(1960s),
JoAnn Elam’s revision of the children’s fable through the lens of youth culture and revolutionary politics
(Chicago Film Archives).
Play film
Arizona and New Mexico
(ca. 1948–50),
nature film of flora and fauna in the great cactus belt by naturalist Paul G. Howes
(Bruce Museum).
Bath Iron Works Collection
(ca. 1937–56),
documentation of ship-launchings at the important national shipyard, including the 1937 America’s Cup winner Ranger
(Maine Maritime Museum).
Play film
Beauty and the Beast
(ca. 1973),
JoAnn Elam’s experimental melding of shadow puppets and scenes of farm and home life
(Chicago Film Archives).
Play film
(1930),
documentation of the Brooklyn Museum expedition to study the guano-producing fowl of the Islands of Santa Rosa and Lobos de Afuera, led by Robert Cushman Murphy
(American Museum of Natural History).
Play film
(1972),
Dorothy Wiley’s experimental depiction of food preparation
(Pacific Film Archive).
Childcare: People’s Liberation
(1970),
documentary on the need for cooperative childcare, directed by Bonnie Friedman and Karen Mitnik of the Newsreel Collective
(New York Public Library).
(1983),
70mm cityscape made for the “Here’s Chicago” exhibit at the town’s Water Tower Pumping Station
(Chicago Film Society).
Clarence McMillin Collection
(1930–48),
home movies of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, filmed by a U.S. government agent sent to manage its Aleut population
(University of Alaska Fairbanks).
Play film
Coffee
(1977),
silent, meditative film of an everyday object by Dorothy Wiley
(Pacific Film Archive).
Confrontation
(ca. 1968),
montage film by Maurice Bailen critiquing consumerism, government corruption, and racism
(Chicago Film Archives).
Play film
(1924),
silent melodrama on the early days of the Texas oil boom, directed by Joseph de Grasse and starring Milton Sills and Anna Q. Nilsson
(San Francisco Silent Film Festival).
Play film
GRASS
(1997),
single-shot experimental “microcinema” film by Naomi Uman
(XFR Collective).
Green Paradise: The Story of a Camping Trip
(1931),
earliest known moving images of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex in western Montana, filmed in Kodacolor
(Montana Historical Society).
Hey Mama
(1967),
cinema-verité documentary on working-class African American life in the Oakwood neighborhood of Venice, California
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
His Last Race
(1923),
silent feature starring daredevil rider Rex “Snowy” Baker and his wonderhorse Boomerang, directed by B. Reeves Eason
(George Eastman Museum).
(1964),
Naomi Levine’s experimental exercise in editing, featuring Gerard Malanga and Jack Smith
(Anthology Film Archives).
Letters
(1972),
abstract series of multi-dimensional letters created and filmed by Dorothy Wiley
(Pacific Film Archive).
Lie Back and Enjoy It
(1982),
JoAnn Elam’s dialectical examination of the politics of representation and the power imbalance between male filmmakers and female subjects
(Chicago Film Archives).
Play film
Love of 3 Oranges
(1993),
Naomi Uman’s multi-media depiction of femininity in operetta form
(XFR Collective).
Luther Cressman Field Work Films
(1930s–50s),
documentation of the influential archaeologist’s excavations on the Great Basin, Columbia River, and former Klamath Reservation
(University of Oregon).
(1920),
western starring Helen Gibson, the pioneering action star of The Hazards of Helen
(George Eastman Museum).
Play Championship Basketball
(1946),
“coach’s aid” instructional series featuring two-time Olympic gold winning coach Henry Iba
(Oklahoma State University).
Rainbow Bridge Monument Valley Expedition Collection
(1930s),
documentation of the first interdisciplinary expeditions in the Southwest, organized by Ansel Hall in the Four Corners region
(Fort Lewis College).
Relics of the Connecticut Indians
(ca. late 1950s–early 1960s),
documentary on regional native sites and artifacts by Paul G. Howes
(Bruce Museum).
(1960),
footage of the poet’s annual off-the-cuff lecture on literature
(Agnes Scott College).
Robert Garfias American Music Film Collection
(1968–70),
eminent ethnomusicologist’s performance footage of blues legends John Lee Hooker and Mance Lipscomb
(University of Washington).
Rotoscope Demonstration Reels
(ca. 1960s),
Missouri-set demonstration reels of a widescreen projection system designed to surpass Cinerama, invented by Rowe Carney and Tom Smith
(State Historical Society of Missouri).
(ca. 1960s),
documentation of paranormal psychologist Jule Eisenbud’s research on psychic Ted Serios and his purported ability to record thoughts on photographs
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County).
Tony Williams in Africa
(1973),
documentary of the fusion jazz drummer’s experience with the West African talking drum, directed by Yale professor and jazz musician Willie Ruff
(Yale Film Archive).