How Silicon Valley envisions the future in 1967

In retrospect, it usually seems rather funny how people once imagined their future. In contrast, the film A.D. 1999, made in 1967, shows an astonishing technological vision. It accurately predicts the future […]

Buchenwald Concentration Camp

The Buchenwald concentration camp had been reached by US troops on 11 April 1945. The film was shot 5 days later, on 16 April 1945. The US army had brought a selected group of Weimar citizens to […]

Summer of Love 1967

“If you’re going to San Francisco…” Scott McKenzie’s song conquered the charts all over the world in 1967. The birth of Flower Power. The song was also played on German radio day […]

The filmmaker Shirley Clarke and the EXPO of 1958 New York City born Shirley Clarke was originally a dancer. She studied with Martha Graham and worked with Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey and

The Nolde Debate

Emil Nolde is one of the most important German expressionists. Although he was a member of the Danish NS party, he was denounced by the Nazis as a “degenerate artist” in 1937. But Nolde was a Nazi […]

Richard Strauss 1945.

The story of a never shown film role Richard Strauss shows in his garden. The visits of Klaus Mann and William Wyler to Garmisch in 1945. The great old master of European classicism and his […]

A Computer Glossary

The film “A Computer Glossary” was produced in 1968 for the IBM Pavilion at the San Antonio World Exposition. It shows the functioning of a computer, the information machine, with funny and instructive graphic animations. Ray and […]