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- Mentally unstable Vietnam vets who were held captive by the Viet Cong come back to America after being rescued carrying a dangerous virus that turns people into cannibals when bitten.
- Forced to leave his family in Sicily, Mimí finds a job in a factory in Turin, where he gets involved in an extramarital affair.
- Kirikou's Grandfather says that the story of Kirikou and The Witch was too short, so he proceeds to explain more about Kirikou's accomplishments. We find out how little boy became a gardener, a detective, a maker of pottery, a merchant, a traveler and a doctor.
- An unfortunate man has quite the tumble in a barrel.
- Perhaps you're familiar with lycanthropy? More commonly known as a "werewolf" (a man that becomes a wolf), lycanthropes are a type of therianthrope. In this silent short from the early 1900s, we learn the truth about a man that becomes an ape. Evolution in reverse? Naturally, unexpected adjustments occur as "normal" folks adapt to the ape-man and vice versa.
- A soldier meets a girl on a stroll and offers to carry her basket. But when they encounter his superior officer, his superior takes over and escorts the girl, until he, in turn, runs into a higher ranking officer. And on so it goes.
- Alms for the poor! A vagabond magician teaches a moral lesson in this Alice Guy short from 1905. When charity comes your way, pass it along.
- A clown and his dog bounce a balloon in the air, making sure that it never touches the ground.
- A living statue causes problems for unsuspecting clowns.
- A Nazi officer escapes to Western-occupied Germany at the end of World War II. After his recovery and release from prison, he becomes a popular West German politician, demanding revenge against the U.S.S.R.
- As the title of this Alice Guy war-themed short describes, there is a surprise attack on (or near) a house. The time of day is impossible to verify. Daybreak, evidently. With no particular set-up for the action, it is up to the viewer to decide why these men are here and why there are on the attack.
- Alice Guy films the sea and the ocean in the beginning of cinema.
- In this brief, hand-tinted short featuring the titular Malagueña (a woman from Málaga) and a bullfighter, the couple perform a little dance for your viewing pleasure.
- A cadger, pretending to be blind, turns round little finger constabulary, putting instead of itself nothing unsuspecting inhabitant.
- A travel documentary, showing a series of panoramas captured in tourist locations in Spain
- Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.
- Hand-tinted film of a couple dance on a stage.
- In this early comedy short, the O'Mers appear as bricklayers. All havoc breaks loose, accordingly.
- A young boy tries to stop a few bad men from doing bad things in Alice Guy's silent short from 1906.
- In essence an extension of MY GIRLFRIEND'S WEDDING (Jim McBride's vérité interview with his then-girlfriend about her pending marriage to someone else) many decades later, the thematically (and titularly) related short companion piece MY SON'S WEDDING TO MY SISTER-IN-LAW allows McBride to take the "diary film" genre and turn it inside-out. Then he inverts it again.
- A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left). Virtually overlooking the falls and surrounded by the swift current not far from the camera is a small island where six or eight tourists watch the water, talk, and move about.
- Polin preforms "Anatomy of a Draftee".
- True to its title, THE TANGO is a brief document of a tango. As was common for the era, the film is hand-tinted.
- When there is a prize involved, folks will do just about anything. Run an obstacle course? Of course! Madness ensues.
- A rooster sits on its perch, crows, and flaps its wings.
- A parish priest and his parishioners can't afford the a baby Jesus for their Nativity Scene, so they pray for one and angels and the Virgin Mary appear to answers their prayers.
- French filmmaker Alice Guy documents a short dance performance in this hand-tinted short.
- Short documentary of the dirigible coming out of the hangar and flying.
- An abstract color celebration of Soviet perseverance under fire (the literal firepower of foreign and capitalist warmongers), this lyrical animated short aims to capture Mother Russia's essence like lightning in a bottle. There's a spaghetti western vibe at times to the striking silhouette imagery here. Florid patriotic folk songs on the soundtrack are often depicted line-for-line in the gorgeous animation. - Dennis Harvey
- Animation film about the Red Army sweeping the fascist barbarians from the face of the earth.
- A dialogue between director D. W. Griffith and actor Walter Huston on the subject of Griffith controversial 1915 film "Birth Of A Nation" and it's theatrical re-release in 1931
- The story of a boy raised by wolves; A call to quell fascism before it can arise again.
- The animation film is extremely simple - fascist bomber vultures cross the border of Soviet Union and get what they deserve from the red star hawks. The film ends with the famous slogan - "Our cause is right. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours!". Surprising choice of the sound track - behind the scenes the melody of the "March of the Gunners" sounds. Although no artillery, even anti-aircraft, in the frame there.
- A film shows the basic historical stages of becoming of Moscow from the origin of city to 1947.
- A spoiled little girl gets a boy who works at her father's factory into unfair trouble. She later needs his help when, playing irresponsibly in the factory, she gets trapped in a hydraulic press.
- A voice occasionally says a word or two: "on the sidewalk" or "lithium" or a woman's name. A hand-held camera frames parts of sculptures, or moves across their surfaces, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, almost always in close-up. The soundtrack, in addition to the voice, is discordant music. Light and shadows are paramount. Sometimes the camera repeats up and down movements; once, a set of jump cuts brings an object closer. The music can be shrill in contrast to the sculptures. Almost entirely of wood, they are the work of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988): abstract, usually smooth and rounded, but not always.
- A film poem; a zither plays. A woman lies naked in bed. A man removes his clothes, joins her, and they kiss. Images fill the frame, at first still lifes of common objects: a door knob, glasses, a cactus, a lamp. Then simple actions: a drawer pulled out, a letter mailed. On the soundtrack, with the music, the man and woman comment about mundane things - unconnected phrases. The actions on screen slowly become more rapid and forceful: a bird in a cage flitting about, water boiling, a drill bit biting into wood; the dialogue has stopped. Sheets on a line blow in the wind; a subway train shoots by. The images slow. Voices of the man and woman, off-screen, return. We see them lying side by side.
- The animated film is completely dedicated to the work of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
- Five horse-drawn fire-engines are seen leaving a fire station at Lyon followed by a crowd of men and boys.
- Things spin: amusement park rides, a phonograph record. A man wakes, shaves, and takes a phone call. Another man, in a kimono, walks in the woods, stops, and opens a small decorative box on the forest floor. People at an amusement park called Little Harlem enjoy themselves. A man walks through another amusement park, called Cavalcade Worlds, as midway rides spin. At a house, an older woman cleans; a pre-teen girl sets the table; a teenaged boy showers. After he dresses, he holds a candle high above his head and walks swiftly toward a young man standing bare-chested, his arms extended. A man arrives home where the girl has set the table. The youth sleeps. Christmas?
- Impressionistic illustrations and a tender admission of sorrow distinguish this animated short from run-of-the-mill Soviet propaganda. A young boy searches the countryside for stories about his beloved grandfather who died at war. He is eventually reassured that his ancestor' death was not in vain but a lingering sense of loss colors the springtime landscape.
- Subtle coloring and an impressionistic approach to landscape distinguish this patriotic animated short set to music. After a flourishing Soviet hamlet is destroyed by Nazi planes, the sole survivor is confronted by a hulking Nazi commando in a tank. The military man tries to cajole the young violinist into repeating a jaunty harmonica melody at gunpoint but the boy strikes up a noble song of resistance instead. THE PIONEER'S VIOLIN may romance the idea of martyrdom but it does so with a gravity not often found in similar films.