All Films

It Moves? It Moves!

1977 • 9 min

Stone Age. The caveman goes out hunting. Escaping from a wild animal, he throws a stone axe at it. Then he drags the animal's body back to his cave, where he plays a wooden flute. While the man was walking, a ball falls from the sky, and he gets the idea to build a machine in his head. At first it was just a cart. Time flies quickly, and the man finds himself in the 20th century, where he transforms the cart into a car and tests it.

The Law of Life

1977 • 20 min

An adaptation of Jack London's short story covering the last 5 hours of the old and dying Inuit chief Koskoosh.

Toman a lesní panna

1977 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

After breaking up with his girlfriend, Toman meets a mysterious woman riding a deer who lures him into the depths of the forest.

The Beatles at Shea Stadium

1977 • 50 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New York, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour.

How to cure Boa?

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The Boa got sick. So everybody wants to treat him. In fact, nobody understood him.

Where is Elephant Going?

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Baby elephant goes somewhere. Everybody wants to know where he goes. It turned out, that he is just hanging around.

Mitzi... Zings Into Spring

1977 • 58 min

In this musical salute to Spring, Mitzi Gaynor is joined by country music star Roy Clark (Hee Haw), actor Wayne Rogers (MASH) and the US Olympic Gymnastics Team for a colorful tribute in song, dance and comedy sketches to the earth's season of renewal. Songs include "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing," "Isn't it Romantic," and "Yankee Doodle Dandy."

Max Beeza and the City in the Sky

1977 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A mysterious airship attacks the towering city in the sky and only comedian Max Beeza can save the day.

One Day Before Our Era

1977 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.

Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Bing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England.

Bass on Titles

1977 • 32 min • United States of America

Explores the visual art of Saul Bass and his contributions to film credits.

How Mushrooms Fought Against Peas

1977 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A satire on human nature projected on mushrooms and peas, based on a Russian fairy tale.

The Mermaid Frolics

1977 • 52 min • United Kingdom

In May 1977 a second Amnesty benefit was held to build on the success of the first show and with the intent of developing momentum for a regularly-scheduled benefit show.

Georgia O'Keeffe

1977 • 60 min

Georgia O'Keeffe appears on camera for the first time to talk candidly about her work and her life in this 1977 documentary.

Roadrunner

1977 • 52 min

A young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport trouble at home. His lifestyle is very different from the simple one of his family in North London, leading to considerable tension.

King of the Beasts

1977 • 25 min

The second of three animated TV specials about the animals of Noah's Ark.

Charlie Needs a Cloak

1977 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia, United States of America

A shepherd named Charlie need a new cloak, so he shears a sheep and makes one from it's wool.

Balance Proof

1977 • 30 min

Ulay and Abramović are standing holding a double-sided mirror between their bodies.

Çifte Nikah

1977 • 57 min • Turkey

Erol, a gas station attendant, is saved from arrest by his boss Remzi and in return accepts a dangerous task to kidnap billionaire Tacettin Bey, only to accidentally rescue an unsuspecting elderly man who turns out to be their intended target.

Martin the Cobbler

1977 • 27 min

A poor cobbler has a dream in which he hears the Lord promise to visit him. Instead poor people in need of food, clothing, warmth, and understanding come to him. In the end he understands that this is how the Lord visits men today.

Amisk

1977 • 40 min • Canada

A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects. Amisk represents early work by Obomsawin, a trailblazer in Canadian Aboriginal film.

Spaghetti Two-Step

1977 • 52 min

A waiter hurrying from table to table in a crowded Italian restaurant picks up titbits of conversation from the varied clientele.

Last Summer

1977 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.

The Displaced Person

1977 • 57 min • United States of America

A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.