All Films

Dear Phone

1976 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.

The Hare, the Squeak and the Violin

1976 • 16 min • Soviet Union

How the bunny learned to play the violin.

Morning Song

1976 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The caveman stole the grasshopper's violin, and if the grasshopper does not play the morning song on time, the flowers will not wake up, and then the sun will not look into the forest clearing. Everything will remain dark and boring, the forest will die, there will be no songs. Three friends - Creak, Hare and Frog - go in search of the grasshopper's violin.

Pigeon's Milk

1976 • 45 min • Soviet Union

The protagonist is a kind and brave boy who helps people fight evil. One day, a horseman arrived at the doorstep of an orphan’s house, asking for wine and oats for his horse. The house owner, unable to provide more than a dry flatbread, offered the horse hay instead of oats, which he used as bedding. The horseman was touched by the boy’s kindness and promised to reward him generously if he followed in his footsteps and helped others along the way.

Steve Martin: On Location with Steve Martin

1976 • 56 min • United States of America

Steve Martin's HBO special was recorded as one of the network's On Location series of stand-up comedy specials. Taped on October 31, 1976, this previously unreleased show provides a rare and uncensored look at Martin's early act.

17. kesä

1976 • 44 min • Finland

A fictional tale of a mother and a 17-year-old boy moving from countryside to city and the start of a new life in the middle of a concrete jungle.

Find Us in the Mountains

1976 • 34 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about the life of geologists searching for alunites in the Dashkesan mountains.

Stefan Themerson en de taal

1976 • 46 min • Netherlands

Stefan Themerson plays himself in the role of a poet who accuses political and religious leaders of stealing the tools of his trade. His goal is to expose the demagogues as thieves. A researcher launches an investigation and discovers that the poet is unwilling to take back hidden contaminated tools. He (the poet) has devised a method to reveal the reality behind the poem. He wants to strip the words of their associations, sever their ties to the past, scrub them clean of their dictionary definitions. He calls his method Semantic Poetry.

Slash of the Knife

1976 • 30 min • United States of America

Parody focused on the horrors of being uncircumcised.

To Die for Your Country Is to Live Forever

1976 • 32 min • Cuba

With a speech by Fidel Castro as the central theme, the effects of the terrorist attacks against the interests of the Cubana de Aviacion company are revealed, and Mozambique's independence is celebrated.

The Little Drummer Boy: Book II

1976 • 24 min • United States of America, Japan

Aaron, the drummer boy, struggles to protect a bellmaker's great silver bells from seizure by Roman soldiers

The Brave Tin Soldier

1976 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A beautiful and touching story based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Steadfast Tin Soldier". A tin soldier without a leg sees a beautiful paper ballerina and falls in love. While trying to reach her, he falls from the window and has to overcome countless obstacles to see her again.

A Look Into the 23rd Century

1976 • 9 min

The movie Logan's Run (1976) depicts a supposedly Utopian society in the 23rd century, but one where, as producer Saul David puts it, "there is a worm in the apple". The filmmakers use current technology and ideals of pleasure to depict this perfect future. Director Michael Anderson finds meshing these two worlds an exciting challenge, especially in trying to create something that has never been seen before in the movies. The studio's technology department plays a key role in creating Anderson and David's vision. The movie's stars, Michael York and Jenny Agutter, provide their take on the movie, their roles and working with each other and with fellow co-star Richard Jordan. The filmmakers also need to create the antithesis of the modern Utopian world for the scenes taking place outside of the domed world.

You Talk Too Much

1976 • 26 min

An old lady seeks help from her doctor after her sun-in-law tells her that she suffers from logorrhea

An Upside Down Stadium

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An eccentric stunt sports comedy, which makes fun of those guys who know sports only on television, and think that they can do everything they see on the screen, although they themselves do not even try and consider themselves, and moreover, in all sports whether or not champions.

Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

1976 • 60 min • United States of America

A musical special promoting the then-upcoming release of the 1973 musical version of "Lost Horizon".

Old Women

1976 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Short Croatian documentary by Ante Babaja that centers around the everyday lives of elderly Yugoslav women.

Le poisson commande...

1976 • 32 min

When the three popes of militant film in Brittany, grouped together in the Union of Breton Film Production (UPCB), respond with talent to an order from fishermen's bosses... Le poisson commande includes some very beautiful images of the work at sea, as well as being an apology for industrial fishing. People of Lorient will be able to discover a fishing port then in full activity.

The Story of a Hare Boy

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A psychedelic Soviet/Estonian animation short. A hare boy doesn't want to go to sleep in the evening. His mother tries to scare him with a fox, a wolf and a bear, but he is not afraid of any of them. Suddenly, a small mouse appears on the floor - and the hare boy goes quickly under the blanket.

Mother Ireland

1976 • 38 min • United Kingdom

Edna O’Brien is interviewed by Russell Harty about her writing and her relationship with Ireland, as explored in her latest non-fiction book Mother Ireland.

Sea-Change

1976 • 29 min • United Kingdom

An elderly man and his only son continue to interact, following the death of the son in World War 2.

Penelope's Condition

1976 • 10 min • Romania

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Trojan War. In this animation, the two of them are presented in a more modern setting. While Odysseus is busy exploring the universe in his space rocket, Penelope is stuck at home, taking care of the children, showing how traditional gender roles say men should work, while women stay at home.

Mowgli's Brothers

1976 • 25 min • United States of America

Mowgli's Brothers is a 1976 television animated special created by legendary animator Chuck Jones. It is based from the first chapter of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book of the same name. The special was narrated by Roddy McDowall who does all the male characters in the film. It originally aired on CBS on February 11, 1976.

The Search for the Turlipan Bird

1976 • 13 min • East Germany

Although mocked by his collegaues, the dean of Salamanca sets off to find the legendary bird Turlipan.