1998 Partnership Grants

Big Fella

(1937), American actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson's second feature made abroad (Library of Congress).

Bill's Bike

(1939), William Steuber's independently produced tale of a Wisconsin boy and his bike (Wisconsin Historical Society). Play film

Groucho Marx's Home Movies

(1929–1934), (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution).

Kearney and Its People in Motion Pictures

(1926), portrait of a Nebraska town, made as a public service by Universal Pictures (Nebraska State Historical Society).

Reunion of Confederate Veterans

(1930), former soldiers and slaves retell their Civil War experiences in outtakes from Fox Movietone News (University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections).

Thomas Collection

(1950s), Wall, Mississippi during segregation as seen by the owner of the gas station serving both the white and black communities (University of Mississippi, Southern Media Archive).

The Voice of the Violin

(1909), among the earliest D.W. Griffith one-reelers to survive with intertitles (George Eastman Museum).

World War Against Slums

(1934–1946), documentary by public housing crusader, Charles Forrest Palmer (Emory University).

Yale Class Reunions

(1920s-1940s), some of the earliest Ivy League reunions on film (Yale University Library).