2005 Federal Grants

Akiyama Collection

(ca. 1935), home movies by Issei businessman Masao Akiyama (Japanese American National Museum). Play film

America

(1969), anti-war film protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam (Third World Newsreel).

Asamblea, Los beneficiaros, Inaguración, Visita importante

(1954–70), four shorts from the Puerto Rican government agency that prepared immigrants for life in America (Hunter College, CUNY).

The Awakening

(1932), amateur narrative about a young woman’s infatuation for a suspicious newcomer (Northeast Historic Film).

Baltimore: City of Charm and Tradition

(1939), promotional travelogue narrated by Lowell Thomas (Maryland Historical Society).

Beehive

(1985), Frank Moore and Jim Self’s Lower East Side experimental dance film (New York University).

B.F. “Bem” Jackson Collection

(1954–57), town portraits of Cleveland and Indianola, made for local movie audiences (Mississippi Department of Archives and History).

Bobbie Louise Hawkins Collection: Part 1

(1959–75), home movies of the avant-garde artists, writers, and musicians visiting Hawkins and her husband Robert Creeley (Naropa University).

Bridge High

(1970), Manny Kirchheimer’s lyrical portrait of the George Washington Bridge (New York Public Library).

Buffalo Creek Revisited

(1984), Mimi Pickering’s reexamination of the devastated community documented in her 1975 film Buffalo Creek Flood (Appalshop). Play film

A Canyon Voyage

(1955), environmentalist Charles Eggert’s 16mm cinemascope documentary of the Green and Colorado River canyons just before their flooding by the Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon dams (University of Utah, Multimedia Archives).

Captain Hughes Trip to New Orleans

(1936), footage shot by the veteran riverboat captain en route to Marti Gras (West Virginia State Archives).

Cayuga Run

(1967), landscape film of the Hudson Valley by Storm de Hirsch (Anthology Film Archives).

Claw

(1968), Manny Kirchheimer’s documentary of the destruction of a midtown Manhattan building (New York Public Library).

Community Sanitation in New Mexico

(1936), film documenting the efforts by the Works Progress Administration and the Department of Health to curb the spread of typhoid fever (New Mexico State Records Center and Archives).

The Crime of Carelessness

(1912), Edison short commissioned by the National Association of Manufacturers to rebut public criticism after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Museum of Modern Art).

Dong Tam Base Camp

(1967), raw footage by Army cameraman William Foulke (Texas Tech University).

Experimental Studies in the Social Climates of Groups

(1938–40), research film by social psychologist Kurt Lewin (University of Iowa).

Eyes of Science

(1930), industrial film by James Sibley Watson, Jr., about the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (George Eastman Museum). Play film

Fairy Princess

(1956), stop-motion animation by award-winning amateur filmmaker Margaret Conneely (Chicago Film Archives). Play film

Five Films by Dion Vigne

(1957–64), fragments and footage by a recently rediscovered member of the Bay Area underground film scene (Pacific Film Archive).

Florence Griswold Collection

(1930s), footage of the art colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut (Florence Griswold Museum).

Florida Zoological Attractions

(1958), footage by an employee of the Miami Seaquarium (Florida Moving Image Archives).

Four Films by E.S. Taylor

(1958–68), films created with the “lucitron,” the specialized optical projector invented by Taylor, as well as documentation of the North Beach art scene (Pacific Film Archive).

Georgia Warm Springs Collection

(1930s), three films from the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Hospital showing the activities of the therapeutic facility and its most famous polio patient, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation).

Gilbreth Collection

(1920s), three pioneering research films by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, the industrial efficiency and motion study experts (Purdue University).

Grays Harbor County

(ca. 1925–33), a series of community portraits of coastal Washington shot on 35mm by a local photography studio (University of Washington). Play film

Guger's Landing

(1971), landscape film of the Hudson Valley by Storm de Hirsch (Anthology Film Archives).

Historic Views of Mountain City

(1940), H. Lee Waters’ town portraits Mountain City and Shouns, Tennessee (East Tennessee State University, Archives of Appalachia).

