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Three Paul Barnes* documentaries as found on the BFI disc 'Black Five: The Last Days of Steam'...

Black Five (1968/22 mins/UK) Directed, filmed and edited by Paul Barnes. Production company: BFI Production Board. (BFI SIFT Database link)
The Painter and the Engines (1967/21 mins/UK) Directed, filmed and edited by Paul Barnes. David Shepherd (not present on IMDb) as Himself. Corbett Woodall (present on IMDb) as Narrator. (SIFT)
King George V (1970/10 mins/UK) Director/Writer Paul Barnes. Production companies National Coal Board Film Unit and Bulmers of Hereford. Executive Producer/Writer/Narrator Francis Gysin (present on IMDb). Producer Robert Kruger (IV on IMDb). Photography Charles Hasler (not present). Editor Kitty Wood (present on IMdb). Sound Peter Handford (present on IMDb). (SIFT)

*Paul Barnes is present on the IMDb as Paul Barnes (V) - the director of Tanker (1971)

And a link to my DVD review confirming their presence on disc is here.

Missing titles from the Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde 1947-1988 boxed-set. Link here confirms contents.

Fake Fruit Factory (1986/22 mins/US) Dir. Chick Strand
Odds and Ends (1959/4 mins/US) Dir. Jane Conger Belson Shimane [BFI's SIFT entry gives the year as 1960.]
Peyote Queen (1965/9 mins/US) Dir. Storm de Hirsch
Aleph (1956-66?/8 mins/US) Dir. Wallace Berman
Note to Pati (1969/7 mins/US) Dir. Saul Levine [neither of the Levine's listed on the IMDb are the same as the director here.]
By Night With Torch and Spear (1940s?/8 mins/US) Dir. Joseph Cornell
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off (1967/8 mins/US) Dirs. Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley [who also appear in the film as Butch Babad and Dr. Otis Bird, respectively. Nelson is listed as Robert Nelson (II) on IMDb.]
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (1976/10 mins/US) Dir. Owen Land
Hamfat Asar (1965/13 mins/US) Dir. Lawrence Jordan [Jordan is listed as Larry Jordan (i) on IMDb.]
Bad Burns (1982/6 mins/US) Dir. Paul Sharits

Three shorts by Sally Potter as included on the BFI's release of The Gold Diggers. Their presence on the disc is confirmed at the BFI Filmstore.

Jerk (1969/2 mins/UK) b&w 8mm silent dir: Sally Potter
Play (1970/5 mins/UK) col and b&w 16mm silent dir: Sally Potter
hors d'oeuvres (1971/10 mins/UK) col and b&w 16mm silent dir: Sally Potter

(links added June 16)

Submitted June 10:
Jeff Keen ~
White Lite (1968, 3 mins)
Marvo Movie (1967, 5 mins)
Meatdaze (1968, 8 mins)
Rayday Film (1968-70, +1976, 13 mins)
24 Films (1972-1975, 18 mins)
The Cartoon Theater of Dr Gaz (1976-79, 14 mins)
White Dust (1972, 33 mins)
Mad Love (1978, 42 mins)

Sally Potter ~
Jerk (1969/2 mins/UK) b&w 8mm silent dir: Sally Potter
Play (1970/5 mins/UK) col and b&w 16mm silent dir: Sally Potter
hors d'oeuvres (1971/10 mins/UK) col and b&w 16mm silent dir: Sally Potter

pre-1920 streaming ~
Die Rose von Rhodesia / The Rose of Rhodesia (Harold Shaw, 1918, 81 min)


Submitted June 11:
Lumière ~
123 Chargement du coke
133 La Cannebière
149 Paris: Arc de triomphe
156 Paris, Mi-Carême: Char de la Reine des Reines
159 Lyon: Sauvetage de lapins
162 Entrée des Souverains russes et du Président de la République sous le hall
197 Alger: Prière du Muezzin
201 Rue Bab-Azoun
219 Panoptikum Friedrichstrasse
222 Inauguration


Submitted June 12:
Lumière ~
230 Vïeux quartier à l’Exposition
259 Arrivée des Toréadors
271 Budapest: Cortège de la Couronne
279 Monza: le Roi et la Reine d’Italie
282 Port et Vésuve
289 Danse des Ciocciari
293 Tramway sur le Grand Canal
300 Les Souverains et les Invités se rendant au sacre (escalier rouge)
307 St-Pétersbourg: Rue Tverskaïa
320 Arrivée du’n train à Bathery Place


On my current list of to-dos:
~210 Lumière
~37 Jeff Keen
Scum cast update
1 pre-1920 streaming
9 Korean shorts (requested last year by fiddlesticks, before I had access to a transliteration tool)
3 Paul Barnes
10 American avant-garde

The Slappiest Days of Our Lives as featured on the BFI's Penny Points to Paradise/Let's Go Crazy release.

