All Films

Badye, the Storyteller

1977 • 22 min

A Nigerian traditionalist who draws his inspiration from bird warbling to compose music to accompany his verse chronicles.

Vivendo os Tombos: Carvoeiros

1977 • 10 min • Brazil

Documentary about the extraction and manufacture of charcoal, in Pompeu, Minas Gerais, focusing on charcoal burners in action, their lives, difficulties, relationships with bosses and the work carried out in a medieval process.

With a Fine Feeling for Steam

1977 • 25 min

This programme tells the story of the private steam railway company the Strathspey Railway, which was engineered and run by a group of rail enthusiasts in Scotland.Through the use of restored locomotives the company was started purely to preserve steam passenger trains, as their fading presence across British rail networks, due to the introduction of diesel engines, was keenly felt among steam enthusiasts.

Berlin (Disco-Film 18)

1977 • 6 min • East Germany

East Berlin disco movie.

Džokonda ketvirtame aukšte

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A shopper walks through what was then the largest department store in Lithuania - VCUP (Vilnius Central Department Store) and asks the sales staff to smile.

3 Minute Scream

1977 • 3 min

This almost three-minute film, the approximate length of a Super 8 film cartridge, is filled entirely with Birch's energetic screaming

We Draw October

1977 • 8 min • Soviet Union, East Germany

A joint production by animators of the USSR and the GDR based on children's drawings from the time of the Revolution and drawings by children of the 1970s.

The ABC of Sex: How’s That

1977 • 17 min • Poland

Addresses the problem of sexual awareness of children. It draws attention to erroneous methods of awareness used by parents, often stemming from lack of knowledge or false perceptions.

Eddy

1977 • 10 min • Canada

A documentary about Eddy, a Toronto garbage man who can't speak.

Operation Gamescan 76

1977 • 57 min • Canada

This short documentary profiles the Canadian military’s organization, logistical, and security operations at the XXI Olympiad held in 1976 in Montréal. The scale of the operation was large: 16,000 troops were mobilized to provide protection for 7,500 athletes, countless VIPs, and the general public on 138 sites located in Montreal, Bromont, and Kingston. This film offers a behind-the-scenes look at the planning and synchronization necessary to mount a successful international event of massive proportions.

The Refuge of the Accursed

1977 • 30 min

A deadly duel between the dark Count Dracula and Frankenstein's monster.

O Peixinho Vermelho

1977 • 42 min • Portugal

A film by António Drago.

Zaļā pasaka

1977 • 14 min • Soviet Union

An animation film based on a story by Imants Ziedonis about the relationship between a human and nature.

One Saturday Morning

1977 • 21 min • United States of America

Short documentary film about the failed Teton Dam near Rexburg, Idaho and how residents pulled together to rebuild.

Who’s Behind the Wall?

1977 • 22 min • Soviet Union

The near future. A fantastic experiment using the test of the mathematician Alan Turing, in which an examiner, a human, and a robot take part. During the test, the examiner must determine who is behind the wall: a person or a thinking machine. The experiment is conducted with one goal: to find out whether a machine can think.

Candle & Clock

1977 • 3 min • United Kingdom

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1977 • 7 min

A number of simple mechanical objects spiral out of a spray-paint nebula then implode into pure pattern and line.

Street Film Part V

1977 • 15 min • United States of America

Robert Edison Fulton does some incredible things with time-lapse photography in "Street Film Part V," which imparts surreal staccato movement to mostly moonlit beach scenes in Brazil. Wind-blown palms, wet pavements and sewer grates, surf and sand (some seen from an airplane) create fantastic abstract patterns as they flicker across the screen.

Martinho da Vila, Paris 1977

1977 • 8 min • Brazil

Gente do Norte

1977 • 55 min

Chronicle of resistance and hope - about Moncorvo, Trás-os-Montes: roots of the past, discourse of the future, the current reality.

The Astral Conjunction

1977 • 15 min

A young woman comes home and discovers that she has her period. She is forced to change her sanitary napkins continuously, while her husband eats eggs in the kitchen. Towels invade the room, then the apartment, then fall into the streets of the city. The chosen places are the headquarters of financial, political, police and religious power. They are centers of oppression.

Sister's Bay Christmas Morning

1977 • 4 min • United States of America

In Sister's Bay Christmas Morning, Sandin transforms natural landscapes, merging image-processed material with unaltered images of snowfall. In Wandawega Waters, a kinetic ode to nature, Sandin processes images of the surface of a lake until they are transformed into an abstracted study of light and movement.

Colonia

1977 • 17 min

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A social drama featuring a young Chicano man who moves unevenly between the world of a Eastside Los Angeles gang and his private home with his mother. The film is rooted in a distinctive sense of place in East Los Angeles locations and Chicano fashion, through an Italian neorealist lens.

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1977 • 3 min • Italy

Mario Mariotti has used more than a thousand photographic images on the crucifixion of the most important works of art. After aligning them in the points (XX) of the hands pierced by nails, he created an animation where each Work is a frame of this film.