John Korty Movies

Based on Suzanne Somer's autobiography, the film tells of her troubled childhood, her affairs, her abortion and her arrest for writing bad cheques...

A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.

A highly-critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American...

Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most...

A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy...

A John Korty Cartoon

This documentary film comprises of interviews with five Vietnam War veterans in 1982 in prison for violent crimes committed after leaving the...

A man tries to record a crocodile eating crisp crackers, but he doesn’t hear the cracker sound twice. So he decides to go in the crocodile's...

A fascinating insight into the life and works of photographer Imogen Cunningham. Coming into public attention around 1910, she was celebrated in the...

A young unmarried couple leave the politically turbulent Berkeley behind for a life in the country. Finding a place in sheep country, the couple...

Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together.

A film version of Edward Lear's narrative poem about the owl and the pussycat who went to sea in a pea-green boat

A scrapbook is filled with pictures of "You."

Two people think they hear a BARK in the DARK.

Pacifist plea sponsored by a Quaker group. To a voice-over commentary describing the arms race, Language of Faces presents a montage of human faces...

An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.

A purple/red figure plays around with a typewriter, until he stubs his toe with the letter T on it.

The letter Q keeps the rest of her word QUIET in silence.

Pat talks about the letter P.

Two smokestacks comment on the smog and how nobody smiles.