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The following film programs include a collection of films that are diverse in their style and content but similar in their independent production values. The artists behind each film chose to produce their films outside the commercial film industry thus enabling them the freedom to personally form their film and, oftentimes, find alternatives to the traditional formats . s~
THE PERSONAL CINEMA ...... 2-5 ANIMATION ...... 6-8 DOCUMENTARY ...... 9-10 SOUTHERN SNAPSHOTS ...... 11-14 NEW FILMS FROM THE NEW SOUTH ...... 15 DANCE ...... 16 DREAMS, TALES AND LEGENDS ...... 17-19 HUMOR, PARODY & SATIRE ...... 20 CREATIVITY ...... 21 ADVENTURES ...... 22-23 TEACHING FILM WITH FILM ...... 24-26 STUDENT-MADE FILMS ...... 27 *AT THE MOVIES WITH BAD DOG ...... 28-33 INDEX OF FILMS ...... 34-35 GENERAL INFORMATION ...... 36
*AT THE MOVIES WITH BAD DOG :s designed to promote children's media awareness through films, discussions, art, creative writing, and dramatics. Each program comes with a guide to each film including planned activities for age groups 4 to 8 and 9 to 12. The Media Arts Center staff will provide additional information and assistance.
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The South Carolina Arts Commission Media Arts Center 1800 Gervais Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 803/734-8684
The South Carolina Arts Commission is a state agency which promotes the visual, literary, performing and media arts in South Carolina . The South Carolina Arts Commission Media Arts Center supports media artists and media arts in a ten-state southeastern region which includes Alabama , Florida , Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia . Both the South Carolina Arts Commission and South Carolina Arts Commission Media Arts Center receive funding support from the National Endowment for the Arts .
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PROGRAM 1 43 Minutes $25 FRANK FILM NY, NY SAMADHI POLAR MOMENTUM
FRANK FILM . Frank & Caroline Mouris. 10m. Color. Academy Award-winning animation that traces the life of the filmmaker.
NY,NY. Francis Thompson . 15m. Color . Special visual effects convey the multiplicity, glitter and excitement of the Big Apple.
SAMADHI. Jordan Belson . 6m. Color. A film poem which illustrates the progression of Samadhi, a Mahayana Buddhist term for ultimate state of consciousness, as the individual merges with the universal soul.
POLAR. Peter Bundy. 2m. B&W. A mysterious image is given close scrutiny through varying camera lenses.
MOMENTUM . Ray Day. 10m. Color. An artistic insight into the day in life of an auto mechanic.
Page 2 Moon Breath Beat by Lisze Bechtold .
PROGRAM 2 43.5 Minutes $25 MOON BREATH BEAT SOFT SAND MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON FAMILY DREAM HOMAGE TO MAGRITTE
MOON BREATH BEAT. Lisze Bechtold. 5m . Color. A woman and her two cats are diverted by their natural attraction to birds and the whims of the moon .
SOFT SAND . Nancy Yasecko . 3m . Color. The film by South Carolina Filmmaker Nancy Yasecko moves like soft sand , sifting and chang ing found footage . The sound is from natural sources and electron ic synthesizers .
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON . Maya Deren . 20m . B&W . One of the major American Experimental films of all time , laying bare a woman 's (Deren 's) inner obsession and hallucinations , through a choreography of movement and personal drama.
FAMILY DREAM . Jan Millsapps. 5.5m. Color. A film by South Carolina filmmaker Jan Millsapps exploring dreams and dreaming based on an intriguing , disturbing dream about her family.
HOMAGE TO MAGRITTE . Anita Thacher. 10m. Color. The film fully embodie.s the spirit of surrealist painter Renee Mag ritte , capturing the beautiful , subtle , restrained , uncanny nature of his vision which is interpreted by Thacher as five in dividual filmic paintings .
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PROGRAM 3 41 .5 minutes $25 PLACE OF EMERGENCE ZONES FIVE IMPROVISATIONS
PLACE OF EMERGENCE . Paul Brekke . 20m . Color . A haunting vision of the primordial existence of animal/man.
ZONES . Dan Curry . 18m. Color. A sometimes humorous cinematic diary of Curry's life in Virginia that explores the relationship of sound, image and narrative .
FIVE IMPROVISATIONS. Paul Glabicki . 3.5m . B&W. A playful scrambling of outlined images that includes a scintillating homage to early filmmakers such as George Melies and Windsor McCay .
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Page 4 Murita Cycles by Barry Braverman .
PROGRAM 4 38 Minutes $25 MILL HUNK HERALD SWEET SAL
MILL HUNK HERALD . Tony Buba. 13m. Color and B&W. A film dedicated to the spirit of Lech Walesa and union struggles set in Buba's hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania .
SWEET SAL. Tony Buba. 25m B&W. A straight on portrait of a fast-talking , woman-chasing pool hustler living in the dying Penn sylvania mill town of Braddock , Pennsylvania .
PROGRAM 5 63 minutes $25 MURITA CYCLES THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SEE FAR ENOUGH
MURITA CYCLES . Barry Braverman . 28m . Color. Braverman's portrait of his father whose enthusiasm for collecting has overwhelmed the size of his house and neighborhood bicycle fix-it garage.
