Preserved Film Movies

Daily Rains is a measured, poetic work that confronts head-on the micro- and macro-aggressions faced by young Black women. Restored by the Academy...

ROUNDS is a hand-painted film composed of a series of film loops printed in such a fashion that, while there is a feeling of repetitive familiarity,...

Made for Intercat '73, Pola Chapelle's Cat Film Festival in New York. In the early 70's, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle...

In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows...

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor tells the inspiring true story of history's first successful human-powered flight. Renowned inventor Dr. Paul...

Feature-length documentary film about the California counter-culture movement, which toured college campuses in various film festivals of the time. ...

Opens with a short canonical statement of a theme upon which the entire film is constructed. The canon is repeated in contrasting variations by means...

A dirge-like hula song illustrates humanity's woes. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Shots of city and country life come together to form an impressionistic whole. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

An animation (long before there were such things) for Oscar Brown Jr’s track “But I Was Cool”, from his 1961 debut album Sin &...

Documentary short film detailing the history of the American Women's Army Corps, the WACS. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film...

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

“In their starkly minimal film, The Awful Backlash, directors Robert Nelson and William Allan, focus solely on a pair of hands as they begin to...

An updated Technicolor followup to a black & white Broadway Brevity (1941) tour of the Morristown, New Jersey seeing eye dog training program. Much...

In Friendly Witness, Sonbert returned, after 20 years, to sound. In the first section of the film, he deftly edits a swirling montage of images -...

«CODES OF CONDUCT playfully upends the moral order by which man has historically seen fit to measure so called correct behaviour - by...

Two years before Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park (1971), director Penelope Spheeris takes the McCarran Act to its inevitable next step and shows...

Similar in style to First Film, Tamblyn filmed a journey to Rio. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

ca. 1975, 35mm, color, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

1975, b/w, sound, 3 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.