Alexander Hammid

A solitary flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a phone off the hook: discordant images a woman sees as she comes home (imdb)

Documentary about cats

A powerfully physical rendering of the Oedipus myth. (Criterion)

This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to the city. The camera follows a detached protagonist on his wanderings, as his highly subjective journey becomes a fragmented visualization of urban landscapes. (Ubu)

This is a short art film which attempts to draw a correlation between music (composed by Frantisek Bartós) and architecture. In this case the subject is the Gothic architecture found at Prague Castle, built in the ninth century. (all-movie)

Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village. (imdb)

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2. (imdb)

Conductor Arturo Toscanini is shown at his home in New York City and leading tenor Jan Peerce and the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Verdi's "Hymn of the Nations" and "Overture to 'La Forza del Destino.' (imdb)

This is a documentary on the Library of Congress, its purpose and functions and its history and significance. (imdb)

U.S. Goverment film about the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s and 1940s.

A Better Tomorrow (1945) is a documentary short that focuses on New York City progressive public schools.

Post-World War II film for young couples advising them of means to strengthen their marriages. Shows how two young couples have built lasting marriages by a clear analysis of their mutual aims and cooperation in achieving them. One couple, university graduates, have many interests in common. The other couple, a business man and a teacher, center their mutual affection in their son. Designed to be used with a marriage text.

A disturbed 11-year-old boy gets into all sorts of trouble in school, but things come to a head when his teacher catches him stealing money out of her purse.

Married Mike Jackson and Virginia Chase seem to love each other, but are constantly arguing, leading to Mike storming out of the house. While there are many associated issues, the primary item of contention is that Ginny works outside of the house, they working together at a newspaper, he a copy writer and she a photographer, often on the same articles. Because Ginny wants to work for various reasons, each feels that he/she is forced to give up something in their marriage.

A number of young couples are at the marriage license office, each couple somewhat indistinguishable from each other to the clerk perhaps beyond each couple seemingly in love. But each person waiting in line is different from each other. Hopefully each person in that office has chosen the person to who he or she should be married as a certain personality characteristic that one person possesses may be something someone adores, but that would drive another person crazy.