1953, 35mm, b&w, UK, 76 mins
Producer: RA Bradford (not listed on IMDb)
Editor: Hilary Long (uncredited)
Narration: Peter Sellers and Graham Stark (both uncredited)
Starring (archive footage in all cases): Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Billy Bevan, Harry Pollard, Ben Turpin, Andy Clyde, Ralph Graves, George Moran, Charles Emmett Mack, Marjorie Beebe and Oliver Hardy.

sienel wrote:On my current list of to-dos:
9 Korean shorts (requested last year by fiddlesticks, before I had access to a transliteration tool)

Wow...thanks!

re: Slappiest Days of Our Lives - Everything I can find on the film says it's a French film that was subsequently dubbed over and edited for UK release. Do you have any info on that original French release - original title, production company, distributor etc?

Submitted June 16 (links added June 24):
Jeff Keen ~
Kino Pulveriso (1993, 1 min)
Kino Staccato (1999, 2 mins)
Omozap (1991, 1 min)
Omozap 2 (1991, 1 min)
Blatzom (1986, 12 mins)
Wail (1960, 5 mins)
Like The Time Is Now a.k.a Time Is Now (1961, 6 mins)
Breakout (1962, 11 mins)
Instant Cinema (1964-65 + 2007, 2 mins)
Flik Flak (1964-65, 3 mins)
The Pink Auto (1964, 21 mins, twin-screen)
Missing Close-ups (1964-65, 5 mins)
Day of the Arcane Light (1969, 14 mins)

Lumière ~
324 Descente des voyageurs du Pont de Brooklyn
329 New York: Whitehall Street
344 Défilé de la Garde nationale du District Colombia
351 Repas d’Indiens
369 Un enterrement
379 Bourricots sous les palmiers
381 Les Pyramides (Vue générale)
382 Descente de la Grande Pyramide
439 Cheval de haute école
677 Colleurs d’affiches
787 Barcelone: Panorama du port
863 Sortie de la Quadrille

(Came across two Lumière from the initial list that are already up on IMDb: 656 Bains en mer and 657 Douche après le bain.)


On my current list of to-dos:
~196 Lumière
~24 Jeff Keen
Scum cast update
1 pre-1920 streaming
9 Korean
3 Paul Barnes
10 American avant-garde
Slappiest Days of Our Lives

sienel wrote:re: Slappiest Days of Our Lives - Everything I can find on the film says it's a French film that was subsequently dubbed over and edited for UK release. Do you have any info on that original French release - original title, production company, distributor etc?

Apologies sienel, that's sloppiness on my part. Had I paid closer attention to the disc's booklet I would have been aware that the film in question is Ça c'est du cinéma from 1951. Frustratingly, however, I cannot find any confirmation of this online, despite many reviews/articles mentioning the French origins.

Missing titles from the Land of Promise set. Directors in brackets, other key credits in square brackets...

Shipyard (1935, Paul Rotha)
Workers and Jobs (1935, Arthur Elton)
Children at School (1937, Basil Wright) [producer: John Grierson]
To-Day We Live: A Film of Life in Britain (1937, Ruby Grierson & Ralph Bond (III)) [producer: Paul Rotha]
Eastern Valley (1937, Paul Rotha & Donald Alexander (II)) [producer: Stuart Legg]
Peace of Britain (1936, Paul Rotha)
If War Should Come (1939, no director credit) [production company: GPO Film Unit]
Tomorrow is Theirs (1940, James Carr (I)) [associate producer: Arthur Elton]
The Countrywomen (1941, John Page (I)) [associate producer: Paul Rotha]
Summer on the Farm (1943, Ralph Keene)
Builders (1942, Pat Jackson) [production company: Crown Film Unit]
Words and Actions (1943, Max Anderson) [producer: Edgar Anstey]
What a Life! (1948, Michael Law) [editor: John Krish, camera asst: Walter Lassally]
Britain Can Make It No. 1 (1946, Francis Gysin) [producer: Paul Rotha]
Children’s Charter (1945, Gerry Bryant - on IMDb as Gerald Bryant)
Five Towns (1947, Terry Bishop)
A Plan to Work On (1948, Kay Mander)
From the Ground Up (1950, Cyril Frankel) [production company: Crown Film Unit, producer: Stuart Legg]
Wealth of the World: Transport (1950, Peter Bradford (I))
John Grierson (1959, Hazel Wilkinson) [himself: John Grierson]

