Mickey's Covered Wagon

Adventuring in the Arts Adventuring in the Arts (1956) Sponsor: Girl Scouts of America. Production Co.: Unknown. Director/Editor: Sidney Meyers. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 22 minutes. Film produced for Girl Scout leaders that shows ways in which adults can encourage children to be creative in an age of standardization. After a troop spends an afternoon at a county fair, the scouts use drawing, painting, and sculpture to describe what they have seen. Howard Thompson called Adventuring in the Arts a “fine, off-beat little picture that does everyone concerned proud.” Note: Produced in Anscocolor. Resources “New Girl Scout Film Inspires Creative Art,” New York Times, Apr. 19, 1956, 48; Howard Thompson, “Newcomers to the 16mm Film Field,” New York Times, June 10, 1956, 125.

Sweater After facing multiple rejections, Tuku agrees to learn knitting at the insistence of a prospective mother-in-law, only to rediscover her life and relationships.

Campaign A human-interest account of the grass roots political campaign of a woman, Cathy O'Neill who is running for California State senator. Designed to stimulate enthusiasm for participation in the electoral process. Distributed by Churchill Films, 1973.

Ali Konkouri "Ali," who must become a doctor according to his mother's wishes, participates in the entrance exam year after year against his own will and fails each time. Eventually, he decides to find a way to escape this situation and marry his ideal girl. So, he pretends to be insane. Although this stops him from becoming a doctor, it leads to the girl's father opposing Ali's marriage. Feeling hopeless and exhausted, Ali eventually meets a woman who also catches his father's attention. The father uses various tricks to keep him away from home so that he can marry the woman himself.

Ferdinando, Man of Love In a southern villa after the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies live Donna Clotilde and Donna Gesualda. The first is a Bourbon baroness who rejects the new world and the Italian language. The other is the poor relative with duties as a maid. Apart from the village priest, they see no one. Then her nephew Ferdinando arrives at the villa, young, handsome, and squirming.

Seinjoen Arabikevt... Arab asylum seekers changes the lives of many people in Seinäjoki.

Catharsis A man returns to his childhood home to confront his past.

Steal America A Swiss tourist named Stella meets Christophe, a French drifter, on a Greyhound bus traveling from Chicago to San Francisco. Settling in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Stella and Christophe develop a sexual relationship. In time, she gets a job as a cashier in a postcard shop, while he parks cars at an expensive restaurant. Stella dreams of going to Japan and singing in clubs, while Christophe wants to explore “the Wild West” he imagines from the American movies of his childhood. The couple befriends Maria, a bisexual Italian immigrant who works in the kitchen at Christophe’s restaurant. In their spare time, the three foreigners complain about their low-wage jobs, criticize Americans, and dream of going someplace else. After Christophe is fired from his valet job, an incoming customer hands him the keys to his car. Christophe takes the vehicle and convinces Stella and Maria to flee with him to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the trio embarks on a new adventure.

Sea, Oh Sea! The story of young men and women on vacation. They are constantly separated by various circumstances, including the fantastic and phantasmagoric ones, but at the end, they finally marry. Oh, more, more! parodies Soviet popular culture, i.e. popular music (Italian song "Amore-more-more..."), sugary wedding photos and souvenirs, the maniacal hunt for foreign brands and clothes (such as jeans), primitive Soviet pornography, and the cult of material prosperity.

Hearing Voices A beautiful but self-conscious model (due to her own perceptions of being imperfect due to the multiple operations she's had since childhood) falls in love with a gay man who happens to be her doctor's lover. He falls for her and they must find if they can have a life together in the complexity of their relationship.