Preserved Film Movies

Regrettably, the labour of projectionists is usually only considered by the audience when they ‘screw up’. This film offers an...

One of the most shocking documentary films ever made. A young anti-war American, to avoid the draft, calmly aims a rifle at his foot and shoots. For...

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...

A continuous movement. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

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

United Nations, 1947 - In this film one crippled child learns to walk: first to move, then to stand, and finally to take his first steps. The film...

Mother Earth and Father Time converse about the choices humans make. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

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,...

Adopting its title from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, What’s Out Tonight Is Lost is an elegiac film sifting through the unrecoverable. The...

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

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

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 -...

A classic tale retold with Harryhausen's trademark animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Shooting in 1966 without script, story, or any narrative preconception, Nelson and Wiley created a masterwork of ‘60s independent cinema. The...

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

The prolific master Stan Brakhage's only exercise in found-object filmmaking. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

The Rehearsal is a 1969 short comedy, written and directed by Stephen F. Verona. It is a humorous short where a director becomes frustrated with a...