(1929-30),
footage of the Frederick H. Rawson expedition to West Africa
(Field Museum).
Aratani Collection
(1926–40),
home movies by Setsuo Aratani, community leader and founder of the Guadulupe Produce Company in central California
(Japanese American National Museum).
Play film
Around the World
(1932),
films taken during sculptress Malvina Hoffman’s around-the-world expedition to prepare for her series “The Races of Mankind,” commissioned by the museum
(Field Museum).
Art of Shipbuilding
(1930),
five more segments of a 57-part training film produced by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company to demonstrate modern naval construction techniques.
(Mariners' Museum).
Burials
(1981),
conclusion of Allen Ross’s trilogy about his dying grandfather
(Chicago Filmmakers).
A Challenge Met, A Story in Preventive Medicine at Clemson College
(1963),
documentary on the public health importance of vaccination
(Clemson University).
(1960),
documentary about a citizen group’s civic improvement efforts
(Clemson University).
Construction of the New Long Island Jewish Hospital
(1952–53),
documentation of the building of the award-winning medical facility known for innovative features such as pneumatic tube communications and building-wide air conditioning
(North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System Foundation).
The Devil’s Cleavage
(1973),
George Kuchar’s camp feature made with his students at the San Francisco Art Institute
(Pacific Film Archive).
(1972),
Tony Conrad’s classroom project demonstrating the interplay of negative and positive in filmmaking
(Anthology Film Archives).
Films of the Mayo Clinic
(1926–1945),
documentation of anesthesiology, neurology, and internal medicine departments at the renowned clinic
(Mayo Clinic).
The Flicker
(1966),
Tony Conrad’s acclaimed experimental work constructed entirely of rapidly edited black-and-white frames
(Anthology Film Archives).
Florida Home Movies
(1927–41),
four amateur films of Palm Beach, the Everglades, hurricane devastation, and Miami’s Art Deco district before World War II
(Florida Moving Image Archives).
(1950s),
three films documenting the life of an American missionary family in Mozambique
(Emory University).
Glick Collection
(1939),
footage of the resettlement of European Jews in South America taken by the American representative of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).
(1957),
acclaimed International Film Foundation documentary on modern Japan
(New York Public Library).
Jesús T. Piñero
(1947),
portrait of the island’s first native-born Governor, filmed with the assistance of former Farm Security Administration photographers Jack Delano and Edwin Rosskam
(Archivo General de Puerto Rico).
Joan Crawford Home Movies
(1940–41; 1950s),
home movies capturing the Hollywood star with her children and on hunting trips
(George Eastman Museum).
Play film
The Johns Hopkins Medical Units: WWII
(1942-46),
footage documenting the wartime work of the university’s two civilian medical units serving the Pacific theater
(Johns Hopkins University).
(1941),
footage of Cherry Hospital, originally known as the North Carolina Asylum for the Colored Insane, shot by its superintendent
(Cherry Foundation).
Williams Collection: Part 1
(1933–34),
footage of the around-the-world trip of journalist and university president Walter Williams, filmed by his photojournalist wife Sara Lockwood Williams
(University of Missouri—Columbia).