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SEE FAR ENOUGH . Peter Rose . 35m . Color. Varying in style from parody to elegy to spectacle to confession to a kind of rite-of-passage , the film includes Rose 's spectacular ascent, with camera in hand, of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Page 5 The Sound Collector by Lynn Smith. =~~ PROGRAM 1 42 minutes $20 RED BALL EXPRESS STARCYCLE CONEY AMERICAN TIME CAPSULE HEN HOP RED BALL EXPRESS . Steve Segal. 2m . Color. UP IS DOWN Virginia animator Steve Segal draws directly on film creating a playful , animated train which PANDORA 'S BOX spins, romps and changes its shape. THE SOUND COLLECTOR STARCYCLE . Deanna Morse. 3m . Color. Using techniques of metamorphosis, the film follows the birth, death and rebirth of an orange cartoon star. The soundtrack is children 's reactions to the visuals .
CONEY . Frank & Caroline Mouris . 5.5m . Color. An amusing jaunt via time-lapse photography through New York's infamous Coney Island amuse ment park .
AN AMERICAN TIME CAPSULE . Charles Braverman . 3m . Color. A landmark work which established the art of kinestasis (animating still photographs) . This widely-acclaimed film visually compresses 200 years of American history into 3 pounding minutes . HEN HOP . Norman Mclaren . 4m . Color. The economic designs perfected by Mclaren for drawing directly on film create a sprightly new puzzle of the classic egg-before-chicken, chicken-before-egg dilemma.
UP IS DOWN . Goldsholl Associates . 6m. Color. A classic tale about a boy who walks on his hands illustrates the conflict between conformity and creative growth.
PANDORA 'S BOX. Steve Segal. 7.5m . Color. A continually revolving box reveals odd bits of old films, cartoons and humorous clips of Segal himself.
THE SOUND COLLECTOR . Lynn Smith . 11m. Color. Leonard, a six-year-old, has an unusual hobby that his brother and father think is strange . He collects sounds and builds a story in which Dracula meets a knight-in-armor.
Page 6 Boccioni's Bike by Skip Battaglia .
PROGRAM 2 46 minutes $20 QUASI AT THE QUACKADERO BOCCIONI'S BIKE COMPOSITION IN BLUE THE MYSTERIANS HEAD AN OLD BOX
QUASI AT THE QUACKADERO. Sally Cruikshank. 10m. Color. Quasi, Anita and Rollo visit a Coney Island of the future where hotels stage conventions for talking vegetables and thoughts are made into paintings while-u-wait.
BOCCIONI'S BIKE. Skip Battaglia. Sm . Color. A lyrical interpretation of the movements of a bicyclist depicted in the graphic style of the Italian Futurists .
COMPOSITION IN BLUE. Oskar Fischinger. 4m . Color. One of the classic examples of the traditional abstract expression of film art produced in Ger many in 1933.
THE MYSTERIANS. Kathy Rose . 4m . Color. An excellent line animation which uses a metamorphosis style in which strange forms evolve into and out of each other.
HEAD . George Griffin . 11m. Color. An ingenious film in which the animator's own face, hands and voice are involved in the un folding of his animation techniques, including some extraordinary optical illusions.
AN OLD BOX. Paul Driessen. 9m . Color. Created with the barest of lines, flashes of color, street sounds and music, this magical journey speaks of loneliness and joy, old age and human values , and the spell of Christmas .
Page 7 Tango by Zbigniew Rybczynski .
PROGRAM 3 41 minutes $20 HALLELUJAH FUJI THE STREET PRECIOUS METAL FURIES TWO SPACE TANGO HALLELUJAH . Mark Henriksen . 4m . B&W. South Carolina filmmaker Mark Henriksen animates the experimental photographs of motion picture pioneer Edweard Muybridge to the music of Handel 's Chorus.
FUJI. Robert Breer. Bm. Color. A voyage made by tracing , frame by frame, the live images taken from a train window during Breer's trip from Osaka to Tokyo.
THE STREET . Caroline Leaf. 10m. Color. Based on a selection from a novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler, the story concerns the death of a grandmother in a Jewish family.
PRECIOUS METAL . David Ehrlich . 4rn . Color. As in a Bach canon , Ehrlich uses a linear motion which is broken by a simultaneous forward backward progression that counterpoints the visuals.
FURIES . Sara Petty. 3m. Color. Set to ned Rorem 's " Trio for Flute , Cello and Piano ," Petty employs charcoal and pastels to create Cubist and Art Deco-inspired designs evoking the joyous curiosity , grace and beauty of two cats in constant motion .
TWO SPACE . Larry Cuba . Bm . B&W. Rendered in stark black and white , two dimensional patterns (like the tile pattern of Islamic temples) produce illusions of figure-ground reversal and afterimages of color. Gamelan music from the classical tradition of Java helps create a mesmerizing effect.
TANGO . Zbigniew Rybczynski. 4m. Color. The Academy Award Winner in 1983, this Polish gem rhythmically mattes a comple x series of entrances , exits and recurring actions within a tiny room .
Page 8 Rain by Joris Ivens.
PROGRAM 1 53 minutes $25 GLASS RAIN THE BOLERO
GLASS . Bert Haanstra. 1im. Color. A classical short film from the Netherlands which at first has all the appearances of an in dustrial film about a glass-blowing factory but progresses into a superbly creative blending of camera and editing that produces an incredibly high visual impact.
