Swallow the Leader (1949)

“Aleph” is an artist’s meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics, and pop culture. In an eight-minute loop of film, Wallace Berman uses Hebrew letters to frame a hypnotic, rapid-fire montage that captures the go-go energy of the 1960s. Aleph includes stills of collages created using a Verifax machine, Eastman Kodak’s precursor to the photocopier. These collages depict a hand-held radio that seems to broadcast or receive popular and esoteric icons. Signs, symbols, and diverse mass-media images (e.g., Flash Gordon, John F. Kennedy, Mick Jagger) flow like a deck of tarot cards, infinitely shuffled in order that the viewer may construct his or her own set of personal interpretations. The transistor radio, the most ubiquitous portable form of mass communication in the 1960s, exemplifies the democratic potential of electronic culture and may serve as a metaphor for Jewish mysticism.

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in this philosophical film-poem.

Poetic essay about the beginning of life from labor pains and birth and about its symbolic meaning.

Peleshian transforms footage from a train ride into a metaphor for the shape of a life. Early images of faces on the train give way to landscape, a journey through a black tunnel, and a final emergence into pure white light.

An elliptical, pictographic animated film that uses flat, painted figures and collage elements in both two and three dimensional settings to explore the realms of memory, language and identity from the point of view of a woman amnesiac.

Mickey comienza a soñar con casarse con Minnie y tener veinte hijos. Pronto el plácido sueño se convierte en una terrible pesadilla.

De viaje por África, Mickey y Pluto son capturados por una tribu de caníbales que tienen como objetivo comérselos.

In the circus, Betty Boop is the lion tamer, sings title tune on the high wire, and fights off the lecherous ringmaster.

Mickey es un pianista en un bar en mitad de la nieve. En el exterior, Minnie llega exhausta hasta que Mickey la rescata, pero el malvado Pete secuestra a Minnie, y Mickey y Pluto tendrán que ir a su rescate.

Los Mickey's Manglers obtienen un par de touchdowns en el último trimestre y empatan el juego de fútbol con los Alley Cats, 96 a 96. ¿Puede Mickey anotar el touchdown ganador en el último segundo?

Mickey Mouse es el director de una orquesta, mientras el resto de personajes Disney danzan o tocan sus instrumentos como bien pueden. Primera aparición de Goofy.

Mickey y sus amigos organizan unas olimpiadas en una granja. El evento principal es una competición de tetratlón, pero Mickey empieza tarde por culpa de las trampas de Pete.

An old man is reading a book by the fire. The clock strikes 8, and he heads off to bed. From his book, Alice in Wonderland, out crawls Alice, who turns the radio to the title tune. This wakes up Rip Van Winkle; Alice then rouses the Three Musketeers, who sing a bit. Next tune: Nero fiddles, Rome burns, and Cleopatra sizzles in a slinky dance. Uncle Tom sings a spiritual as Mr. Hyde sneaks up and abducts Alice. Tarzan to the rescue, along with several other characters who mount a spirited attack using such office supplies as pen points, matches, and a fountain pen. They box him up and carry him off.

Es el día del baño de Pluto, pero accidentalmente se tragará el jabón mientras Mickey lo lava. Pluto correrá por el pueblo con espuma del jabón en su hocico, por lo que los lugareños llaman a la perrera asustados por si el perro tiene la rabia.

A sinking ship leaves three survivors on a life raft: Bimbo, Koko and Betty Boop. Good news/bad news: they're rescued by a pirate ship…

Mickey hace todas sus tareas cantando.

In a European seaside village, a maiden takes clean sheets down from the clothesline. Carrying her basket of linens home, she stops to consult a fortune teller. The cartomancienne sees love in the cards. The young woman pauses to reflect. We then see water, swirling, and into view swims a man, as if just appearing on earth. He arrives on shore - is he just in her mind's eye, or is he real? She weaves a garland for her hair. Will they meet?

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

Plotless musical revue celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration.