All Films

Energy: A National Issue

1977 • 27 min • United States of America

Animated documentary talking about the United States' use of oil.

Halloween Is Grinch Night

1977 • 26 min • United States of America

When the sour-sweet wind starts blowing again, the Whos retreat to their homes because they know the Grinch will soon be a'prowlin. Young Eukariah Who has to make a trip to the Euphemism (outhouse), when the wind blows him away to a confrontation with the gruesome Grinch. Eukariah decides that the Grinch must be stopped, so he faces his fears and confronts the Grinch and his spooks.

Orion

1977 • 52 min

The world is coming to an end, and the last survivors board a space-ship ready to leave the doomed planet Earth in search of a new world.

Kipper

1977 • 29 min

Kipper is obsessed with Manor Park Football Club. At his workplace, this obsession attracts the derision of two of his colleagues. Meanwhile, Manor Park are to play against Dutch club Ajax

Autumn Fires

1977 • 53 min • New Zealand

Actor Martyn Sanderson returns in 1977 to the Hokianga of his youth and visits his elderly and romantic aunt, Olive Bracey. Her reminiscences of pioneer life mesh with nostalgic songs and readings from her fiction.

Snakewoman

1977 • 15 min

Stars Patti Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the wild, filmed guerilla style in Central Park.

Mime Control

1977 • 9 min

The artist uses the computer to accent and control a mime’s disciplined choreography. Studies in facial distortions with lens distortions. Channel 13, WNET.

The Fourth King

1977 • 24 min • United States of America

The animals decide they must send a representative after the three wise men begin following the star of Bethlehem. Uno, the Lion, arrogantly decides he should be the one to go, and that he does not need any help. Feathers, who brought Jesus's birth to the attention of the animals, insists on traveling with him, and soon he is followed by a beaver, a rabbit, and a turtle.

The Mannikin

1977 • 28 min

A singer is possessed by a demonic spirit. From the book by Robert Bloch (Psycho).

Charles Ives: A Good Dissonance Like a Man

1977 • 60 min

A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and insurance executive), who combined strikingly futuristic experimentalism with gentle nostalgia. Includes narration taken directly from Ives's own writings, and reminiscence from those who knew him.

The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

1977 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers that the robber shares his interests in shovels, black pudding and rainfall so they team up to make daring raids to steal rainfall records. As a result Eric becomes famous and is considered interesting again, so much so that he is made the mayor of Denley Moor.

Stepping Out

1977 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A couple's untraditional early morning ritual is observed in a short drama which originally supported Polanski's The Tenant in UK cinemas.

A Flintstone Christmas

1977 • 48 min • United States of America

Santa has an accident at Fred's house on Christmas Eve, Fred and Barney have to continue his run for him.

Kill the Flower Bud!

1977 • 60 min • Japan

A man (Shimomoto Shiro), who is an assistant to a star singer, and a woman (Tajima Haruka), who specializes in playing passersby in TV dramas, go on a trip on a motorcycle. They don't have any particular destination in mind, but they just think that speeding down mountain roads on a motorcycle will make them feel refreshed. Both he and she were struggling to protect their dreams in the city every day. They lived in agony, searching for a way out. When Tajima's long hair fluttered in the wind, Shimomoto began to confess. At that moment, a slight sense of unease began to grow between the two lovers...

Roots Rock Reggae: Inside The Jamaican Music Scene

1977 • 52 min • Canada, United States of America

'Roots Rock Reggae' depicts an unforgettable moment in Jamaica's history when music defined the island's struggles and immortalized its heroes. Director Jeremy Marre films Bob Marley and the Wailers, and Lee 'Scratch' Perry record in his legendary Black Ark studio with The Upsetters. Jimmy Cliff rehearses with Sly and Robbie, while Inner Circle's historic live gig is recorded on the violent Kingston streets. The legendary Abyssinians harmonize their haunting Rastafarian songs; Joe Higgs (formerly Bob Marley's teacher) plays and talks; majestic toaster U Roy raps alongside The Mighty Diamonds, and Third World record in a Kingston studio. There is also early archive footage of Toots and the Maytals, and Haile Selessie's royal visit to Jamaica while police and thieves battle it out on the streets, and the ghettos erupt in violence. 1977: An extraordinary year for Reggae music.

Red-Hot Youth

1977 • 57 min • Japan

The story centers on Beauty Pair, the mainstay of women's professional wrestling who compete in 250 matches a year, and the pain of their training and their entry into the world of professional wrestling until they defeat their nemesis, the Black Pair.

Shorelines

1977 • 4 min • United States of America

After a day of gathering hundreds of seashells and rocks from the beach, Jarnow uses the found objects to construct a stop motion commentary on how we look at nature through various cinematic techniques.

Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey

1977 • 25 min • United States of America, Japan

Nestor the donkey is a bit of an oddity--his long ears are enough for six donkeys and stretch all the way to the ground. One night, when Nestor is locked out in the cold, he begins to wander the desert.

Ghost Trio

1977 • 21 min • Germany

A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano Trio no. 5. The film repeats the imagery, and then shows what he has been reacting to.

Prohibition In Japan: Female Trafficking

1977 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku from 1977.

Daitetsujin 17: Aerial Battleship

1977 • 20 min • Japan

Captain Gomes uses a flying battleship to battle the giant robot Daitetsujin 17. Theatrically-released abridgement of Episode 15 of the TV series.

Onna no Katei

1977 • 55 min • Japan

The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

Daitetsujin 17

1977 • 25 min • Japan

Young orphan Saburo uses a special helmet to command the Iron Robot 17 against the forces of the renegade computer Brain. Theatrical release re-edited from the first two episodes of the TV series, which actually preceded the original broadcast of the second episode.

Stick Around

1977 • 28 min

It's the year 2055 and things are better for the human race, except for Vance. The Keefer family deals with daily life in the future and their older and malfunctioning robot servant, which Vance is tired of.