2007 Partnership Grants

Alexander Black Films

(1923-28), five films by Alexander Black, the amateur magic lanternist and “picture play” innovator (Pacific Film Archive).

Alexander Black: Grandfather of Picture Plays

(1946), compilation incorporating footage from a 1919 Paramount Screen Magazine celebrating the 25th anniversary of the motion picture (Pacific Film Archive).

City City

(1974), Duane Kubo’s experimental documentary celebrating the culture diversity of Los Angeles (Visual Communications).

Flowers for Rosie

(1923), amateur film that premiered at the press conference announcing Kodak’s introduction of 16mm (George Eastman Museum).

Harry Webb Marsh Collection, Part 1

(1926–30), three films documenting mining in Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene region (University of Idaho). Play film

I Told You So

(1974), Alan Kondo’s profile of Japanese American poet Lawson Inada (Visual Communications).

The Lead Shoes

(1949), Sidney Peterson’s landmark surrealist film (Anthology Film Archives).

Mr. Frenhoffer and the Minotaur

(1949), Sidney Peterson’s stream-of-consciousness adaptation of Honoré Balzac’s Le Chef d’Ouvre Inconnu (Anthology Film Archives).

Out of the Fog

(1922), Kodak film made to demonstrate to George Eastman that the 16mm film format was ready for market (George Eastman Museum).

Poverty to Riches

(1922), comic tale of “Count Yer Change,” a crook who robs the rich, made by Marion Gleason with an early prototype of Kodak’s 16mm camera (George Eastman Museum).

Tode Travelogue Collection

(1930), ten films from the Asian travels of Arthur Tode, founder of the Propeller Club of New York (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology). Play film

Yanvallou: Dance of the Snake God Dambala

(1953), film of a West Indies ritual dance by famed pictorial photographer Fritz Henle (George Eastman Museum).