RAIN. Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken. 12m. B&W. A film poem depicting the moods and visual patterns of a rain shower in Amsterdam. RAIN, made in 1929, is one of the last great silent films .
THE BOLERO. Allan Miller & William Fertik. 30m. Color. A 1974 Academy Award-Winning independent production that marries camera and orchestra to provide a unique, personal and powerfully-moving look at the members of an orchestra as it prepares and performs Ravel's BOLERO.
Page 9 Nature's Way by John Long and Elizabeth Barret.
~~ PROGRAM 2 58 minutes $25 NATURE'S WAY BOZO DAILY LIFE SOMETIMES I RUN
NATURE'S WAY. John Long and Elizabeth Barret. 20m . Color. Mountaineers explain their herbal home remedies with references to Indian folklore and a mid wife helps deliver twins.
BOZO DAILY LIFE (AFRICAN VILLAGE LIFE) . Julien Bryan. 16m. Color. Southwest of Mopti and Timbukutu in Africa, the Bozo people meet the demands of their en vironment through their daily activities .
SOMETIMES I RUN . Blaine Dunlap. 22m . B&W. A fine example of personal filmmaking, this film features the remarkable philosophy and pro files the character of a Dallas street-cleaner--one of the millions of personalities usually lost and unheralded in our complex, busy culture .
Page10 Born for Hard Luck: Peg Leg Sam Jackson by Tom Davenport.
PROGRAM 1 64 minutes $25 CHARLESTON HOME MOVIE MAYBE NEXT WEEK SOMETIME BORN FOR HARD LUCK: PEG LEG SAM JACKSON
CHARLESTON HOME MOVIE. Deanna Morse . Sm. Color. An animated home movie with images and memories of Morse 's life in Charleston , South Carolina set to Keith Jarrett 's " Country. "
MAYBE NEXT WEEK SOMETIME. David Boatwright. 30m . Color. Charleston filmmaker David Boatwright documents Black music in the South Carolina low country -- jazz, blues and gospel played from porches , prisons and churches.
BORN FOR HARD LUCK: PEG LEG SAM JACKSON . Tom Davenport . 29m . B&W. The film by Virginia filmmaker Tom Davenport is a portrait not only of Peg Leg Sam the hobo , living by his wits and talent in the Jim Crow era , but also of Jackson the man , who left - and returned to his roots in a community near Union, South Carolina .
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=· s~s~ PROGRAM 2 52 minutes $25 MISSISSIPPI DELTA BLUES: GIVE MY POOR HEART EASE ALABAMA DEPARTURE LET THE SPIRIT MOVE
MISSISSIPPI DELTA BLUES: GIVE MY POOR HEART EASE. Bill Ferris, Josette Rossi and Judy Peiser. 20m . Color. The film begins with Louis Dotson playing his " One stand on the wall ;" moves to Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown's juke joint in Leland, Mississippi where James " Sonny Ford " Thomas and Little Son Jefferson play classic Delta blues while couples dance the boogie and slow drag.
ALABAMA DEPARTURE. Peter Bundy & Bryan Elsom . 7m . Color. A poetic meditation on the South with images of land , water and an old man who speaks of high-toned Christians, funerals for dogs and his attitude towards life .
LET THE SPIRIT MOVE . Bill Gray. 25m . B&W. An examination of the remarkable life of Prophet Grover Moss, a North Carolina street preacher with a strange past and an uncertain future.
Page 12 The People Who Take Up Serpents by Gretchen Robinson .
PROGRAM 3 60 minutes $25 THE PEOPLE WHO TAKE UP SERPENTS
THE PEOPLE WHO TAKE UP SERPENTS. Gretchen Robinson. 60m . Color. An intriguing documentary by South Carolina filmmaker Gretchen Robinson on snake handlers and their beliefs. Intensive character studies portray religious practices of this fundamentalist sect.
PROGRAM 4 43 minutes $25 EVERYTHING CHANGE UP NOW
EVERYTHING CHANGE UP NOW. Gretchen Robinson . 43m . Color. A film by South Carolina filmmaker Gretchen Robinson that documents lifestyles of South Carolina Sea Islanders whose culture is fast fading in the wake of wide-spread commercial develop ment. Shrimpers, net makers and basket weavers ply their trades in spite of threats to their native land .
Page 13 It's Grits by R. Stanley Woodward .
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IT'S GRITS . R. Stanley Woodward. 45m . B&W. This film by South Carolina filmmaker Stan Woodward is propelled by the simple question " Do you eat grits?" It winds its way from diner to truckstop from city to backwoods from South of the Border to New York City.
KUDZU . Marjie Short . 18m. Color. KUDZU is an offbeat, witty . informative documentary about Pueraria Thunbergiana ... the vine that is devouring the South . Featuring the Kudzu Queen , the Kudzu Band, appearances by Jim my Carter and novelist/poet James Dickey, the film illustrates how southern folk humor and traditions have centered around a botanical pest.
Page.14 Light Corner by W.A. Brown.