One more: featured as an extra on the BFI's Jean Painlevé compilation Science is Fiction.

Colour on the Thames (1935/UK) directed by Adrian Klein (II) SIFT

EDIT: And one of the Painlevé films is missing too: Mathusalem (1927/France, aka Methuselah). Painlevé directs and acts, alongside Artonin Artaud, whilst Maxime Jacob provided the score. SIFT

Submitted:
Scum: cast update
Ça c'est du cinéma / Slappiest Days of Our Lives: aka title and cast update

I think I'm going to be taking a break from submitting for a few weeks. Feel free to keep posting stuff here and I'll add to the list when I start up again.

On my current list of to-dos:
~196 Lumière
~24 Jeff Keen
1 pre-1920 streaming
9 Korean
3 Paul Barnes
10 American avant-garde
20 Land of Promise
1 Klein
1 Painlevé

Missing post from Aug 09:

Some more missing from recent, and less recent, BFI releases:

Ave You Got a Male Assistant Please Miss? (1973, Graham Jones, Jon Astley, 4 mins)
Blinded by Light (2000, Simon Pummell, 7 mins)
Blood Ah Goh Run (1982, Menelik Shabazz, 13 mins)
Chelsea Bridge Boys (1966, Peter Davis, Staffan Lamm, 28 mins)
Emma (1964, Anthony Perry, 15 mins)
Five Films (1967, Don Levy, 9 mins)
Kim Newman's Guide to the Flipside of British Cinema (2010, d. Jake West, 37 mins)
No Place to Hide (1959, Derrick Knight, 10 mins)
The Party (1962, R.A. Oswald, 15 mins)
Pub (1966, Peter Davis, 15 mins)
The Rocking Horse (1962, James Scott, 24 mins)
Strip (1966, Peter Davis, Staffan Lamm, Don Defina, 26 mins)
A Sunday in September (1961, James Hill, 28 mins)
Ten Thousand Talents (1960, Don Levy, 24 mins)
Time Is (1964, Don Levy, 29 mins)
Vibration (1975, d. Jane Arden & Jack Bond, 36 mins)

And Aug 14:

Missing titles from the BFI's Nighthawks/Strip Jack Naked set:

It's Ugly Head (1974, d. Ron Peck [credited as Ronald L. Peck], 13 mins)
On Allotments (1976, ds. Joanna Davis, Mary Pat Leece, Ron Peck [as Ronald L. Peck] & Wilfred Thust, 31 mins)
Edward Hopper (1981, d. Ron Peck - also writer and narrator, 47 mins)
The Last Biscuit (2005, ds. Paul Hallam & Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 26 mins)

Other recent suggestions made, recovered through Google cache:


Moonland (Neil McGuire & William A. O'Connor, 1926) - I see that this has already made it onto the IMDb.


The very short, about twenty seconds, Pluto propaganda A Feather in His Collar is missing. It can be found on the Walt Disney Treasures Rarities box.


Eurydice She, So Beloved (Quay Brothers, 2007, 11 mins)
Songs for Dead Children (Quay Brothers, 2003, 24 mins)

Both can be found on the BFI Blu-ray for Institute Benjamenta.

Update from Sienel on Aug 10 - which was updated again a few days later with another 30 submissions, but I can't seem to track it down...

