2005 Partnership Grants

Arthur Piver Collection, Part 1

(1960–65), footage of the testing, construction, and launching of sailing vessels designed by the "Father of the Modern Multi-hull." (Mariners' Museum). Play film

Black Moderates and Black Militants

(1969), discussion between two African Americans—a Black Panther Party member and high school principal—on how to promote social change (Chicago Film Archives). Play film

Bobbie Louise Hawkins Collection: Part 2

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

The Chalk Line

(1916), one-reeler by the Vim Film Company, starring Rosemary Theby (George Eastman Museum).

Cicero March

(1966), film documenting an African American protest march through a white suburban neighborhood (Chicago Film Archives). Play film

Don Quixote

(1965), the only known film of the debut of George Balanchine’s Don Quixote, featuring the choreographer himself in the title role and Suzanne Farrell as Dulcinea (New York Public Library).

Helen Hoch Tupperware Films

(1959–62), home movies documenting Tupperware corporate culture from the eyes of a participant (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution).

Illinois Day

(1933), short documenting Illinois Day at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum).

Lewis E. Reisner Collection

(1929–38), home movies shot by aviation pioneer Lewis E. Reisner documenting aircraft manufacture and testing (National Air And Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution).

Little Red Riding Hood

(1978), artist Red Grooms’ comic retelling of the classic fairy tale (Film-Makers' Cooperative).

Miss Jesus Fries on Grill

(1972), Dorothy Wiley’s meditation on fate and human suffering (Pacific Film Archive).

Mountain Farmer

(1973), portrait of 82-year-old Lee Banks, among the last of Kentucky’s mountain farmers to live entirely on products from his own farm (Appalshop). Play film

The People’s Right to Know: Police Versus Reporters

(1968–69), Chicago Film Group’s look back at the confrontations between police and demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic National Convention (Chicago Film Archives). Play film

The Professor’s Painless Cure

(1915), Vitagraph comedy directed by and starring Sidney Drew (George Eastman Museum).

River Ghost

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

Strawberry Festival: Part 2

(1960), documentation of the Kashaya Pomo Strawberry Festival (University of California, Berkeley, Hearst Museum of Anthropology).

Tappy Toes

(1968–70), Red Grooms’ underground parody of the Hollywood backstage musical (Film-Makers' Cooperative).

The Whirled

(1956–63), sprawling four-part underground film by Ken Jacobs, his final collaboration with artist and provocateur Jack Smith (Anthology Film Archives).

Whitesburg Epic

(1971), profile of Whitesburg, Kentucky, made by local high school students (Appalshop). Play film

Williams Collection: Part 2

(1933–34), footage of the University presidency and around-the-world trip of Walter Williams, filmed by his photojournalist wife Sara Lockwood Williams (University of Missouri—Columbia).