All Films

Pinky Doodle

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

During the American Revolution, the Pink Panther is sent to notify townsfolk that the Redcoats are coming. Reissued as Yankee Doodle Pink in 1978.

The Picnic

1976 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A crusty old English General leads his eccentric family on a family picnic trip, and comic chaos ensues.

Beasts: Buddyboy

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale's "Beasts" horror anthology miniseries.

Mystic Pink

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther finds a magician's top hat, complete with a large rabbit.

Moses Coady

1976 • 57 min • Canada

The film is about Moses Coady, who was called many things in his lifetime, but who proved to be the most effective social reformer Canada has known. He went into the villages, organized the people into study groups, helped them set up credit unions and co-operatives, and freed them from the semi-feudal conditions they lived in. Today, people from all over the world come to study his methods at the Coady International Institute in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. (NFB)

Survivor

1976 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Unedited slates from a film called 'Survivor' filmed by Margaret Tait. Footage includes outdoor landscape and garden scenes, a fire burning in field and a man drinking tea in his study. [There appears to be no coherence to the footage] See also Additional Information file at 11/1/455. Paper Archives 4/5/119, 4/11/651, 4/5/92.

Mirror, Mirror

1976 • 30 min

A TV production crew member becomes distracted while polishing a mirror. He turns his attention to the watching TV cameras, which now appear to have personalities of their own.

Children

1976 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.

Play Things

1976 • 60 min

A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.

Illusive Crime

1976 • 46 min

Experimental narrative dealing with female oppression/class control. Controversial at time, especially among feminists.

CID: Four Moments of Life (Dawn, Noon, Dusk, Night)

1976 • 50 min • Hong Kong

Four episodes combined. Dawn: the first cop goes to interrogate the parents of a babygirl who got burnt by an iron. These, eventually admit to be the one responsible but they state it was an accident. Going back on a bus, he reads a newspaper article reporting another case of violence against minors. Noon: the moustached cop cop collects the report of a mother regarding the presence of perverts in her building. A thirteen-year-old girl is spotted with a man in equivocal acts: when she is interrogated she shows no signs of anxiety. Dusk: in a nursing home a guest kills another old man with an axe. He is interrogated by the older cop who, once back home, talks with his wife and daughter while watching sadly TV. Night: the fourth cop is in a disco when he gets the call that a collegue’s wife was the victim of a hit and run. The following morning he goes back to the office.

Beasts: Baby

1976 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

İntikamcı

1976 • 48 min • Turkey

The story of a bully who seeks revenge after getting out of jail

Stones

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).

Early Struggles

1976 • 60 min

Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?

America Live

1975 • 44 min

Dewey Bunnel, Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley formed America in the late 1960's in London. After their self-titled debut album was released in 1972, the band captured the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. By 1975, America had 4 songs in the Top 10 Pop Singles chart in the US [Tin Man, Ventura Highway, I Need You, and Horse With No Name]. They released the George Marin-produced "Holiday" ust a few months prior to this 1975 performance that captures America at the top of their game.

Sweet Friday

1975 • 4 min • Japan

An animation mixing hand-drawn and cut-out techniques depicting the daily rituals of weekday morning that is occasionally interrupted by flights of fantasy delivered in stroboscopic flashes. Showing scenes of brushing teeth and face washing, Tanaami describes the film to be like a self-portrait on his favorite day of the week.

Default Averted

1975 • 20 min

When New York was about to go bankrupt, all construction had stopped and an architect tried to become a wrecker. This is the story of the demolition of a large factory building on 23rd Street and 6th Avenue. Meanwhile daily business - grimy or funny, money or no money - goes on as usual.

National Costume

1975 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Individual political policies and regimes used and abused the national costume of Slovenia. Despite the fact that the individual details of the Slovenian national costume borrowed from the garbs of the German Alpine region, it has maintained the specificity of the area. Today, the national costume is presented as a tourist attraction.

How Vanya Chose His Wife

1975 • 20 min • Soviet Union

While searching for a bride, the hero realized that wealth is not the main thing in life.

Operation London Bridge

1975 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

Nice to See You

1975 • 4 min • Japan

When taking a microscopic view of a dot of the printer ink, it begins to transform into unstable forms. The other sphere/eyeball which appears when moving away from the dot, suggests the overlay of the swaying of the retina that occurs when staring, and the motion within animation.

Circling

1975 • 12 min

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

Zwartziek

1975 • 59 min • Netherlands

A husband can’t accept that his wife would like to live something else than her life as a wife.