Submitted Aug 10 2010
Moonland (1926, Neil McQuire & William A. O’Connor)
A Feather in His Collar (1946)
Eurydice She, So Beloved (2007, Brothers Quay)
Songs for Dead Children (2003, Brothers Quay)
Black Five (1968, Paul Barnes)
The Painter and the Engines (1967, Paul Barnes)
King George V (1970, Paul Barnes)



On my current list of to-dos:
~196 Lumière
~24 Jeff Keen
1 pre-1920 streaming
9 Korean
10 American avant-garde
20 Land of Promise
1 Klein
1 Painlevé
16 BFI shorts

Thanks guys - here's the complete list of titles I've submitted so far this month (links added Aug 23):

Submitted Aug 10 2010
Moonland (1926)
A Feather in His Collar (1946)
Eurydice She, So Beloved (2007)
Songs for Dead Children (2003)
Black Five (1968)
The Painter and the Engines (1967)
King George V (1970)


Submitted Aug 14 2010
Shipyard (1935)
Workers and Jobs (1935)
Children at School (1937)
To-Day We Live: A Film of Life in Britain (1937)

Blazomatika (1990)
Plazmatic Blatz (1991)
Artwar - the Last Frontier (1993)
Omozap in Artwar (1995)
Blazon Blatzom: El Pistolera Blatzo (1990)
Plasticator (1990)
Spontaneous Combustion (1980)
Return of Silver Head (1980)
Victory Thru Film Power(1980)
B-B-B Born and Life Storm (1990)
Pulverised Cinema(1990)
The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke(1984)
Joy Thru Film(2000)
Artwar Loop 1 (1990)
Artwar Loop 2(1990)
Omozap Terribelis+ Afterblatz 2 (2002)
Family Star (1969) (note: per note from IMDb I'll need to resubmit as two separate films)
Artwar Fallout + Artwar 3(1995)
Diary Films (1976) (note: per note from IMDb I'll need to resubmit as four separate films)

Mathusalem(1927)
Colour on the Thames(1935)

Fake Fruit Factory(1986)
Odds and Ends(1959)
Bad Burns(1982)
Peyote Queen(1965)
By Night with Torch and Spear(1942)


Submitted Aug 15 2010
Aleph(1966)
Note to Pati(1969)
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off(1967)
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops(1976)
Hamfat Asar(1965)

Eastern Valley(1937)
Peace of Britain (1936)
If War Should Come(1939)
Tomorrow is Theirs(1940)
The Countrywomen(1941)
Summer on the Farm(1943)
Builders(1942)
Words and Actions(1943)
What a Life!(1948)


On my current list of to-dos:
~196 Lumiere
1 pre-1920 streaming
9 Korean
7 Land of Promise
16 misc BFI
4 Nighthawks/Strip Jack Naked

Seeing as IMDb has asked for certain Jeff Keen titles to be resubmitted as more than one title, this may very well be the case with Don Levy's Five Films (mentioned as part of the various BFI missing entries above). See the SIFT entry for details as to what those five films were, and links to each.

Missing titles from the nine-volume British Transport Films releases from the BFI. Here's the first three volumes (with the rest to follow shortly)...

Volume One

Cybernetica (1972, 20 mins, d. Peter Sims)
A Day of One’s Own (1956, 20 mins, d. Kenneth Fairbairn)
The Diesel Train Driver: Part 1 - An Introduction (1959, 7 mins)
Rail 150 (1975, 14 mins, d. Ronald Craigen)
Rail Report 13: On Track for the Eighties (1980, 15 mins, d. John Legard)
This is York (1953, 20 mins, d. J.B. Holmes)
Train Time (1952, 28 mins, d. John Shearman)
Under the River (1959, 27 mins, d. R.K Neilson-Baxter)

Volume Two

Capital Visit (1955, 20 mins, Syd Sharples)
The Coasts of Clyde (1959, 20 mins, James Ritchie)
Cyclists Special (1955, 16 mins)
East Anglian Holiday (1954, 20 mins, Michael Clarke)
Glasgow Belongs to Me (1966, 17 mins, Edward McConnell)
The Heart is Highland (1952, 20 mins, John Taylor)
The Heart of England (1954, 20 mins, Michael Clarke)
A Letter for Wales (1960, 25 mins, Tony Thompson)
West Country Journey (1953, 26 mins, d. Syd Sharples)