PROGRAM 1 76.5 minutes $25 ($150 outside of South Carolina) LIGHT CORNER L'ACADIE: AN ALBUM OF 16MM EKTACHROME SKETCHES ENA DANCING LESSONS FULL FRAME ONE AOUI SE LO HALLA (HERE YOU LIGHT CORNER. W. A. Brown. 7m. Color. WILL FIND IT) The ordinary lightbulb is elevated to its dramatic design potential as scribe of fluid light and color by filmmaker W. A. Brown of Georgia. FOLLY BEACH JOURNAL
L'ACADIE: AN ALBUM OF 16MM EKTACHROME SKETCHES. Robert Russett. 16m. Color. Filmmaker Robert Russett of Louisiana has composed an untraditional portrait of the Frellch Acadiana region in Louisiana that structures pastoral and social impressions.
ENA. David Audet. 3m . Color . Silent. Filmmaker David Audet of Florida has conceived an elaborately textured portrart of Ena on moving day .
DANCING LESSONS. Nancy Yasecko . 4m . Color. A film crew's playful home movies are transformed by South Carolina filmmaker Nancy Yasecko into a gestural study.
FULL FRAME ONE . Tom Whiteside. Sm . B&W. Silent. Filmmaker Tom Whiteside of North Carolina has etched diagonal lines directly on the film ; the projected frames are like a focused sound that is altered with each viewing .
AQUI SE LO HALLA {HERE YOU WILL FIND IT) . Lee Sokol. 18.5m. Color. Filmmaker Lee Sokol of Georgia seductively combines elements of deception , romance and ritual through the rhythms of color, close shot images, sound/silence interplay and the per sonal confession of awakening desires as related by a Mexican man beginning his story as a boy of seven .
FOLLY BEACH JOURNAL. Jan Millsapps. 10m. Color. Filmmaker Jan Millsapps of South Carolina combines live action and animated sequences to define and redefine her visits to the sea which are both contemplative and whimsical.
Page 15 Pas de Duex by Norman Mclaren .
PROGRAM 1 40 minutes $20 BALLET ADAGIO NINE VARIATIONS ON A DANCE THEME PAS DE DEUX
BALLET ADAGIO . Norman Mclaren. 10m. Color. A superb dance production which features the Canadian artists Anna Marie and David Holmes dancing the ballet, SPRING WATER.
NINE VARIATIONS ON A DANCE THEME . Hilary Harris. 16.5m . B&W. A repeated simple dance theme becomes nine different dances as the camera uses angles and movements to redefine the dance space .
PAS DE DUEX . Norman Mclaren. 14m. B&W. An exquisite articulation of dance in filmic terms . The film combines music with multiple-exposed footage of a dance to underscore the basic physical and visual properties of the art form .
PROGRAM 2 40 minutes $20 RHYTHMETRON
RHYTHMETRON . Dance Theatre of Harlem. 40m . Color. Authur Mitchell and the dance theatre of Harlem discuss and demonstrate the discipline of classical ballet applied to everyday life .
Page 16 Take the 5: 10 to Dreamland by Bruce Conn er. \
PROGRAM 1 42 :10 minutes $20 TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND LA JETEE MINDSCAPE
TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND . Bruce Conner. 5:10m. Sepia . Bruce Conner edits a few found footage images into an ecstatic order that works in a miraculous way . \ LA JETEE . Chris Marker. 29m . B&W. In the aftermath of a world wide holocaust, a man is subjected to scientific experimentation q in which he is forced to exist in the past, present and future with no sense of his own history.
MINDSCAPE . Jacques Drouin . Sm . B&W. A painter steps through the scene of a landscape he is painting and travels the regions of the mind . Through richly modulating imagery, the film explores the interior landscape wh ich each of us carries within ourselves , through an unusual pinscreen animation technique .
Page 17 Hansel and Gretel: An Appalacian Version by Tom Davenport. I o~. IJU. i.-iJ. r~
PROGRAM 2 34 minutes $20 CLOSED MONDAYS HANSEL AND GRETEL : AN APPALACHIAN VERSION THE MARBLE
CLOSED MONDAYS . Will Vinton & Bob Gardiner. Sm . Color. An Academy Award-winning film that uses clay to create the story of a drunken man who wanders into a museum and laughs with scorn at the modern art he finds .
HANSEL AND GRETEL: AN APPALACHIAN VERSION. Tom Davenport. 16m. Color. I The classic Grimm Brothers' folktale is set in southern Appalachia during the Great Depres sion . The live action interpretation by Virginia filmmaker Tom Davenport is loyal to the original story and chilling in its realism .
THE MARBLE. Jan Oonk. 10m. Color. This award-winning film displays fine editing, scripting and an unusual point of view . A young boy loses his prize marble and his imagination launches a great chase to retrieve it.
Page 18 Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott.
PROGRAM 3 48 minutes $25 ANANSI THE SPIDER OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE THE LEGEND OF JOHN HENRY
ANANSI THE SPIDER . Gerald McDermott. 11m. Color. From the Ashanti people of western Africa comes a folktale about Anansi the Spider and his six sons , each having a special quality that becomes invaluable to the story of Anansi.
OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE . Robert Enrico. 27m . B&W. Based on Ambrose Bierce's Civil War story of a young man caught in the act of sabotage and hanged . In the last seconds of his life, he escapes and in a nightmarish dream-like se quence. races to join his beloved wife .
