2000 Partnership Grants

Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

(1968), Andrew Noren's vivid exploration of color, surface, and texture (Anthology Film Archives).

Airmail Service

(1926), newsreel footage of Charles Lindbergh as a young U.S. mail pilot, one year before achieving fame for his solo flight across the Atlantic (University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections).

Alba Novella e Ralph Pedi cantando il canzoni il gondoliere ed il tango della gelosia

(1935), Italian-language short by New Jersey's Rome Film Corporation, featuring two well-known Italian-American singers (George Eastman Museum).

Aloha R and R

(1966), Hawaii Visitors Bureau short showing servicemen from Vietnam meeting families at the airport (Bishop Museum).

Bayshore Round-Up

(1920), the Bayshore Amusement Park in its heyday, from the collection of the Baltimore Gas Light Company (Maryland Historical Society).

Film Club

(1970), documenting the programs of a Lower East Side community organization that opened 16mm filmmaking to Latino youths, made by one of the founders, Jaime Barrios (Film/Video Arts).

Golda Meir at Brandeis

(1973), work-in-progress preserving footage and sound of the Prime Minister's speech celebrating the 25th anniversaries of Brandeis and the state of Israel (Brandeis University).

Housing in Britain

(1942), film "memo" by Charles Forrest Palmer to President Roosevelt on the state of housing in wartime Great Britain (Emory University).

Howland Island

(1937), footage of the remote outpost (Bishop Museum).

Intimate Interviews: Bela Lugosi at Home

(1931), celebrity interview (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

Nene at Cloudbank Farm

(1955), footage of a captive breeding program that helped save Hawaii's state bird from extinction (Bishop Museum).

The Picturesque Susquehanna

(1928), celebration of the construction of the Conowingo Dam and Hydroelectric Plant, documenting the river from the Safe Harbor Electrical Plant to the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland Historical Society).

Prelude to Peace

(1943), film "memo" by Charles Forrest Palmer to President Roosevelt on the state of housing in wartime Great Britain (Emory University).

Punahou School Trip to Alaska

(1933), the expedition of twelve boys from Hawaii down the Yukon River, preserved from a 35mm nitrate print (Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association).

Punahou School, Waikiki

(1920s), home movie showing two sisters at school and swimming in the Ala Wai Canal (Bishop Museum).

Race Night Films

(1933), two slapstick shorts featured in "Race Night," a prize give-away series that lured audiences into theaters during the Depression (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

The Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia

(1940), footage from the National Zoological Park's collecting expedition, complementing personal papers and scrapbooks from Zoo Director William Mann and his wife (Smithsonian Institution Archives). Play film

Tomato's Another Day/It Never Happened

(1930), sound film by the American avant-garde pioneer James Sibley Watson, Jr. (George Eastman Museum). Play film