Preserved Film Movies

"David Rimmer's film is at once a somber and celebratory meditation on time and place. Its title, 'Local Knowledge', is marine terminology for what a...

A film poem using found film and stock footage altered by printing, home development and solarization. It is a film using visual relationships to...

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...

"This hand drawn animated film is a tribute to my hands. It was produced between 1977-79 with the assistance of a grant from the Sinking Creek Film...

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

Strand spent over twenty years documenting her friend Anselmo Aguascalientes’ life, eventually creating a stunning trilogy of...

A joyous, chaotic and colorful romp through nature; A psychedelic dance troupe rehearses in a studio.

A stranger (Leo Willis) turns out to be a revenue agent and Texas' brother, Tom, turns him out. But when a gang of moonshiners captures the stranger,...

The film does not end, is never rewound, and each frame is seen twice in a single viewing: a palindrome illustrating the Chicago "elevated," the...

The basic image derives from a shot of women in (Edwardian era) dresses standing along the edge of the ocean. Within this eight-second loop, [Rimmer]...

Recurrent themes of violence, sex and TV commercials. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

1949 documentary short that won an Oscar in a tie with "So Much For So Little". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

“After wishing for years to be given the opportunity of filming some of the more “mystical” occupations of our Times – which...

This short on movie sound men starts with a short history of sound in the movies. We then see how the different jobs in the sound department...

Operation Vittles is a 1948 American short documentary film about the Berlin Airlift, from the initial closure of the city in 1948 through 1949. It...

NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures." Made on an Amiga...

Things coaxed into light in roughly the order they were encountered. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

This is a hand-painted work which involves a variety of colors applied within gouged and scratched shapes which approximate both swift shifts of...

Busy Little Bears is a 1939 American short family film directed by John A. Haeseler. The film follows three bear cubs are observed exploring the...

Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of contributed funds for the previous year. ...