Pyramid Films

Photos, animation, and music illustrate the story of the Beatles.

Delilah Miller is looking for an anchor in her life. She starts a romance with rock musician Ryland Yale, but soon it shows he can not be such an anchor - he's possessive, undependable and even a heroin addict.

A television documentary on the life and career of British film director David Lean. Scenes of Lean directing are intercut with personal interviews in which the director explains his methods, the beginnings of his career, and his relationships with actors and actresses.

John Carradine narrates the Washington Irving story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.

Explores the visual art of Saul Bass and his contributions to film credits.

The animated adventures of twins Dan and Darlene, who spend their time dodging the innumerable adult predators in their city.

A short educational Claymation film about dinosaurs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

A non-narrated view of the sport of kayaking. Slow-motion sequences with men and kayaks twisting through rolling rapids and gliding over placid lakes are intercut in this film to capture the excitement and beauty of the sport. The film is not designed to teach skills. - acmi.net

A wild, freewheeling spoof on motorcycle gangs in which tough-looking cyclists, who roam the highways on invisible bikes leaving visible tire tracks, pick up a girl hitchhiker encounter another gang.

Kudzu, or Pueraria Thunbergiana, is a vine threatening to take over large portions of the Southern landscape. Imported from Japan by the Departement of Agriculture in the 30's for erosion control, its spreading growth has become a problem of menacing proportions. Kudzu is an off-beat, witty, informative documentary about the vine that is devouring the South. Featuring the Kudzu Queen, the Kudzu rock band, a cast of real-life characters and an appearance by former President Jimmy Carter, it illustrates how Southern cultural traditions have quickly grown up around a botanical pest. The eminent American poet and novelist James Dickey ("Deliverance"), recites three stanzas of his poem, "Kudzu."

The folk legend of John Henry, and his contest with a steam engine to cut a railroad tunnel through a mountain, is told in song by Roberta Flack.

A protest film, reminiscent in part of the famous Picasso painting entitled "Guernica". Expressed in child-like Crayola drawings.

Examines some of the present-day practices of Satan worship and the cults of black magic.

A film about Arthur and Lillie Mayer, 89 and 86 years old and still young. Arthur can remember being taken to the first movie show in America, in 1895; Lillie was among the first American suffragettes. Arthur Mayer reminisces about his famous publicity stunts for Paramount, his Broadway horror film theatre, and beginning the importation of great European films with Rossellini's Open City. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Goodnight Miss Ann is a 1978 American short documentary film directed by August Cinquegrana. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Frank Darrow of the Wenatchee Youth Circus, applies his makeup for a show

A 9-month construction of a 20-story office building, from ground level to completion, is depicted in this film with the use of stop-motion photography. Effects of whisking clouds, sky moods, moving traffic and the rapid rise of girders, concrete and glass work against a frenetic moving crane. A burst of music from Richard Strauss, used by director Stanley Kubrick in 2001: Space Odyssey ironically underlines that another "monolith" is completed.

Windsurfing's high performance skills are filmed in this display of action camera techniques, from underwater and mast-tops, with cameras mounted on helmets, etc. The first 360 degree somersaults, the largest waves ever windsurfed, and the world's leading windsurfers are featured.

The experiences of a young girl help to focus attention on some psycho-social aspects of the venereal disease problem. Written and directed by Rolf Forsberg (maker of Parable, Stalked, Ark, One Friday).