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Alaska 49th State

(1959), panorama of Alaska's cultures and landscapes created by Fred and Sara Machetanz to celebrate statehood (University of Alaska Fairbanks).

Alaskan Constitutional Convention

(1955-56), behind-the-scenes footage, taken by delegate and professional photographer Steven McCutcheon (Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association).

Alex Stewart: Cooper

(1973), demonstration of the use of traditional tools in making wooden buckets and barrels (East Tennessee State University, Archives of Appalachia). Play film

Anselmo and the Women

(1986), Chick Strand's study of human relationships (Pacific Film Archive).

Around New York

(1949), Photo League member Edward Schwartz's documentary of daily life on New York's Lower East Side (Lower East Side Tenement Museum).

Autumn Spectrum

(1957), abstract film by Hy Hirsh (iotaCenter).

The Bill Wilson Story

(1952), educational short on juvenile delinquency made for Portland, Maine, social service agencies by local filmmaker James Petrie (Northeast Historic Film).

Blau Home Movies

(1930), rare surviving footage of Jewish family life in Berlin before Hitler's rise to power and the Blau's flight to America (National Center for Jewish Film).

Buckwheat

(1974), documentary short featuring celebrated storyteller Ray Hicks showing how to reap buckwheat, telling stories and playing harmonica (East Tennessee State University, Archives of Appalachia).

Buy at Home Campaign

(1937), locally produced film urging Enterprise, Oregon, citizens to "buy at home" for the economic health of the community (Wallowa County Museum).

Canyon Surveys

(1952–53), footage of river guide Harry Aleson and Batman illustrator Dick Sprang's southeast Utah expeditions (Utah State Historical Society).

Chasse des Touches

(1959), abstract film by Hy Hirsh (iotaCenter).

Come Closer

(1952), abstract film by Hy Hirsh (iotaCenter).

Commercial Sailing

(1921–35), four reels from the personal collection of maritime scholar Giles Tod showing the operation of fishing vessels and schooners during the waning years of commercial sailing (Peabody Essex Museum).

A Day on the Featherlane Farm

(1948), portrait of a New Jersey colony of Jewish chicken farmers by professional photographer Mortimer Goldman (National Center for Jewish Film).

Death and Transfiguration

(1961), abstract exploration of light and human form by Jim Davis (Anthology Film Archives).

Decollages Recolles

(1961), abstract film by Hy Hirsh (iotaCenter).

Defense d'Afficher

(1958), abstract film by Hy Hirsh (iotaCenter).

Divertissement Rococo

(1951), abstract film by Hy Hirsh (iotaCenter).

Eneri

(1953), abstract film by Hy Hirsh (iotaCenter).

Fantastic Dances

(1971), Jim Davis's transcendental meditation on man and the universe (Anthology Film Archives).

Fathomless

(1964), a signature work of experimental filmmaker, Jim Davis, capturing the energy of light in space (Anthology Film Archives).

Gandy Dancers

(1974), short documentary showing railroad men singing chants as they lay track (East Tennessee State University, Archives of Appalachia). Play film

Gyromorphosis

(1954), abstract film by Hy Hirsh (iotaCenter).

Hellbound Train

(1930), temperance film by African American filmmakers James and Eloise Gist (Library of Congress).

Hemingway Home Movies

(1955), color home movies of the famous writer taken by A. E. Hotchner in Cuba, and Ketchum, Idaho (Library of Congress).

The Hunters

(1957), acclaimed documentarian John Marshall's cinéma vérité study of a giraffe hunt in southern Africa (Documentary Educational Resources).

Hurrah for Light

(1972), Ralph Steiner's exploration of "what light can do to ordinary stuff" (Anthology Film Archives).

Kahn Family Films

(1928–34), home movies of the construction of the Chrysler Building, Port Authority, and other New York structures, by the owner of the Godwin Construction Company (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution).

A La Mode

(1958), Stan Vanderbeek's, rapidly edited, surreal collage animation, considered by the filmmaker as "an attire satire" (Anthology Film Archives).

The Light in the Dark

(1922), melodrama directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Hope Hampton, in which thief Lon Chaney steals the Holy Grail to heal a young accident victim (George Eastman Museum).

