1979 Movies

A documentary about the traditional music of the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands.

Abstract video art created in 1979. Video and audio by Dean Winkler, Glenn Van Alstyne, Tom Lucke, Elaine Lewis, and Brian Aitchison. Chirp-1 / Quant...

The filmmaker himself states that this work was inspired by René Magritte's "The Stone" (or "The Castle of the Pyrenees") and Toshio Matsumoto's "Atma...

A beginners look at herbs, their history, uses, and suggested ideas for today's homemakers. Illustrates the various ways in which herbs are used in c...

Adaptation of Albert Henrik Mohn's novella about child abuse.

Based on a poem by Blaise Cendrars.

This is a very well-done, classic older National Park Service Museum film, and featuring the excellent mounted artillery crew at Petersburg National B...

Documentary on the history of the scotch whisky distillers John Haig & Co. Ltd.

CM documentary 35mm Color 10 minutes

A short documentary exploring Pantomation, a very early tracking chromakey system from the 1970s. Originally intended for music scoring, the system wa...

Taghi and Zari run away from their village to get married in Tehran, away from their disapproving parents. However living in a big city is not as easy...

Short documentary about Santa Cruz motorcycle culture in the mid to late 70s.

Whenever the mankind suffers and is at th mercy of the tyrant, the Lord takes birth to demolish the forces of the evil. Thus, when the people of Mathu...

Using sharp glancing blows, it demonstrates how we are now able to effect an energy transference from one American gas guzzler to another.

The 3rd edition of the Sid Davis original, now in colour and with an expanded script.

Obscure Italian mondo film never released in it's home country, only receiving a home video run in Japan and a theatrical release in Hong Kong. Featur...

Documentary film footage of ground personnel starting the propeller of an American B-17 bomber is repeated in a tightly edited, rhythmic structure. Th...

The story of a battle between Maori gods, which occurs after the separation of the earth and sky. this animated film, based on a traditional myth of N...

A family prepares to meet friends.