All Films

Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue

1978 • 60 min • United States of America

A live-action/animated television special produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Maidens

1978 • 28 min • Australia

Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical narration and emotive music to trace the filmmaking journey of one feminist (the filmmaker herself). Almost four years in the making, Maidens picked up local and international short film awards and became compulsory viewing in women and film courses around the country -- where it sparked much impassioned debate. It remains essential viewing for an enhanced understanding of the moment of awakened consciousness that characterised 1970s feminism.

Notes for Jerome

1978 • 45 min

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Sitney. The footage of this film comes from those two visits. Later, after Jerome died, Mekas visited his Cassis home in 1974. Footage of that visit constitutes the epilogue of the film. Other people appear in the film, all friends of Jerome.

Tooth Brushing

1978 • 5 min • United States of America

Charlie Brown leaves his appointment with his dentist armed with an instructional pamphlet on proper tooth brushing technique. He endeavors to practice toothbrushing with Linus and his dog Snoopy.

The Small One

1978 • 26 min • United States of America

Ordered by his father to sell an old mule called Small One, a Hebrew boy in the ancient Holy Land takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph, who buys Small One and uses the steed to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.

Escapade

1978 • 50 min • United States of America

Two U.S. Secret Service agents are lured on a bizarre search for their rookie partner who has mysteriously disappeared.Two secret agents set out in search of a missing comrade.

Below the Lion Rock: Choice Of Dreams

1978 • 46 min

Several women from Taiwan came to Hong Kong in search of their dreams. Blessed with a beautiful voice, Lin Mei-Yun (Lam Kin-Ming) dreamt of making the leap from lounge singer to pop star.

Xenogenesis

1978 • 12 min • United States of America

A woman and an engineered man are sent in a gigantic sentient starship to search space for a place to start a new life cycle. Raj decides to take a look around the ship. He comes across a gigantic robotic cleaner. Combat ensues.

A Walk Through H

1978 • 41 min • United Kingdom

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.

The Devil and Daniel Mouse

1978 • 25 min • Canada

When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, her boyfriend has to help her avoid damnation.

The Stingiest Man in Town

1978 • 50 min • Japan, United States of America

This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.

Pøbel

1978 • 51 min • Norway

The criminal Tom goes in and out of jail and feels he is getting destructive, where he can't distinguish between love and violence, endearment and toughness nor self realization and self destruction.

The Spectre's Bride

1978 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

A dead soldier comes for his fiancée from the grave.

Sea of Wonders

1978 • 54 min • Japan

A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls in love with her.

Rikedom

1978 • 28 min • Sweden

Johan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ...

Christmas Morning

1978 • 7 min • Ireland

Directed by Tiernan MacBride, this short film – nominated for a Palme d’Or in 1978 for Best Short Film – is a visual representation of the Irish folk song Arthur McBride and The Sergeant, played and sung by Irish singer Paul Brady. The lyrics tell the story of Arthur McBride (Paul Bennett) and his cousin (Paul Wilson) who fight off a recruiting sergeant (Godfrey Quigley) when he tries to enlist them in the British army.

Manimals

1978 • 29 min • United States of America

A highly unusual look into the world of exotic pets and their owners in a large city. It is a film of love, comedy, ego and tragedy. The film begins on a humorous note, as the viewer is swept along, enjoying the fun of seeing and listening to people who keep monkeys, ocelots, lion cubs, possums, tarantulas, and every kind of exotic pet imaginable. Along with the careful, concerned people we meet, we also see some who are not quite so responsible. We witness the effects of some of the owners' neglect and lack of sensitivity to the needs of these animals from the wild. Some owners also describe their pets as exhibiting almost human traits, but is it good for animals to lose their own traits and characteristics, and acquire those of human beings?

Captain Future: The Great Race in the Solar System

1978 • 55 min • Germany, France, Japan

Captain Future and friends compete in a galactic race and end up defending themselves against aggressive competitors and evil villains out to destroy them.

Pink Press

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

As a Dailey Blabbermouth reporter, the Pink Panther tries to get past the security man and guard dog at Howard Huge's mansion.

Serial Rapist

1978 • 60 min • Japan

A chubby, bicycle-riding rapist/killer dispatches 13 people in a cold, bloody, detached rampage.

Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie

1978 • 21 min • Japan

The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.

Fan

1978 • 6 min

16mm experimental film of a desk fan.

Hanging Around

1978 • 30 min

How do you kill time when you're 15 years old, have no money and live in a dull London suburb? Rod, Kip and Mul may be short of cash, but not ideas.

Pink Trumpet

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

Staying in a motel, the Pink Panther decides to practice his trumpet playing, while annoying the man next door in the motel.