A program introducing the NY Film Festival, which goes on to be one of the most significant world film festivals, brings together filmmakers Joseph Losey and Adolfas Mekas and festival organizers Richard Roud and Amos Vogel.
The unorthodox cosmological theories of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, in conversation with author Eric Larrabee. Velikovsky, who had by this time (1964) already become an enfant terrible in the academic world -- despite his advanced age and international reputation -- maintained that many things relegated to the distant past and the product of slow evolution had in fact occurred in historical times. Perhaps his most famous work was "Worlds in Collision", which reexamined the stories of the Bible and the folklores of many cultures, and coordinated them with catastrophic events in the solar system. His work also re-calibrates ancient Egyptian and Greek history. This interview is a very rare television appearance.
New York Times dance critic Walter Terry is the guide for this tour showing the American dancer's versatility. Dancers Rochelle Zide and Michael Maule demonstrate dance gymnastics and the development of the dance. Students Pamela Ladimer and Tony Catanzaro of New York City's High School of Performing Arts illustrate modern dance techniques.
Son House performs
Dr. Humphry Osmore, Director of Research at the N.J. Bureau of Neurology and Psychiatry, discusses new views of a expanded consciousness from biology to philosophy, animal behavior, Eastern therapy and psychedelIce with author John Bleibtreu.
Scenes from the hit Off-Broadway play, a dramatic profile of playwright Lorraine Hansberry.
Newsweek editor Jack Kroll talks with Susan Sontag and Agnes Varda who both are featured in this year's New York Film Festival. Excerpts from both of their films are presented.
A tribute to actor-director Buster Keaton with many film excerpts. Cinema historian Raymond Rohauer describes rescuing Keaton's early films from a garage and talking with him at the end of his life.
Italian mezzo-soprano Fiorenza Cossotto performs arias from Verdi's "Don Carlo," Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur ," Mascagni's "Cavalleris Rusticana" and Cherubini's "Medea."
The brilliant Scottish psychoanalyst R.D. Laing and avantgarde theater director Joseph Chaikin, head of an experimental group in New York, discuss personal freedom.
Sir Michael Tippett discusses his life and work as a composer-conductor in Great Britain.
To celebrate the 67th birthday of composer Samuel Barber a group of musicians gather at his home and perform selections of his work.
Francois Truffaut converses with Richard Roud, Director of the 15th New York Film Festival, for the American premier of his film "The Man Who Loved Women."