Hudson River Diary at Gradiew

(ca. 1970), landscape film of the Hudson Valley by Storm de Hirsch (Anthology Film Archives).

In the Usual Way

(1933), amateur filmmaker Isaac Higginbotham’s tale of summer love (Northeast Historic Film).

Josef Albers at Home

(1968–69), intimate look at the artist at 80, filmed by student Sedat Pakay (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation).

Josef Albers at Yale

(1954), documentary by John Cohen showing Albers in the classroom (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation). Play film

Kaliska-Greenblatt Collection

(1920s–30s), home movies showing Atlanta’s first Jewish country club, the carving of Stone Mountain, and the University of Georgia (University of Georgia). Play film

The Kidnapper’s Foil

(ca. 1930), itinerant filmmaker Melton Barker’s production of his Our Gang–inspired script made with the townspeople of Childress, Texas (Texas Archive of the Moving Image). Play film

Kiyama Collection

(ca. 1935), home movies by the owner of the 7th Street Produce Market in Los Angeles (Japanese American National Museum). Play film

Kol Nidre

(1930s), sound short of celebrated cantor Adolph Katchko (National Center for Jewish Film).

Labor’s Reward

(1925), only surviving fragment of an American Federation of Labor drama about the benefits of unionization (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

Louis C. Harris Collection

(1947–53), home movies by reporter Louis C. Harris documenting life in Augusta and a 1953 atomic bomb test (University of Georgia). Play film

Malaria in New Mexico

(1935), educational film highlighting the latest methods in malaria prevention (New Mexico State Records Center and Archives).

Materials Carried in the New Mexico Public Health Nurse’s Bag

(1937), demonstration showing how a public health nurse puts the tools in her home bag to good use in the field (New Mexico State Records Center and Archives).

Night Journey

(1973), film of a Martha Graham dance rehearsal at Lake Placid, New York (New York Public Library).

Oshamnu Mikol Om

(1930s), sound short of cantor David Roitman (National Center for Jewish Film).

President Kennedy at the Orange Bowl

(1963), amateur footage from South Florida (Florida Moving Image Archives).

Primitive Mysteries

(1964), performance of a Martha Graham dance featuring Yuriko (New York Public Library).

The Ranger’s Bride

(1910), one-reel Western starring Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson (George Eastman Museum).

Sanitary Improvements in New Mexico

(1937), documentation of the improvements made to water and sewage systems throughout the state (New Mexico State Records Center and Archives).

Serene Velocity

(1970), Ernie Gehr’s landmark avant-garde study (Museum of Modern Art).

Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright

(1952-61), footage documenting the architect’s first New York exhibition and the construction of the Guggenheim Museum (Guggenheim Museum).

Strawberry Festival: Part 1

(1960), documentation from the American Indian Film Project of the Kashaya Pomo Strawberry Festival (University of California, Berkeley, Hearst Museum of Anthropology).

Travels with the Tennessee Tweetsie

(1940–51), five films by railroad enthusiasts Jack Alexander and Vince Ryan (East Tennessee State University, Archives of Appalachia).

Vigil of Motana

(1914), Edward S. Curtis’s legendary feature shot among the Kwakiutls of Vancouver Island (Field Museum).

Walter Link Collection

(1928–34), footage from the Dutch East Indies taken by Standard Oil geologist Walter Link (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution).

A Well Baby Home Visit

(1937), demonstration of the procedures of a nurse making a home visit (New Mexico State Records Center and Archives).

William Levi Dawson Collection, Part 1

(1952–54), two home movies from the collection of the founder of the Tuskegee School of Music (Emory University).

Wintergarden

(1973), landscape film of the Hudson Valley by Storm de Hirsch (Anthology Film Archives).

Yamada Collection

(ca. 1930s and 1950s), home movies of the wedding of Tsuneko Kato and Yaju Yamada and their silver anniversary party twenty-five years later (Japanese American National Museum). Play film

Yippie

(1968), Youth International Party’s biting critique of the 1968 Democratic convention (Third World Newsreel).