THE LEGEND OF JOHN HENRY. Nick Bosustow. 10m. Color. In this animated folktale, Roberta Flack sings and narrates the legend of the black American folk hero John Henry.
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PROGRAM 1 42 .5 minutes $20 BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA THE CONCERT THE CRITIC THE DOVE THE RIDE RUSSIAN ROOSTER
BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA. Marv Newland. 1.5m . Color. A delightful spoof on endless film credits with an epic ending .
THE CONCERT. Julian & Claude Chagrin . 12m. Color. A pianist gives a concert in the street -- leaping and dancing on the black and white bands of a crosswalk which serves as his keyboard.
THE CRITIC . Ernest Pintoff. 4m . Color. Narrated by Mel Brooks, this Academy Award winner satirizes the audience as well as the creators of avant garde cinema and art.
THE DOVE . Coe , Davis & Lover. 15m. B&W . This popular short film classis is an hilarious travesty of lngmar Bergman 's thematic and visual style . Based on Bergman 's WILD STRAWBERRIES , THE SEVENTH SEAL and THE SILENCE , THE DOVE'S broad parody will delight anyone who has ever enjoyed a Bergman film .
THE RIDE. Gerald Potterton . ?m . Color. The comic fantasy opens with a chauffeur sitting in a Rolls Royce waiting for his employer. The scene shifts from a residential street to snowy hills where scenes of comic misadventure begin .
RUSSIAN ROOSTER . Steve Segal. 3m. Color. A humorous treatment by Virginia animator Steve Segal of the flight of a rooster (to a Rimsky Korsakov score) who manages to turn the tables on the men who hunt him. Page 20 Why Man Creates by Saul Bass.
PROGRAM 1 53 minutes $25 WHY MAN CREATES WISHES, LIES AND DREAMS
WHY MAN CREATES . Saul Bass . 25m . Color. Using eight separate episodes-- some whimsical , some instructive, Bass probes the various facets of man 's drive to create .
WISHES , LIES AND DREAMS . Eric Breitbart & Alan Jacobs. 28m . Color. Poetry sessions in the intermediate classroom involve the progression from idea to product with readings and discussions on the meanings of a variety of student and professional poems.
Page 21 The Fur Coat Club by Joan Micklir. Silver.
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SOLO. Mike Hoover. 18m. Color. 1974 Academy Award Nominee for best Short Film, SOLO was made to share the danger, suspense, triumph and exhilaration that a mountain climber normally experiences alone.
THE WILD GOOSE. Bruce Cronin. 15m . B&W. Hilarious treatment of a rebellious resident at a home for the elderly who outwits the institution in managing a great escape.
THE FUR COAT CLUB. Joan Micklin Silver. 18m. Color. Depicts the adventure of two nine-year-old girls who have invented a secret game of touching fur coats without the wearer realizing it. Later they inadvertently become trapped in the vault of a fur store .
Page 22 The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse .
PROGRAM 2 52 minutes $25 THE RED BALLOON T IS FOR TUMBLEWEED
THE RED BALLOON . Albert Lamorisse . 34m . Color. With little dialogue , Lamorisse films a story of a little Parisian boy (played by his son) and his " pet" balloon .
T IS FOR TUMBLEWEED . James A. Lebenthal. 18m. Color. The leaping, rolling adventures of a tumbleweed and its encounters with people, animals and things are poetically chronicled in this non-narrated film.
Page 23 Claymation by Will Vinton .
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ANIMATION PIE. Robert Bloomberg. 26m. Color. A spirited look at students learning to animate using the flipbook, drawing on film , pixillation , cut-outs and clay animation.
CLAYMATION. Will Vinton. 18m. Color. Will Vinton and his merry troup of animators take you inside their studio for a whimsical , im aginative demonstration of their Oscar-winning clay animation techniques.
CLAY, ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES. Elliot Noyes . Jr. 10m. B&W . This internationally award-winning film established the technique of animation using clay as an art form .
Page 24 Basic Film Terms : A Visual Dictionary by Sh eldon Renan .
PROGRAM 2 39 minutes $20 BASIC FILM TERMS : A VISUAL DICTIONARY UNDERSTANDING MOVIES THE ARTIST AND THE COMPUTER
BASIC FILM TERMS : A VISUAL DICTIONARY . Sheldon Renan . 15m. Color. This film illustrates basic filmmaking language as it is used in the writing, shooting, and editing of a motion picture .
UNDERSTANDING MOVIES . William Vanpraag . 13m. Color. Time space proportion -- how does it relate to filmmaking? Illusion versus reality , the com pression and expansion of time, and the use of sound are discussed for a filmmaking lesson at the elementary level. -
THE ARTIST AND THE COMPUTER. Lillian Schwartz. 11m. Color. The film intercuts footage from four computer animations made by Lillian Schwartz with the artist's comments about her work.
Page 25 The American Super-B Revolution by R. Stanley Woodward .
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THE EYE HEARS AND THE EAR SEES. Gavin Miller. 59m . Color. A visual graphic artist and an innovative , creative technician, Norman Mclaren shows how he employs the motion picture to develop his animation techniques-- metamorphoses, visual abstraction and synthesis of picture and sound . One of the world 's greatest animators, Na tional Film Board of Canada artist Norman Mclaren has inspired and entertained millions with his joyous films.
