All Films

Canada Vignettes: Trading Post

1978 • 1 min • Canada

An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.

Pat Boone and Family: A Thanksgiving Special

1978 • 60 min

Beloved singer-actor Pat Boone, his daughter Debby and the entire Boone family enjoy the holiday at home with music and fun, including a visit from old friend Bob Hope, comic John Byner and the humorous Hudson Brothers. The Boone girls sing Bless This House.

Journey to the Garden of the Dead

1978 • 60 min • France

Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but since she is not, he wishes that she was dead.

School Sounds

1978 • 30 min

Set in a Japanese university in the late '70s, the film discusses the absurdity of cafeteria prices, the struggle over the old clock tower, and more.

Tarzana

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

A private detective takes on a strange case.

Race for Survival

1978 • 49 min • United States of America

When a game warden crashes in East Africa, his greyhound goes for help, only to find unexpected assistance from an aging lion.

A Child's Voice

1978 • 29 min • Ireland

A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show.

Pink S.W.A.T.

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther attempts to get rid of a fly in his home.

The Rain

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In one of the Russian cities, where local tailors have long sold their fabrics and clothes from it on the market, there were overseas merchants who arrived on an expensive and beautiful boat. Quite quickly, they settled in the shopping aisles and began to attract customers and lure them with their goods.

Canada Vignettes: Faces

1978 • 1 min • Canada

Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.

Women Metalworkers

1978 • 17 min • Brazil

In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful and abusive automotive industry. Documenting striking women metal workers, Olga Futemma and Renato Tapajós’ Trabalhadoras Metalúrgicas is a particularly vigorous work among the films produced during this moment in São Paulo worker history. Scenes filmed during the first Congress of Metallurgical Women of São Bernardo and Diadema in 1978 are intercut with images documenting the appalling working conditions against which the women featured in the congress were striking.

The Lake

1978 • 33 min • United Kingdom

A young couple go for a picnic beside a lake in the grounds of an empty house. Three years before, the owner had murdered all his family, killed his animals and disappeared.

The Forbidden

1978 • 36 min • United Kingdom

An early experimental short film based on Faust.

Amahl and the Night Visitors

1978 • 51 min

One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

1978 • 48 min • United States of America

Leslie Uggams hosts this take on A Christmas Carol, where she and fellow guest stars, Anne Murray, Imogene Coca, and Dick Smothers try to get Oscar to stop being such a Grouch on Christmas.

Trio A

1978 • 10 min

First performed in 1966, Trio A consists of an approximately five-minute sequence of discrete movements that, with the exception of walking, are never repeated. Although it appears effortless, the dance is painstaking to learn in its precise articulation of the body.

Video 50

1978 • 51 min • Switzerland, Germany

Produced in an era before 24-hour programming cycles, Video 50 was initially used as a late night filler on TV stations in Germany, France, Belgium, and Switzerland. Random, surreal, and unexpected, Video 50 resembles the dream cycle of a dormant TV station after it conscious programming has ceased. Its structure and form anticipate the dissociated sequence of moving images we are now accustomed to encountering on YouTube and social media.

The Father of Loneliness

1978 • 58 min • Yugoslavia

It is a sentimental story about the father-son relationship, reminiscent of a photo from an old family album, over which one feels some sort of deep nostalgia. The focus of the plot is a poetic story about a father who lives in the village and his son who visits him regularly.

Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf

1978 • 1 min • Canada

The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.

Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Great Santa Claus Caper

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

When inventor/efficiency expert Alexander Graham Wolf plots to take over Santa's workshop, Comet asks for help from Raggedy Ann, Andy and their dog, Raggedy Arthur.

Pinkologist

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

The Little Man visits a psychiatrist, having been driven to insanity by the Pink Panther.

The Little Brown Burro

1978 • 23 min

A sad little burro who feels that no one wants him and that he doesn't belong anywhere finds out differently when he is bought by Joseph to transport Mary on their travel to Jerusalem for the birth of Jesus.

The Things We Did Last Summer

1978 • 42 min

This episodic comedy features the original cast of Saturday Night Live as they present individual skits that describe their summer vacations. Among the highlights is a concert segment featuring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the Blues Brothers.

Vinterdag 1914

1978 • 38 min • Sweden

A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.