Volume Three

Britannia - A Bridge (1973, 19 mins, d. David C. Lochner)
E for Experimental (1975, 20 mins, d. David Washbourne)
Farmer Moving South (1952, 17 mins, ds. John Taylor & Charles Delautour)
Fully Fitted Freight (1957, 21 mins, d. Ralph Keene)
A Future on the Rail (1957, 10 mins)
Groundwork for Progress (1959, 30 mins, d. Bill Mason)
I Am a Litter Basket (1959, 7 mins, d. James Ritchie)
Making Tracks (1956, 17 mins, d. Tony Thompson)
Modelling for the Future (1961, 8 mins)
Operation London Bridge (1975, 18 mins, ds. Norman Poulting & David C. Lochner)
People Like Us (1962, 9 mins)
The Third Sam (1962, 10 mins, d. Kenneth Fairbairn)
Wires Over the Border (1974, 18 mins, d. David C. Lochner)

The Miner's Campaign Tapes

The Miners’ Campaign Video Tapes: Not Just Tea and Sandwiches
The Miners’ Campaign Video Tapes: The Coal Board’s Butchery
The Miners’ Campaign Video Tapes: Solidarity
The Miners’ Campaign Video Tapes: Straight Speaking
The Miners’ Campaign Video Tapes: The Lie Machine
The Miners’ Campaign Video Tapes: Only Doing Their Job? The Police and the Miners

All were produced in 1984. No credits other than the production companies: Miners' Campaign Video Tapes, Birmingham Film and Video Workshop, Chapter Community Video Workshop, Platform Films, and Trade Films

One title from Edition Filmmuseum's John Cook set:

Ich schaff's einfach nimmer / I Just Can't Go On - Austria 1973 - Directed, written, photographed and produced by: John Cook - Edited by: Stefanie Schulz - Premiere: February 15, 1973 (Österreichisches Filmmuseum)

Submitted Sept 7 2010 (links added Sept 24):
Jeff Keen ~
Diary Films: Stolen Moments (1972), Lone Star (1975), Godzilla – Last of the Creatures (1976) and Rosa Canina (1970s)
Family Star: The Mutt & Jeff Icecream Sundae (1969), Mothman (1969)

Land of Promise
John Grierson (1959, Hazel Wilkinson)
From the Ground Up (1950, Cyril Frankel)
A Plan to Work On (1948, Kay Mander)
Five Towns (1947, Terry Bishop)
Children’s Charter (1945, Gerry Bryant)
Wealth of the World: Transport (1950, Peter Bradford (I))
Britain Can Make It No. 1 (1946, Francis Gysin)



On my current list of to-dos:
~196 Lumiere
1 pre-1920 streaming
9 Korean
20 misc BFI
4 Nighthawks/Strip Jack Naked
30 British Transport
6 Miner's Campaign
1 John Cook

Just noticed that Marcel Carné's date of birth was finally corrected from 1909 to 1906. Good stuff.

I guess it should be unsurprising that even a short as stellar as Robert Drew's Faces of November(1964) isn't listed. Just submitted it. We'll see how it goes.

I've previously been able to successfully submit minor changes to a film at least once or twice. Holy Christ is it a bitch for adding a completely new title to their site!

More missing entries from the BFI's British Transport Films' volumes...

Volume Four

Wash and Brush Up (1953, d. Michael Clarke)
A Place in the Team (1953, d. Tony Thompson)
Diesel Trainride (1959, d. James Ritchie)
Let’s Go to Birmingham (1962, d. Jack West)
Reshaping British Railways (1963, d. Edgar Anstey)
Forward to First Principles (1966, d. Edgar Anstey)
Freight and the City (1966, d. Bill Mason)
Second Nature (1967, d. James Ritchie)
The New Tradition (1968, d. Nick Nichols)
Plumb-Loco (1971)
This Year in Rail (1972, d. C. David Lochner)
Overture: One-Two-Five (1978, d. C. David Lochner)

Volume Five

Dodging the Column (1952, d. Michael Orrom)
Link Span (1956, d. Michael Clarke)
Every Valley (1957, d. Michael Clarke)
Giant Load (1958, d. Ronald Craigen)
Wild Highlands (1961, d. Ian Ferguson)
An Artist Looks at Churches (1959, d. John Taylor)
Age of Invention (1975, d. C. David Lochner)
The Seaspeed Express (1980, d. C. David Lochner)

From this month's BFI releases:

Because That Road is Trodden (1969, Tim King, 23 mins) as featured on Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.
Everyone's an Actor, Shakespeare Said (1968, Barney Platts-Mills, 30 mins) as featured on Bronco Bullfrog.
Stevenage (1971, Gordon Ruttan, 21 mins) as featured on Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.