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Mundial 78

Mundial 78

1978 • 20 min • Argentina
MUNDIAL 78 is a humorous depiction of the controversial 1978 football World Cup that took place during the Argentinian dictatorship
She Had Her Gun All Ready

She Had Her Gun All Ready

1978 • 27 min • United States of America
Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island.
How Bugs Bunny Won the West

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

1978 • 23 min • United States of America
How Bugs Bunny Won the West is a Looney Tunes special that was released in 1978. This special was narrated by Denver Pyle. The special is available as a bonus feature on The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD set. It had a running time of 30 min.
Learning to Walk

Learning to Walk

1978 • 8 min • Yugoslavia
This is the story of Svojislav who was accustomed to walking the way he was taught by his mother. However his four friends each try to teach him their style of walking convinced that theirs is the best way. Svojislav has a hard time getting away from his "redeemers" but having done so, he continues walking the way he always has.
Pepe Donoso

Pepe Donoso

1978 • 44 min • Chile
From different conversations with relatives, writers and people close to José Donoso, the imaginary is constructed about the life, work and influences of the writer, to later follow his journey through the city by car while he remembers places, situations of his youth and evocations of his childhood.
Carmina Burana

Carmina Burana

1978 • 60 min • Germany
A very visual and profound dramatization of the various sections of Carmina Burana, a symphonic piece composed by Carl Orff about medieval poetry by an anonymous author.
Ikkyu-san and the Mischievous Princess

Ikkyu-san and the Mischievous Princess

1978 • 15 min • Japan
Ikkyuu must talk a tomboy into behaving in a more lady-like manner before her habit of calling herself by the boy's name Tsuyumaru and attacking shogun Yoshimitsu Ashikaga with a wooden sword gets her into trouble.
Жирафа и очки

Жирафа и очки

1978 • 8 min • Russia
Cher... Special

Cher... Special

1978 • 60 min • United States of America
Cher... Special is a television special starring American singer/actress Cher and featuring guest stars Dolly Parton and Rod Stewart. The show was broadcast on ABC on April 3, 1978 and was a ratings success for ABC, ranking among the Top 10 most watched programs of the week. The Special is best remembered for its first number where over fifteen minutes, Cher sings and dances to a medley of songs from the musical West Side Story, playing both male and female characters. In the fall of 1978, it was honored with a technical Emmy Award for "Best Achievement in Lighting Direction". It also received an Emmy nomination for "Best Art Direction for a Comedy-Variety or Musical Special" and Dolly Parton was also nominated for an Emmy in the category of "Best Supporting Actress in a Variety or Musical Special".
Divide and Rule - Never!

Divide and Rule - Never!

1978 • 41 min • United Kingdom
This punk-infused documentary by the Newsreel Collective invites young working class Londoners to discuss their experiences of racism. First and second generation Black and Asian immigrants, as well as ex-National Front members, paint a detailed picture of discrimination in 1970s Britain. The film uses lo-fi animation, archive footage and a pulsating soundtrack to compare racial inequality in London to Britain's colonial 'divide and rule' policy, European fascism and the rise of Nazi Germany.
Love Through a Window

Love Through a Window

1978 • 39 min • Sweden
Ilse Siedel lives her life in a wheelchair. Through her window she follows what is happening outside. In her imagination she deals with how to conquer some love for herself.
Trouble

Trouble

1978 • 16 min • Soviet Union
An evil sorceress named Trouble is trying to bring trouble to the hare, but other animals together help the hare to cope with the trouble.
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook

Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook

1978 • 6 min • United Kingdom
A BAFTA award winning short tribute to the artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), which explores a small number of the thousands of drawings he is reputed to have produced during his lifetime
Better Safe Than Sorry

Better Safe Than Sorry

1978 • 15 min • United States of America
Deals with the difficult subject of stranger awareness by speaking directly and frankly to children between nine and fourteen years of age. Program stresses the use of good judgment as different situations are presented.
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood

Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood

1978 • 51 min • United Kingdom
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, also known as Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, is a documentary film produced by BBC in 1978 on the subject of Hunter S. Thompson, directed by Nigel Finch. The road trip/film pairs Thompson with Finch's fellow Briton the illustrator Ralph Steadman. The party travel to Hollywood via Death Valley and Barstow from Las Vegas, scene of the pair's 1971 collaboration. It contains interviews with Thompson and Steadman, as well as some short excerpts from some of his work.
Desfile Castellana Hilton Final con Will More

Desfile Castellana Hilton Final con Will More

1978 • 16 min
Recovered Zulueta short.
Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert

Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert

1978 • 56 min • Germany
Karajan had been appointed music director for life of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1955, and soon the orchestra mastered the entire palette of Karajan's subtly defined phrasings, moods and orchestral colors. At home in the majesty of Bruckner or the raw power of Beethoven, the orchestra was also able to "let go" with Suppé or a Lisztian Hungarian Rhapsody, as the recording illustrates. For the 1978 New Year's Eve concert with the Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan put together a program of exclusively popular classical works, pieces that would guarantee a bubbly good time. Following Verdi's Overture to "La forza del destino" are the two major works of the program, Bizet's Arlésienne Suite No. 2 and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. The Hungarian March, or "Rákóczy March," from Berlioz's "La damnation de Faust" never fails to rouse listeners with its instrumentation. The program closes with the Intermezzo from Mascagni's "L'amico Fritz" and the popular Overture to "Leichte Kavallerie" by Suppé.
Wolters Trude

Wolters Trude

1978 • 30 min • East Germany, Germany
A portrait of a 74-year-old woman who lives in modest circumstances in a village in Brandenburg and tells her story on camera: born in 1904 in Rastenburg (East Prussia), Wolters Trude moves to Berlin at an early age with her parents and five siblings. At the age of nine, after the death of her mother, she was placed in an orphanage. In 1918, at the age of 14, she was placed with a family, working in their restaurant. She married in 1929; her husband turned out to be an alcoholic; she had eight children, six of whom survived, and whom she raised practically on her own.
The Art of Film: Vintage Hitchcock

The Art of Film: Vintage Hitchcock

1978 • 29 min
Documentary about the early British films by director Alfred Hitchcock.
Alice in Wonderland: A Lesson in Appreciating Differences

Alice in Wonderland: A Lesson in Appreciating Differences

1978 • 9 min • United States of America
The film stresses appreciating others for their differences is an important quality in mature young people.
The Making of a President

The Making of a President

1978 • 60 min
In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at the town’s upcoming ecumenical war bonds rally. However, the president has just quit and nobody wants the thankless job. A funny and endearing drama featuring Melvyn Douglas, Nehemiah Persoff, Paul Soles and a 15-year-old Mike Myers. Based on a semi-autobiographical short story by Order of Canada winner Morley Torgov. Collie-haired Myers, in one of his first TV roles, is more behaved than usual as a skateboard-riding young piano prodigy. Hollywood veteran Douglas does most of the heavy lifting as a Jewish elder trying the impossible — recruiting a new president who can, in Torgov’s words, handle himself “among the goyim” at an upcoming town war bond rally. The town’s new tailor (Soles) — thought of as a bit of a peacock — is seen as the perfect candidate. (CBC TV-Movie 1978)
How the Cossacks Became Olympians

How the Cossacks Became Olympians

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union
The Cossacks become involved in a dispute between the gods Zeus and Mars. Zeus wants to set up the Olympic games, while Mars wants to undermine him and start more wars. The Kozaks help Zeus and challenge Mars at the Games.
Rich Little's Christmas Carol

Rich Little's Christmas Carol

1978 • 55 min • United States of America
In this one-man show starring Rich Little, Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, and it's up to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future to convince him otherwise.
From the Roots Came the Rapper

From the Roots Came the Rapper

1978 • 30 min
Kevin is a daydreamer obsessed with the rock and roll lifestyle of 50s America. Unfortunately for Kevin, he lives in 70s Stockport. Will his ambition to become a DJ like his American idols come to fruition?