All Films

Alô Tetéia

1978 • 10 min

In a humorous way, the film narrates the adventures - or misadventures - of a typical girl from the south of Rio de Janeiro who decides to go to the beach, but her car won't start. Having decided, she goes on the bus and gets into a thousand messes.

Towards the Salt Cellar

1978 • 6 min • Hungary

The Hungarian family make their best to entertain the German exchange-student with traditional Hungarian dishes. The rather insignificant head of the family tries to reach for the salt cellar but can't do it, while his family keeps on chatting and eating without noticing that someone has gone missing from the table.

...And Plays Tricks

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A tiny green bear (the Trickster) tries his best to impress a group of animals with his annoying tricks.

Chari Gets Married

1978 • 16 min • Spain

A filmed gipsy wedding.

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

1978 • 27 min

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor tells the inspiring true story of history's first successful human-powered flight. Renowned inventor Dr. Paul MacCready and his team were filmed creating the world-famous pedal-powered airplane as it happened. Producing this film, which documents the development of a man's dream into a scientific and historic achievement was, in itself, an extraordinary effort. There was an immense risk involved in making a commitment to film a scientist's effort at achieving something which had never done before successfully. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Spain: The Land and the Legend

1978 • 26 min • United States of America

This film conveys a sense of the forces that have shaped Spain over the centuries, including Roman, Islamic, and Catholic influences, and gives James Michener's analysis of the history, art, folklore, and architecture of the country.

Canada Vignettes: Port Royal

1978 • 1 min • Canada

This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an island in the Bay of Fundy. Despite overwhelming hardships the survivors, joined by other new colonists, eventually established Port Royal, the foundation of Acadia and the Acadian people.

When Do the Storks Arrive

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The owner left a scarecrow in the field. Autumn came, the birds moved south, and the scarecrow got tired of hanging idly on a pole. He asked the donkey to help him get down. At this time, a flock of storks was getting ready for the road. It became clear that one stork could not fly, it was wounded by hunters. The scarecrow volunteered to take care of the sick stork all winter…

Visions of a City

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

Sepia toning lends a romantic (even wistful) quality to Larry Jordan's film Visions of a City, which he shot in San Francisco in 1957 and edited in 1978. The pace is un-irritating, in contrast to the San Francisco of today; but unlike the equal weight Helen Levill gives to all her subjects, there is an internal evolutionary development in the Jordan film that ultimately delivers a story. Until the introduction of the human protagonist, poet Michael McClure, we are treated to an extravagant display of visual delights.

Lautaro

1978 • 19 min • East Germany

The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade their country, the indigenous people think that they are aliens. The Spaniards capture and enslave many of the Mapuche tribe. Lautaro, a young captured native, realizes that these aliens are human beings without any divine power. He learns to use their weapons and organizes a resistance movement against the intruders.

Captain of Koppeniki

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

628-e8

1978 • 30 min • United Kingdom

In 1906 French painter Bonnard illustrated a romantic, comical journal written by his friend Mirbeau. It's the story of one of the earliest motor car trips through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.

Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous

1978 • 51 min

Thin Lizzy in concert during their "Live and Dangerous" tour of 1976 in London.

The Contraption

1978 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A man toils at building an elaborate contraption. But to what end?

Legends of Peruvian Indians

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union

The film is based myths of the ancient Peruvians, recreated Soviet ethnographers Yuri Beryozkin on drawings Indians Mochica. The action takes place 1,500 years ago. Legend tells of two brothers, demigods, brought the sacred frog. Growing up, the brothers went to the human world, giving them a lot of happiness and a refuge from the evil monsters. But one of the monsters Rikuay survived the battle with his brothers. He deceived his younger brother, went to his centipede, which led him to ally Rica - a witch, who asked his younger brother to give people a weapon that start killing people. Only the intervention of the gods, and his older brother saved people from total destruction

Utlänningar: Del II - Le Rom

1978 • 44 min • Sweden

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

The Lady Irene

1978 • 30 min

A fisherman is about to launch his new trawler and wants to make it an occasion for his girlfriend to remember.

Rescue Party

1978 • 25 min

Presents a story about a spaceship from the Galactic Federation which is given a mission to rescue the inhabitants of Earth before the Sun explodes.

Kay

1978 • 25 min

Domestic drama by Alma Cullen

Trompete, Glocke, letzte Briefe

1978 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

Red Berlin from the 1910s to the resistance against National Socialism comes to life as a proletarian family history. The siblings of Ernst Knaack, a communist who was executed in 1944, talk about their childhood and youth, which they spent with their grandparents. Their grandfather, a former sailor who took part in the November Revolution and was a member of the Workers' and Soldiers' Council, ran the Zum Kuli pub in Prenzlauer Berg—a workers' pub that was also frequented by the unemployed and homeless, where party meetings were held and leading KPD members such as August Bebel and Hermann Duncker were regulars.

Mother, Father, Child

1978 • 30 min • Sweden

During an afternoon and evening, we follow a family's everyday life. From the child's perspective, we see how the bizarre the world can seem sometimes.

Pretend You're Wearing a Barrel

1978 • 10 min • Canada

Lynn Ryan, 35, is a tough-minded single mother of five. After help from employment counsellors and a course in welding, she got off welfare for a good job as an apprentice engineer in a Vancouver shipyard.

Haircut

1978 • 5 min • United States of America

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

The Sea Can Kill

1978 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Royal Navy short about surviving a disaster at sea.