right. Not far away, a miserable pumpkin is blubbering out pumpkin seed-tears because no one wants him for Halloween.

Bourbon Street Blues

1979 • 26 min • Germany

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical landlady, who wants to kick her out of her apartment.

Hela långa dagen

1979 • 47 min • Sweden

A single mother unable to find someone to look after her youngest son Tobben gets her older son Pingo to look after him for the day.

The Making of the Wizard of Oz

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, how it was made, and why it has endured.

The Reflecting Pool

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital piece; in it, Viola emerges as central protagonist from a thick forest into a clearing filled by an artificial pool. As the noise of an aeroplane slowly passes and fades overhead, Viola approaches the edge of the pool, whereby he removes his shoes, squats down yelling and then prepares to make a powerful jump.

Queen of the Blues

1979 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A seedy striptease club in London's West End becomes the target for unpleasant crooks.

Intô na onna: Otoko o sosoru

1979 • 60 min • Japan

Sibylle

1979 • 13 min • France

A movie collector buys a short film titled "Sibylle", showing a young woman, very beautiful, enigmatic, in the Funicular of Montmartre, in Paris. But this reel has something strange which will develop in a mysterious and disturbing way.

Franzmann

1979 • 47 min • Germany

Germany, 1937. Paul v. Kammer has lived with his grandfather in Germany for ten years. He has just finished school and faces a difficult decision: his mother, who is French, urges him to leave Germany and start university in France; his grandfather, on the other hand, demands that he enter into the family business, which would also mean conscription for Paul. Only one day left to make his decision. Paul meets his friend Max. A decisive day. Two friends and a girl in the summer of 1937.

Canada Vignettes: Instant French

1979 • 1 min • Canada

This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.

The Magic Ring

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Vanya has no money at all, and he gave away his last piece of clothing to save some poor animals. Now he has a cat, a dog, and a snake living in his house. But it turns out that the snake is the king's daughter, so she gave him a magic ring as a gift for saving her. Now Vanya can wish for anything he wants, and his wish will come true!

Gymnastics for the Tail

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Parrot teaches Elephant, Marmoset and Boa to do charging.

T.v.o.

1979 • 7 min • Venezuela

Television is one of the themes in T.V.O., which tells the story of a lonely woman’s interaction with the contraption. “The dog is no longer man’s best friend; now it’s television,” Castillo said in a conversation with the author of this article. The character is played by Mimí Lazo, one of the country’s most prominent actresses and a Venezuelan sex symbol. The film toys with this stereotype as regards the vicarious satisfaction given by romance and sex on screen. The other theme, linked to loneliness, is developmentalism: the main character lives in Parque Central, a middle-class housing complex whose residential buildings were finished in 1972 and became a symbol of well-being on the brink of the oil boom. (Pablo Gamba)

Almost a Movie!

1979 • 47 min

A young man meets up with his new stepmother, and his father is also supposed to join them for a holiday but never shows up. Suspicious of his step-mother, he then proceeds to keep her a prisoner in the villa as he forces her to reveal details of her hidden past.

Andy's Funhouse

1979 • 48 min • United States of America

This special was taped in 1977 but did not air until August 1979, on ABC. It featured most of Andy's famous gags, including Foreign Man/Latka and his Elvis Presley impersonation, as well as a host of unique segments (including a special appearance by children's television character Howdy Doody and the "Has-been Corner"). There also is a segment that included fake television screen static as part of the gag, which ABC executives were not comfortable with, fearing that viewers would mistake the static for broadcast problems and would change the channel—which was the comic element Kaufman wanted to present. Andy's Funhouse was written by Kaufman, Zmuda, and Mel Sherer, with music by Kaufman.

Autobahn

1979 • 12 min • United Kingdom

An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be a groundbreaking combination of electronic and manual animation. One of the first films produced specifically for video disk.

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1979 • 6 min • United States of America

The first film of mine which is so very much there where it's at THAT it deserves visual symbol as title and no further explanation from me at/et? all.

The Albion Band

1979 • 44 min

A rare 1979 BBC Arena documentary on the Albion Band, Ashley Hutchings and the development of English folk rock up to that time.

Big Jim and the Figaro Club

1979 • 30 min

In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on the buildings - only to find a seething passion gripping the Figaro Club.

Father's Day

1979 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Teenager Philip has a day out with his father, whom he has not seen since he was two years old. His mother is not keen to hand her son over to the man who deserted them.

Vampires

1979 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Three boys watch horror films on late night TV and let their imaginations run wild seeing a man in a local cemetery who they believe to be a vampire.

Track Stars.: The Unseen Heroes of Movie Sound

1979 • 8 min • Canada

Two Foley artists provide live sound effects to an action scene.

Black Island

1979 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Joe and Michael, 13-year-old Brits, become separated from their class outing, stranded on a small island, and captured by armed men.