1981 Movies

Here Come the Puppets! is a special that was taped for PBS during the 1980 World Puppetry Festival. Co-hosted by Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson, it fe...

A frightening vignette about violence and hatred in American society.

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Highlights from Le Mans 1981, capturing all the thrills, spills, and excitement of the event.

A video by Dale Hoyt

The last in Phil Munnoch aka Captain Zip's series of 8mm portraits of the London punk scene captures the movement in decline - and Chelsea's last gasp...

One frame experimental film by Dean Snider.

An Australian film shot on Super 8

Twelve minute film noir short from 1981. The director, Elliot Lavine, is Director of Repertory Programming for the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

A short mockumentary by art collective Die Tödliche Doris.

"these foolish truly chosen to confound the wise." D.S.

These were the first vivisection videos taken by an organization who wants to stop animal experiments. In 1981 Lifeforce Founder Peter Hamilton and ca...

This superbly animated science film traces the evolution of North America from the Earth's geophysical beginnings, through the genesis of the first li...

Super 8mm. Colour. Sound. 3 minutes.