PROGRAM 4 40 minutes $20 THE AMERICAN SUPER-8 REVOLUTION
THE AMERICAN SUPER-B REVOLUTION . R. Stanley Woodward . 40m . Color. Originally shot on Super-Bmm, this film was created by a fifth grade class for a social studies unit. It is narrated and directed by Jerry, a 10-year-old student who explains how the idea for the film originated.
Page 26 Night of the Moles by Jeff Sumerel.
PROGRAM 1 58 minutes $25 NIGHT OF THE MOLES UPPITY ALBERT MCQUIRE LUKE : A TRIBUTE TO FRED
NIGHT OF THE MOLES . Jeff Sumerel. 20m. B&W. What do moles, "Blue Moon" and an accordian have in common? A satire on suspense and mystery stories, this film may be used in discussion of the do's and don'ts of filmmaking.
UPPITY ALBERT McQUIRE. John Stern and Steve Adams. 10m. Color. An animated film that tells the story of Albert McQuire, a drifter who dares to bid against a millionaire known as Sid.
LUKE : A TRIBUTE TO FRED. Frank Eastes . 28m . Color. Documents a day in the life of Fred Wolfe, a brother of author Thomas Wolfe who immortalized Fred as Luke in LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL. The film by South Carolina filmmaker Frank Eastes deals with Fred 's loneliness in old age and his confusion about the "real " Fred and the fic tionalized one as past and present become less distinct.
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PROGRAM· 5 (Ages 9-12) * 51 minutes $25 UP AND DOWN THE SOO LOCKS BIGHORN GULLS AND BUOYS TCHOU TCHOU MORNING ZOO TUB FILM
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UP AND DOWN THE SOO LOCKS. William Blanchard . 6m . Color. Explorations by child and camera: a little boy pulling a toy steamship observes the barges as the camera accelerates the motion.
BIGHORN . Bill Schmaltz. 10m. Color. A non-narrated look at the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep from a newborn's first wobbling steps to majestic males in horn-clashing conflict.
GULLS AND BUOYS . Robert Breer. Bm. Color. Breer's captivating style provides animated pieces of places and moments from a holiday journey.
TCHOU TCHOU. Co Hoedeman. 15m. Color. A delightful animation constructed of children's building blocks that tells the story of two friends who are threatened by a ferocious dragon .
MORNING ZOO . Mark Michaels . 10m. Color. An early morning visit to the San Diego Zoo complete with baby elephants and lion cubs.
TUB FILM . Mary Beams. 2m . B&W. A bathtub vignette of a woman bathing while her mewing cat observes .
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PROGRAM 2 (Ages 4-8) * 51 minutes $25 PENCIL BOOKINGS MOTH LIGHT MONSIEUR POINTU THE GOLDEN FISH
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PENCIL BOOKLINGS . Kathy Rose. 14m. Color. Animator Kathy Rose joins her cast of characters including Miss Nose in a whimsical and lively work session.
MOTHLIGHT. Stan Brakhage. 4m . Color. A film of delicately patterned mothwings.
MONSIEUR POINTU. Bernard Longpre and Andre Leduc. 13m. Color. Camera tricks create the magic of a clown and his violin.
THE GOLDEN FISH. Edmund Sechan . 20m. Color. The story is set in Paris and stars a boy, a fish, a bird and tense moments when a cat intervenes.
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WIND . Ron Tunis. 10m. Color. Wind sounds delight a small boy in a fanciful tribute to the wind .
NIGHT PEOPLE'S DAY. Bob Kurtz. 11m. Color An amusing documentary about night workers. The sounds made by the machines are mimicked by human voices.
THE SAND CASTLE . Co Hoedeman . 13m. Color. From a windswept desert, an animated sandman emerges and st:lapes a community of creatures who build an elaborate sand castle .
THE CASE OF THE ELEVATOR DUCK. Joan Micklin Silver. 17m. Color. A boy, skillful as a detective, solves the mystery of a white duck found abandoned in the apart ment elevator.
Page 30 People Soup by Alan Arkin .
PROGRAM 4 (Ages 9-12) * 53 Minutes $25 LADY FISHBOURNE'S GUIDE TO BETTER TABLE MANNERS PEOPLE SOUP BRAVERMAN 'S CONDENSED CREAM OF BEATLES IZY BOUKIR
*Activity guide for each film included.
LADY FISHBOURNE 'S GUIDE TO BETTER TABLE MANNERS. Janet Perlman . 6m. Color. Colorful characters demonstrate embarrassing table manners while Lady Fishbourne explains correct dining room etiquette .
PEOPLE SOUP. Alan Arkin . 12m. Color. A funny and realistic sibling exchange between the Arkin kids, Matthew and Adam , as they concoct a magical soup.
BRAVERMAN'S CONDENSED CREAM OF BEATLES. Charles Braverman & Gary Rocklin . 15m. Color. A dynamic , driving portrait of the Beatles.
IZY BOUKIR . Nancy Graves . 20m . Color. Camels . Camels chewing . Camels walking. Camels drinking . Camels big and small.
Page 31 The Fable of He and She by Eliot Noyes , Jr.
