All Films

Tie Up a Married Woman!

1979 • 60 min

BDSM-themed pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Banjo the Woodpile Cat

1979 • 26 min • United States of America

Banjo is a curious and rebellious kitten who is always getting into trouble. When he decides to jump off a roof of a chicken coop to see if he can land on his feet, he is ordered to "fetch a switch". Thinking his parents wouldn't care if he gets hurt, he hitches a ride on a feed truck, all the way to Salt Lake City. After he finds the excitement of the city, he soon finds it cold and lonely and wishes to be home. With the help of stray cat Crazy Legs and a trio of singing cat girls, he finds the truck and returns home.

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

1979 • 29 min • United States of America

Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of Sesame Street. The special aired on individual PBS stations at various times between March and May 1979. (Muppet Wiki)

From the Earth to the Moon

1979 • 46 min • Australia

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979 • 50 min • United States of America

Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

1979 • 22 min • United States of America

A TV movie special that compiles of a few Looney Tunes episodes centered around an episode of a Christmas Carol, with the part of Scrooge played by Yosemite Sam.

The Plank

1979 • 28 min

Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. TV remake of the 1967 short.

The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea

1979 • 24 min • United States of America

When Popeye forgets to send Olive Oyl a valentine, she takes a Valentine's Day Sweetheart Cruise, convinced that she'll find her "Mr. Right" there.

The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree

1979 • 25 min • United States of America

Papa Bear and the cubs search the woods for the perfect Christmas tree, but run afoul of the woodland animals who live in the trees they aim to cut down.

A Christmas for Boomer

1979 • 48 min • United States of America

A sacked maid and butler kidnap a pampered dog and want $20,000 ransom from the rich owner, Lila Manchester. A shaggy dog named Boomer helps save it and becomes a member of the family who originally found him.

Matriculation

1979 • 16 min • Poland

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustrates the theatre of social life in Soviet Poland where one says different things on the stage and another behind the scenes.

Beane's of Boston

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

To keep from being fired by his father, Franklin Beane has a bright idea for a theme week for the Mens and Ladies Wear department of Beane's of Boston department store. Pilot episode for a US remake of "Are You Being Served?"

Shadow of Fear

1979 • 60 min

A boy turns to his pets after his father dies, and on a visit to his great-uncle in the Amish country, he learns their legends and superstitions. He soon discovers he has the power to make mind contact with the animals.

Rockpile: Born Fighters

1979 • 30 min

This documentary follows the recording process, circa 1978-1979, of Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds & Rockpile. It gives great insight into the process of recording and "getting" the right sound for radio. If you've never had any studio experience before, this video will give you that fly on the wall experience. Cameos by Graham Parker, Albert Lee and Huey Lewis.

Crossfire

1979 • 56 min • United States of America

Shelly, a young American girl, is attracted to two men for their idealism. One is a missionary, out to change the world through the power of God's word. The other is a terrorist, who plans to change the world through bombs.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Ōshū Adachigahara

1979 • 45 min • Japan

Fleeing the Ōnin War, Tomone and her daughter Shiori are saved by Ukyō Fujiki. While taking shelter in a house, they are attacked by a greedy servant, Shichibee, but Shiori defends her mother, injuring him. A year later, Tomone and Ukyō reunite and fall in love, but Shichibee, now a bandit leader, returns and brutally murders Tomone and Shiori in Ukyō’s absence.

The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1979

1979 • 50 min

For the 1979 broadcast, Cash's annual CBS Christmas special returns to Nashville after taping the previous year's program in Los Angeles. This time he features his father, Ray Cash, and older brother Roy Cash in a visit to the small home in Dyess, Arkansas, where Johnny and his siblings were raised. Guests include Canadian pop and country star Anne Murray ("You Needed Me"), who was enjoying the most successful period of her career, and country music's Tom T. Hall, whom Cash introduces as "my very favorite songwriter" before Cash and Hall launch into a medley of Hall's hits "Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine," "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died," "I Love" and "Country Is." The show's comic foil is the late Andy Kaufman, who appears as his character Latka Gravas from the hit network show Taxi.

The Grudge and the Cat

1979 • 54 min • Japan

A wife murdered by her husband borrows the forms of her supposedly dead sister and a cat and takes revenge.

Sweet Dreams

1979 • 14 min • United States of America

Often called “the pioneer of lesbian gaze,” iconic San Francisco photographer Honey Lee Cottrell was a student at San Francisco State University when she made this lustful, elliptical exploration of female fantasy and self-love.

Stanley

1979 • 3 min • Israel, United Kingdom

A male cat, with prominent testicles, approaches a sleeping woman and begins pawing and licking at her. The woman awakes and, smiling, allows the cat to dive between her breasts as though her cleavage was a body of water.

Starstruck

1979 • 26 min • United States of America

The story, set in the twenty-second century, follows the adventures of the McCallister family, owners of McCallister's Midway Inn, a hotel-restaurant-saloon on an orbiting way station somewhere between Earth and Pluto.

Steppin' Out

1979 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Short documentary film on the fashionable nightclubs and the trendy pop culture scenes that were famous in London on the late 70's. Released as a support feature to the first Alien (1979) movie.

Goodbye, Ophelia

1979 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

An animated lecture that gives young girls life advice when it comes to male conquerors and the like. Czech animated film for adults.

Scooby Goes Hollywood

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

Shaggy and Scooby-Doo quit their Saturday morning TV series in pursuit of Hollywood stardom.