Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
We’re back again with another dose of 16mm celluloid curiosities – this time we’re throwing reason out the window and embracing the strange with a program of late 60s, early 70s groovy kids films that sought to open young minds to a world of imagination. In the late 1960s educational filmmakers started getting groovy and psychedelic with films that took a turn towards the far out and whimsical. While the educational standards of don’t do drugs or accept candy from strangers remained staples, a new form of creative “purposeless” films for kids started to emerge with Encyclopaedia Britannica and other educational film distributors. Weird, fun, and nonsensical, these pointless shorts encouraged creativity over morals, whimsy over shock, and through kid-focused stories and animation sought to foster the imagination with plenty of fun movie magic. This program features 5 Encyclopaedia Brittanica shorts from 1969 as well as two magnificent early short films from the great Joan Micklin Silver – ***The Case of the Elevator Duck** *(1974) and*** The Fur Coat Club*** (1973) both filled with undeniable glee for any age of cinephile, plus bonus shorts for the early birds! You may think you’ve outgrown children’s films, but give yourself over to the wonder of the grooviest period in educational film and let your imagination soar! Everything screened on 16mm film!