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PROGRAM 1 (Ages 4-8) * 48 minutes $25 WALKING SPACEBOURNE POWERS OF TEN 1978 THE FABLE OF HE AND SHE RENDEVOUS
*Activity guide for each film included .
WALKING . Ryan Larkin. 5m . Color. An animation technique called rotoscoping produces this life-like walking study -- a visually stimulating film combined with an engaging jau soundtrack .
SPACEBOURNE . Philip Dauber, Tom Valens, Doug McKechnie . 14m. Color. A non-narrated documentary awesomely molded from actual NASA footage .
POWERS OF TEN-1978 . Charles and Ray Eames . 9m. Color. A breathtaking zoom from the edges of the Cosmos into the mysterious reaches of the human body.
THE FABLE OF HE AND SHE. Eliot Noyes , Jr. 11m. Color. A fable about the Hardybars and Mushamels who experience a disaster during the annual Om pah Day Celebration . RENDEVOUS . Claude Lelouch . 9m . Color. Filmmaker Lelouch secured a 35mm camera to the hood of his Ferrari and let the camera roll for nine continuous minutes for an exhilarating ride through the streets of Paris at dawn .
Page 32 Cockaboody by John & Faith Hubley.
PROGRAM 6 (Ages 9-12) * 47 minutes $25 AT THE MOVIES BEHIND THE SCENES AT PEKING CIRCUS BAD DOG BIRD COCKABOODY SUBWAY PEOPLE A BRAND NEW DAY
AT THE MOVIES . Carl Surges. 6m. Color. *Activity guide A hilarious clay animation of long-nosed characters settling into a movie theatre moments before for each film the film begins. included BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE PEKING CIRCUS . Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridans. 16m . Color. A non-narrated look at gymnasts, jugglers and tightrope walkers perfecting their skills for per formance with the Peking Circus.
BAD DOG. Eliot Noyes, Jr. 5m . Color. A film shot entirely from a dog 's point of view.
BIRD . Victor Bietzel. 5m. B&W. Scott Bartlett 's musical soundtrack combined with Bietzel's refined drawn-on film technique are a remarkable blend and tribute to a bird 's flight.
COCKABOODY . John & Faith Hubley . 9m . Color. The Hubleys recorded a dialogue between daughters Emily and Georgia, ages 3 and 5 and then produced an animated film that is as playful and unpredictable as the conversation bet ween the children.
SUBWAY PEOPLE Eloise Philpot. 2m. B&W. A fluid metamorphosis that plays with the faces and shapes of people on the subway .
A BRAND NEW DAY . Jane Aaron . 4m. Colo r. A woman stretches awake to greet an enchanting variety of mornings.
Page 33 ALABAMA DEPARTURE. Peter Bundy & Bryan Elsom. 12 AMERICAN SUPER 8 REVOLUTION. R. Stanley Woodward. 26 AMERICAN TIME CAPSULE, AN. Charles Braverman. 6 ANANSI THE SPIDER. Gerald McDermott. 19 ANIMATION PIE. Robert Bloomberg 24 AQUI SE LO HALLA (HERE YOU WILL FIND IT). Lee Sokol. 15 ARTIST AND THE COMPUTER, THE. Lillian Schwartz. 25 AT THE MOVIES. Carl Surges. 33 BAD DOG. Eliot Noyes, Jr. 33 BALLET ADAGIO. Norman Mclare. 16 BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA. Marv Newland . 20 BASIC FILM TERMS: A VISUAL DICTIONARY . Sheldon Renan. 25 BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE PEKING CIRCUS . Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridans . 33 BIGHORN. Bill Schmaltz. 28 BIRD. Victor Bietzel. 33 BOCCIONI 'S BIKE . Skip Battaglia. 7 BOLERO , THE . Allan Miller & William Fertik. 9 BORN FOR HARD LUCK: PEG LEG SAM JACKSON. Tom Davenport. 11 BOZO DAILY LIFE . Julien Bryan . 10 BRAND NEW DAY , A. Jane Aaron . 33 BRAVERMAN'S CONDENSED CREAM OF BEATLES . Charles Braverman 31 CASE OF THE ELEVATOR DUCK , THE . Joan Micklin Silver. 30 - ..'
CHARLESTON HOME MOVIE . Deanna Morse . 11 CLAY , ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES. Eliot Noyes , Jr. 24 CLAYMATION. Will Vinton . 24 CLOSED MONDAYS. Will Vinton . 18 COCKABOODY . John & Faith Hubley. 33 COMPOSITION IN BLUE . Oskar Fischinger. 7 CONCERT , THE . Julian & Claude Chagrin. 20 CONEY . Frank & Caroline Mouris . 6 CRITIC , THE. Ernest Pintoff. 20 DANCING LESSONS . Nancy Yasecko. 15 DOVE, THE . Coe , Davis & Lover. 20 ENA. David Audet. 15 EVERYTHING CHANGE UP NOW. Gretchen Robinson . 13 EYE HEARS AND THE EAR SEE , THE . Gavin Millar. 26 FABLE OF HE AND SHE , THE . Eliot Noyes , Jr. 32 FAMILY DREAM . Jan Millsapps . 3 FIVE IMPROVISATIONS. Paul Glabicki. 4 FOLLY BEACH JOURNAL . Jan Millsapps . 15 FRANK FILM . Frank Mouris. 2 FUJI. Robert Breer. 8 FULL FRAME ONE . Tom Whiteside. 15 FUR COAT CLUB , THE. Joan Micklin Silver. 22 FURIES . Sara Petty. 8 GLASS . Bert Haanstra . 9 GOLDEN FISH , THE . Edmund Sechan . 29 GULLS AND BUOYS. Robert Breer. 28 HALLELUJAH . Mark Henriksen . 8 HANSEL AND GRETEL: AN APPALACHIAN VERSION . Tom Davenport. 18 HEAD. George Griffin . 7 HEN HOP . Norman Mclaren . 6 HOMAGE TO MAGRITTE . Anita Thacher. 3 IT'S GRITS . R. Stanley Woodward . 14 IZY BOUKIR. Nancy Graves. 31 KUDZU. Marjie Short. 14 L'ACADIE: AN ALBUM OF 16rnrn EKTACHROME SKETCHES. Robert Russett . 15 LA JETTEE . Chris Marker. 17 LADY FISHBOURNE 'S GUIDE TO BETTER TABLE MANNERS. Janet Perlman . 31 LEGEND OF JOHN HENRY, THE. Nick Bosustow. 19 LET THE SPIRIT MOVE . Bill Gray. 12 LIGHT CORNER . W.A. Brown. 15 LUKE: A TRIBUTE TO FRED . Frank Eastes. 27 MAN WHO COULD NOT SEE FAR ENOUGH , THE . Peter Rose . 5
Page 34 MARBLE , THE. Jan Dank. 18 MAYBE NEXT WEEK SOMETIME. David Boatwright. 11 MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON. Maya Deren . 3 MILL HUNK HERALD. Tony Buba. 5 MINDSCAPE. Jacques Drouin. 17 MISSISSIPPI DELTA BLUES GIVE MY POOR HEART EASE . Bill Ferris, Jossette Rossi and Judy Peiser. 12 MOON BREATH BEAT. Lisze Bechtold. 3 MOMENTUM. Ray Day 2 MONSIEUR POINTU . Bernard Longpre & Andre Leduc . 29 MORNING ZOO. Mark Michaels. 28 MOTHLIGHT. Stan Brakhage 29 MURITA CYCLES. Barry Braverman . 5 MYSTERIANS, THE. Kathy Rose. 7 NATURE'S WAY. John Long & Elizabeth Barret. 10 NY, NY. Francis Thompson. 2 NIGHT PEOPLE 'S DAY . Bob Kurtz. 30 NIGHT OF THE MOLES . Jeff Sumerel. 27 NINE VARIATIONS ON A DANCE THEME . Hilary Harris. 16 OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE. Robert Enrico . 19 OLD BOX , AN. Paul Driessen . 7 PANDORA 'S BOX . Steve Segal. 6 PAS DE DEUX. Norman Mclaren. 16 PENCIL BOOKLINGS . Kathy Rose . 29 PEOPLE SOUP. Alan Arkin. 31 PEOPLE WHO TAKE UP SERPENTS , THE. Gretchen Robinson. 13
PLACE OF EMERGENCE. Paul Brekke. 4 POLAR. Peter Bundy. 2 POWERS OF TEN 1978. Charles and Ray Eames. 32 PRECIOUS METAL. David Ehrlich . 8 QUASI AT THE QUACKADERO. Sally Cruikshank. 7 RAIN. Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken . 9 RED BALL EXPRESS. Steve Segal. 6 RED BALLOON , THE . Albert Lamorisse. 23 RENDEVOUS. Claude Lelouch. 32 RHYTHMETRON. Dance Theatre of Harlem. 16 RIDE, THE. Gerald Potterton. 20 RUSSIAN ROOSTER. Steve Segal. 20 SAMADHI. Jordan Belson. 2 SAND CASTLE, THE. Co Hoedeman. 30 SOFT SAND. Nancy Yasecko. 3 SOLO . Mike Hoover. 22 SOMETIMES I RUN. Blaine Dunlap . 10 SOUND COLLECTOR, THE. Lynn Smith . 6 SPACEBOURNE. Philip Dauber, Tom Valens, Doug McKechnie . 32 STARCYCLE . Deanna Morse. 6 STREET, THE. Caroline Leaf. 8 SUBWAY PEOPLE. Eloise Philpot. 33 SWEET SAL. Tony Buba. 5 T IS FOR TUMBLEWEED . James A. Lebenthal. 23 TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND. Bruce r::onner. 17 TANGO. Zbigniew Rybczynski. 8 TCHOU TCHOU . Co Hoedeman. 28 TUB FILM. Mary Beams. 28 TWO SPACE. Larry Cuba. 8 UNDERSTANDING MOVIES. William Vanpraag. 25 UP AND DOWN THE SOD LOCKS. William Blanchard. 28 UP IS DOWN. Goldsholl Associates. 6 UPPITY ALBERT McGUIRE. John Stern and Steve Adams . 27 WALKING. Ryan Larkin. 32 WHY MAN CREATES . Saul Bass. 21 WILD GOOSE, THE. Bruce Cronin . 22 WIND. Ron Tunis. 30 WISHES, LIES AND DREAMS. Eric Breitbart and Alan Jacobs. 21 ZONES. Dan Curry. 4
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Booking
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