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- Dirty Dingus Magee and his old rival Hoke Birdsill take turns at being either lawman or outlaw and being rivals or partners in crime, depending of the circumstances.
- An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
- Abandoned as a child, Brahmachari lives in a mortgaged house with twelve young orphans. He saves a woman from dying and she changes his life forever. But first she has to deal with her own affairs.
- Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
- 1970s spoof of American New Wave films, featuring a criminal couple on the run encountering a UFO cult.
- Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him to see details, but not wholes.
- _When I Am King_ juxtaposes the story of Joringel and Jorinda with a new story played by the same actors ten years later. In the children's story, Joringel tries to save Jorinda from a witch and ogre, while Jorinda is transformed into a bird. The young adult's story, which takes up a larger portion of the film (though it switches back and forth), features Jorge, a stable boy working for a kind smithy, rescuing Jorinda, a travelling dancer, from Sir Blackstone Hardtack, a cruel lord who enslaves people in violation of the law.
- General Jinjur approaches Mombi for aid in conquering the Scarecrow king of the Emerald City. Meanwhile, the Soldier with the Green Whiskers does cartwheels prior to the annunciation of the return of Dorothy. Several dances later, Dorothy notices a miniature statue of Nick Chopper. Wishing he were present, she uses the powder of life, and with the magic words, "Wogglebug! Whimsy!" transforms the statue into the real Nick Chopper, who thanks her for bringing him to the city. They do more dances as General Jinjur summons her all-girl army by tap dancing on a drum. At this point the sound drops out on the existing print as they raid the city, leaving Scarecrow and Nick on the run, Jellia disguised as the SGW, and taking Dorothy to Mombi, who imprisons her on a flaming table, with slave boy Tip trying to rescue her.
- Four operatic acts from different plays: "Shi yuzhuo" (Picking the Jade), a drag comedy, "Da shen" (Scolding the Gods), a monologue of a jilted lover vs. the gods, "Fengyi ting" (The Fengyi Pavilion), a story of a concubine seducing a father and son, and "Damian gang" (The Noodle Jar), a coarse sex comedy.
- Every day is boring and the same to Amy, even her birthday. All the evidence her family puts forth that each day is different she rebuts with well-thought out responses of sameness. She is supposed to visit her Aunt Lucy to pick up her present from her, and instead meets weird characters who insist that her aunt has a beagle named Charlie and that she has turned into a butterfly. Eventually she encounters fairytale folk who thought their lives were normal before the events in their stories occurred.
- A young man who appears to be a bum is approached by a young woman who recognizes him from high school. After she buys him lunch, he claims to be a hunter of psychic vampires that steal our vitality, our sacred fire, while having the appearance of drunken bums. He believes her fire to be particularly strong, making her highly at risk.
- A Boston girl, Clairbel Sudds, laments that she has no talents and goes to Dr. Daws, something of a wizard, for help. He gives her five magic bon bons, each a different flavor for a different talent. They are accidentally sold to a 12 year old girl named Bessie Bostwick, whose family eats them with bizarre results. By L Frank Baum
- Four drivers are examined in this instructional film. Young Andy knows the rules of the road but lacks experience. Edith, a senior citizen, has the most experience, but tends to be too careful. Mr. Albert is a business man always in a rush. Rocky never thinks about what he is doing. The film simulates real-life potential accidents with this colorful cast of characters in a humorous way. Everybody makes mistakes, but Rocky causes the most trouble.
- William Douglas Me reports to his psychiatrist a strange story while reporting on his various physical ailments. Mr. Me went on a trip to Indonesia and picked up a valuable crown jewel at a video store for only five dollars American. The woman he got it from sold it to the wrong person and pursues him back to his home in Lebanon, Indiana, as does the villain for whom she stole it. Everyone in town soon learns Me has the jewel, including a friend who wants it for his wife, a meter reader who wants to quit, some kids and a teenager who rides a hobbyhorse, and a virtually silent thief, who speaks with intertitles.
- A pseudo-vampire bites a cop, falls in love, has a son who becomes a powerful slayer, and struggles with his relationship with God.
- A lone man sits at a table dreaming. He dreams of singing a few bars of Schubert's lied, "Nacht und Träume." Then unseen people give him a communion cup and wipe his brow. He is shown dreaming again, then the dream repeats, only much slower.
- Eight segments of opera films: Sheng Xinma performs a monologue from _A King's Revenge (1955), followed by an excerpt of _The Patriot's Sword_ (1958). Cibo Liang is featured in _An Immortal Refuses Love_ (1958), and Yutang Bai appears in _The Wonder Boy_ (1961). Segment five shows Xingbo Liang, Jiasheng Lin, and Cibo Liang in _The Impartial Bao Gong_ (1967), while segment six is a performance by Northern opera actress Suqiu Yu. The last two are versions of _Red Maid, The Matchmaker_, first a 1958 film with Yanfen Fang and An Banri, followed by one titled _The Little Go-Between_, featuring Baobao Feng and Cibo Liang. It was originally double billed with _South China Stars Special_.
- August 7, 1930 was the night of the final lynching ever to take place in Indiana, in the northern town of Marion. One survivor and several witnesses and descendants recall one of the worst events in that city's, and indeed the state's, history.
- Cameraless animation perfectly synched to the eponymous 1969 track by The Flock (Rick Canoff, John Gerber, Fred Glickstein, Jerry Goodman, Ron Karpman, Frank Posa, Jerry Smith, Tom Webb). The cameraless technique was essentially invented by Lawrence Janiak, Garland's instructor, well known in experimental film circles.
- "Father and Mother are leaders of the family government:" Betty's dad strings up everything on the breakfast table and thumbtacks it to a map where everything comes from. Then a twangy narrator shows footage of Native Americans and explains what "history" is.
- An injection that can freeze cattle solid for later thawing is prepared by a woman's husband and nephew to be used on her. At her son-in-law's warning, she replaces the fluid with tap water and accepts the injection, faking the freezing, then tormenting them as a "ghost."
- TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man who is the sole financial supporter of his family until he awakes one morning in the form of a giant dung beetle and thereby becoming a nuisance to his family, who must now learn to rely upon themselves.
- Modern dress version of Shakespeare's "problem comedy" emphasizing the darker elements of the play and eliminating most of the humor, as Claudio is dragged to the police station on charges of fornication, and given a rectal exam in front of a window.