Light Years

(1987), meditation on distance, memory and change by Gunvor Nelson (Pacific Film Archive).

Lions International Convention of 1924

(1924), coverage by Nebraska filmmaker H.F. Chenoweth of the eighth annual Lions convention, held in Omaha (Nebraska State Historical Society).

Look Park

(1973–74), from Ralph Steiner's "Joy of Seeing" series (Anthology Film Archives).

Lytle Collection

(1938–41), home movies by Emma Knowlton Lytle of plantation life in the Mississippi Delta (University of Mississippi, Southern Media Archive).

Maine Marine Worm Industry

(1942), the secrets of the worm-digger's craft by amateur photographer Ivan Flye, founder of one of Maine's major sea-fishing bait businesses (Northeast Historic Film).

The Man in the Eiffel Tower

(1949), independently produced detective yarn from a George Simenon novel, directed by Burgess Meredith and featuring Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

Memories

(1959–98), tribute to Charles Boultenhouse uniting outtakes of the filmmaker's Henry James' Memories of Old New York with other footage, assembled by Stan Brakhage after Boultenhouse's death in 1996 (Anthology Film Archives).

Miami Area Architecture

(1929), amateur footage of local buildings, including Flamingo Park, the Biltmore Hotel, and the Nautilus Hotel (Florida Moving Image Archives).

Miami Beach is Calling You

(1941), travelogue produced by the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce (Florida Moving Image Archives).

Miami Home Movies

(1926), three early home movies depicting Miami Beach (Florida Moving Image Archives).

Native American Life

(1929), Fox Movietone newsreel outtakes showing Chief Two Guns White Calf (who posed for the "Buffalo Nickel") and Navajo and Hopi life in the Southwest (University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections).

Nebraska Home Movies

(1923–34), five home movies thought to be among the earliest to survive from the state (Nebraska State Historical Society).

New River Company Collection

(1940), two films documenting West Virginia coal mining operations and the adjacent communities (West Virginia State Archives).

Of These Our People

(1946), Samuel Brody's documentary of anti-Semitism in post-war America and plea for greater racial and ethnic understanding (National Center for Jewish Film).

Ojibwe Work

(1935–47), five films by amateur ethnologist Monroe Killy entitled: Chippewa Handicraft, Sugar Bush, The Moccasin, Wild Rice Harvest, and A'nicina'be: A Story of the Ojibway (Minnesota Historical Society).

Ott Blair: Sledmaker

(1973), demonstration of the craft of building wooden farm sleds (East Tennessee State University, Archives of Appalachia). Play film

Pennsylvania/Chicago/Illinois

(1957–59), landscape triptych photographed from a moving train by Jim Davis (Anthology Film Archives).

People's War

(1969), guerrilla documentary by John Douglas and the late Robert Kramer using footage taken during a trip to North Vietnam (Third World Newsreel).

Philippines Footage

(1930s), three ethnographic films by American businessman and amateur photographer Whipple S. Hall, including documentation of the peoples of Luzon (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution).

Requa Collection

(1935–37), footage by San Diego architect Richard Requa recording his work on the 1935-36 Panama California Exposition in Balboa Park (San Diego History Center).

RFD '38

(1938), newspaperman Robert D. Lusk's silent documentary on the recovery of a South Dakota farm from dustbowl conditions, created to complement his story in The Saturday Evening Post (South Dakota State University, South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum).

Rickenbacker Causeway Opening

(1947), amateur footage of the opening ceremonies of the bridge in Key Biscane (Florida Moving Image Archives).

San Diego Expositive Weekly News

(1916), locally produced newsreel of the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park (San Diego History Center).

Scratch Pad

(1960), abstract film by Hy Hirsh (iotaCenter).

Seymour Collection

(1926–34), five films by Major Lester D. Seymour chronicling the early years of commercial aviation (National Air And Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution).

A Tale of Two Worlds

(1948), fundraiser showing the international refugee assistance programs of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (National Center for Jewish Film).

Whitlock Collection

(1936–50), Lakota life and culture as documented by Rosebud Reservation superintendent C.R. Whitlock (South Dakota State University, South Dakota Art Museum).