Preserved Film Movies

A found footage film that innocently plays with many of the elements I explore in my own work. A family's playful interaction with a 16mm sound movie...

Following Sonbert's death in 1995, we recovered a 16mm reversal print of THE TENTH LEGION among the materials in the filmmaker's estate, which...

Animated short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Optical printing pioneer Pat O’Neill uses “his skills in special effects production to extrapolate metaphysical meaning from the...

Background is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. ...

White Rhapsody is a 1945 short film directed by Jack Eaton, with Ted Husing narrating. The film explores the popular sport of skiing. It was...

Mister Mugg is a 1933 short American pre-Code comedy film directed by James W. Horne. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 6th Academy Awards...

An Oscar Nominated short film about the adventures of a red pair of legs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

The fourth film by a member of the '2nd generation' of computer filmmakers, artists who do their own programming. Abstract imagery includes some hand...

The mechanized production of Duro-Test light bulbs is filmed as a dance to the tune of the Brandenburg, as choreographed filaments, glass, and metal...

A psychedelic tour de force of animation and time drawing, involving the work of seven artists. A major portion of the drawing was done under the...

Decollages Recolles is a mystery as it is unfinished, with no indication of the track Hirsh intended. We had two reels, each with a head title, but...

Film of "Dropped Objects" falling from 8,000 ft. altitudes with skydivers as performers. This film of a conceptual artist's work is a document of...

The Story of Koula, one of the Marshall Plan films, was made in Greece in 1951. It neatly exemplifies the capacity of Europe to...

An animated short consisting of 4 segments: bowl, garden, theatre, marble game. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Harvard...

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. The film melds still photos, Hollywood film, television footage, and speeches...

"Picture Without Sound is a film composed of variations on three basic shots that are organized in a pattern signified by the notation...

This film is composed of 4 sections, corresponding to the four directions radiating out from a single house. They are as follows: 1 - daytime, facing...

The original camera footage for STASIS is an 8-minute, 8:1 camera zoom. That footage was then printed with an equal but complimentary optical zoom...

This U.S. Navy documentary depicts the sea battle at Leyte Gulf during the Allied landings at Mindoro in the Phillipines during World War II. During...