All Films

Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber

1977 • 18 min • Brazil

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

The Love Letters from Teralba Road

1977 • 50 min • Australia

A violent man (Bryan Brown), who ostensibly has a slight mental illness due to fillings in his teeth, continues to write letters to his estranged girlfriend, Kris McQuade. She sees that he expresses himself more dearly in his letters and he is still quick tempered when they try to rekindle their relationship.

The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes

1977 • 44 min • East Germany, Germany

Television adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale.

Strega Nona

1977 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia, United States of America

Big Anthony, left alone with Strega Nona's magic pasta pot, runs into trouble when he decides to show the townspeople how it works.

Give Us a Kiss, Christabel

1977 • 25 min

Casual labour appeals to Wilfred, and the street market is a friendly home until he meets the beautiful Christabel. Her haughty dismissal drives him to amazing feats. He'll do anything for a kiss.

Hålet

1977 • 9 min • Sweden

Animated film about a man interested in holes.

Doug Henning's World of Magic

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

The December 1977 broadcast of Doug Henning's World of Magic, hosted by Glen Campbell.

A Cosmic Christmas

1977 • 26 min • Canada

Three aliens from an unknown planet, who bear a strong resemblance to the Biblical Magi, visit earth to know the true meaning of Christmas. Peter, a young boy, and Lucy, his goose, are the first to encounter them. Unable to find the true meaning of Christmas in town, Peter takes them to his family's house in the woods. While Peter's grandmother tells the aliens about her memories of Christmas, Marvin, one of the town's bullies, steals Lucy. In the chase to rescue Lucy, Marvin falls through the ice in a lake. Peter attempts to rescue him but falls into the lake as well. The townsfolk, who were out searching for the aliens, attempt to save the boys but their human chain isn't long enough to reach them. The three aliens, who had sworn not to interfere with events on earth, decide to help in order to learn the meaning of Christmas.

Canned Performance

1977 • 6 min

Color UCLA Student Animation Workshop Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Mixed live action and stop motion absurdist animation of a desert traveler who encounters a Godzilla-like monster emerging from a Coca-Cola can. Directed by animator and special effects artist Hoyt Yeatman, known for visual effects on The Fly (1986), Armageddon (1998), The Abyss (1989), and for directing G-Force (2009).

Henry Ford's America

1977 • 58 min • Canada

A study of the automobile and its pervasive effect on the history of North America. Focusing on the Ford dynasty, from the original Henry car through to Henry II, the film demonstrates how society has adapted to fit the needs of the automobile.

Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam

1977 • 50 min

Stigma

1977 • 32 min • United Kingdom

A young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a supernatural force.

Charades

1977 • 55 min

An innocent game during an opulent weekend at a Scottish castle annoys the sinister housekeeper and causes several family skeletons to rattle in their cupboards.

Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers

1977 • 29 min

Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers is a collection of works that address the desire to transcend the perceptual and cognitive structures of experience.

Vasilisa the Beautiful

1977 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the curse, he must go on a quest to find and outsmart the forest witch Baba Yaga.

There's No Place...

1977 • 30 min

Val and Tony set up home in a disused railway goods-yard. It is more than just a squat and draws them closer together than they have ever been.

Soldier's Home

1977 • 42 min • United States of America

Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more. He needs peace and quiet to figure out what has happened to him and who he has become, but his mother pressures him to rejoin society.

Below the Lion Rock: Ode To Un Chau Chai

1977 • 24 min

In the 1970s, the boat people of Un Chau Chai in Tai Po lived in wooden huts in extremely cramped and horrible conditions. "Ode To Un Chau Chai" tells the story of boatman Dai-Shing, a gambling addict whose wife works her fingers to the bone to support their large family and whose father helps out by selling dried seaweed.

Gene

1977 • 16 min • Canada

A young man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different.

Mandala

1977 • 7 min

Gumby creator Art Clokey takes viewers on a psychedelic journey through a strange, homemade world. Mandala is an extraordinary film, made in 1974-77, in which transformations of colored abstract shapes in a mystical dreamscape of clay animation transition out to the real world and back, suggesting a revolution in thinking, and an evolution of feeling.

Elvis in Concert

1977 • 50 min

Elvis In Concert is a posthumous 1977 TV special starring Elvis Presley. It was Elvis' third and final TV special, following Elvis (aka The '68 Comeback Special) and Aloha From Hawaii. It was filmed during Presley's final tour in the cities of Omaha, Nebraska, on June 19, 1977, and Rapid City, South Dakota, on June 21, 1977. It was shown on CBS on October 3, 1977, two months after Presley died. It is one of the few videos of Elvis which remain unlikely to ever be released for home viewing and is only available in bootleg form.

Parlons cinema avec Eric Rohmer

1977 • 51 min • Canada

An interview with French film director Eric Rohmer.

The Woman with Two Heads

1977 • 15 min • Japan

As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at Rockpalast

1977 • 44 min • Germany

Frontman/guitarist Tom Petty, guitarist Mike Campbell, bassist Ron Blair, keyboardist Benmont Tench and drummer Stan Lynch opened their taping at WDR Studio-L in Cologne with the rarity “Surrender.” A cover of Chuck Berry’s “Jaguar and Thunderbird” was performed next, followed by “American Girl.” Other well-known originals filling out the setlist include “Listen To Her Heart” and “Breakdown.” The taping concluded with back-to-back covers of Bobby Troup’s “Route 66” and The Isley Brothers’ “Shout.”