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The Mallet

The Mallet

1977 • 11 min • Yugoslavia
In a futuristic, antiseptic food factory, workers select healthy chicks, while the rejects are carried along a conveyor belt until they are crushed by a mallet and drop into a garbage bin. A single black chick appears among the yellow and is shoved toward the garbage bin. Before the mallet strikes, the gasping chick rebels.
Crane’s Feathers

Crane’s Feathers

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union
An old man who took in and nursed a wounded crane is visited by a young, beautifully dressed woman.
Without Words

Without Words

1977 • 7 min • Italy
On a layover at a hotel, a young stewardess meets a handsome man. Though they do not speak a common language, they share a brief yet intense romantic relationship. Included in the omnibus film The New Monsters (I nuovi mostri).
The Most Important Sparrow

The Most Important Sparrow

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union
About a tiny bird that lived at the airport and understood very well everything that was connected with the territory and the work of the place. One day this sparrow met a dog that broke away from his masters. Together, they walk around and watch the planes, visit buffet and fully immerse themselves in the hectic life of arrivals and departures.
Under Construction

Under Construction

1977 • 5 min • Chile
While a group of workers demolish a building in the Providencia district, the director of the documentary talks with a stucco worker, accompanying him to his house. The dialogue, which begins with an inquiry into his trade, reveals the frustration of the worker, whose meager salary prevents him from paying the money required to obtain the title deeds to his own house.
Gisela Bartsch oder Warum haben Sie den Mörder geheiratet?

Gisela Bartsch oder Warum haben Sie den Mörder geheiratet?

1977 • 43 min • Germany
Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.
Sun on a String

Sun on a String

1977 • 6 min • Soviet Union
After the sun disappears behind a cloud, a little mouse decides to use a balloon as a replacement.
Tropical Paths

Tropical Paths

1977 • 25 min • Brazil
In the island of Paquetá, professor investigates the genital vocation of vegetables and fruits, maintaining sexual relations with a watermelon. In his experiences, he counts on the interlocution of an attentive student.
Ninette de Valois (Mag ik mijn grijze mapje terug)

Ninette de Valois (Mag ik mijn grijze mapje terug)

1977 • 27 min • Netherlands
A performance of Joseph Haydn's Hour Symphony is interrupted several times within half an hour.
Movie Show

Movie Show

1977 • 5 min
"A curiosity, Movie Show looks backward to the era of structural films, particularly Ken Jacobs’s Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son. The clip of film used in this performance is taken from my Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals, the work with which I closed out my interest in combinatorial and logical structures." —Tony Conrad
Cosette

Cosette

1977 • 10 min
Based on Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Arnold Burovs tells us Cosette’s story. The young girl works harder every day and does not have time for any fun.
The PCP Story

The PCP Story

1977 • 23 min
The PCP Story is a general overview of an emerging drug problem -the abuse of phencyclidine. The film is journalistic in approach as users and various authorities define the growth, effects, and dangers of the drug. Renowned researchers, R. Stanley Burns, M. D. and Steven E. Lerner, M.S., collaborated closely in the production to assure the accuracy of the film's content. Some of the characteristic signs of the low dose state of intoxication - the blank stare, ataxia, stuttering, incomplete verbal responses, and mystagmus upon testing - are graphically demonstrated by users.
The Egyptian Princess

The Egyptian Princess

1977 • 30 min
A disoriented woman searches for a man who haunts her reality through iconic Los Angeles locations in the 1920’s. Lost in her dreams, she marries her obsession, arriving at her wedding dressed as Nefertiti. At the ceremony, the man surprises his gullible new bride with a celebration of betrayal and humiliation, assisted by his recent lovers and his guests.
Panorama with Clarice Lispector

Panorama with Clarice Lispector

1977 • 28 min • Brazil
A rare interview of Clarice Lispector, from 1977, to Julio Lerner, TV Cultura reporter. After its recording, Clarice asked for the interview to be aired only after her passing. It went on air ten months later. Clarice died in December 1977, aged 57. "Uma rara entrevista de Clarice Lispector, concedida em 1977, ao repórter Júlio Lerner, da TV Cultura. Depois de gravada, Clarice pediu que a entrevista só fosse divulgada após sua morte. Foi ao ar dez meses depois. Clarice morreu em dezembro de 1977, aos 57 anos."
Trajan and Decebal

Trajan and Decebal

1977 • 11 min • Romania
An animated historical short film about Trajan's Dacian Wars.
Young People in Trouble

Young People in Trouble

1977 • 6 min
A couple argue.
Villahousupakko

Villahousupakko

1977 • 33 min • Finland
Timo Antero Kuusisto has been sick at home for a few days, and he must go back to school. His dad forces him to wear woollen panties.
Grosskochberg - Public Landscape Gardens

Grosskochberg - Public Landscape Gardens

1977 • 16 min • East Germany, Germany
Kochberg Castle was once owned by the von Stein family and Goethe visited Charlotte von Stein there several times. On the occasion of the "1000 years of Weimar" celebrations, the castle, which has been converted into a memorial, is being opened to the public. At the inauguration ceremony, students of the Weimar Academy of Music will give a large festive concert. On the basis of old engravings and personal letters and pictures the audience learns more about the relationship between Goethe and Charlotte von Stein.
Neil Diamond : Live At the Greek Theatre 1976

Neil Diamond : Live At the Greek Theatre 1976

1977 • 48 min
Neil Diamond gives a powerful and memorable performance at the packed Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in 1976, perhaps one of Neil’s great years. The show takes us back to a memorable time in pop music and in Neil Diamond’s career - while also giving us music that is as fresh and timeless today as it was then. The early hits are here, in rousing and intimate interpretations: ‘Cherry, Cherry,’ ‘Song Sung Blue,’ ‘Sweet Caroline,’ ‘I Am...I Said,’ ‘Cracklin’ Rosie,’ and more. But Neil also introduces songs from what was then his new album - and is now considered a classic - the benchmark ‘Beautiful Noise,’ produced by rocker Robbie Robertson. And Neil gets across the footlights, bringing the big audience to its feet, inciting clapping and singing along, and pulling two of the best-known stars of the era, singer Helen Reddy and the actor Henry Winkler (then an icon as TV’s ‘Fonzie’) up on stage to sing with him. An amazing trip back in time with one of our most enduring singers.
Risking It

Risking It

1977 • 25 min
"There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough.
The Barry Manilow Special

The Barry Manilow Special

1977 • 60 min • United States of America
Join Barry "live" on-stage at Ravinia Music Festival in Chicago...and "live" on the streets of New York City with special guest star Penny Marshall. The special was broadcast to record-breaking ratings on ABC in 1977 when more than 34 million people tuned in to see Barry's first national TV showcase. At the 1977 Emmys, Manilow and the program won Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety or Music.
Light Movements

Light Movements

1977 • 11 min
The Adventures of Vakula the Smith

The Adventures of Vakula the Smith

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union
The blacksmith Vakula is going to propose to the beautiful but vain Oksana. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at Vakula, because he paints religious art in the village church.
Antennid jääs

Antennid jääs

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union
It can sometimes seem as though all sorts of machines will be able to solve all problems. But this notion is wrong. Once a polar explorer once again began his research. He never imagined that the elements of nature could be so powerful that no machine would be able to stop them.