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The Last Word in Chickens (1924)
This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was preserved in 2015 from an original nitrate print. More information is available on the film's page in the National Film Preservation Foundation's website, where this version can be found featuring original music by Michael D. Mortilla.
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What’s Out Tonight Is Lost (1983)
Adopting its title from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, What’s Out Tonight Is Lost is an elegiac film sifting through the unrecoverable. The film is a reflecting pool where vision breaks up. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
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10
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Trekkerriff (1987)
This remained in limbo for 24 years. The only people to have ever seen it were a few handfuls of Hindle's and, later, Shellie Fleming's students. Working from the only surviving print and Will's original magnetic sound masters, the Academy Film Archive has restored the film. Additional Will Hindle films are also in the process of being restored. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
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The Story Of Koula (1951)
The Story of Koula, one of the Marshall Plan films, was made in Greece in 1951. It neatly exemplifies the capacity of Europe to ‘talk back’ to the USA within the framework of cultural aid programmes. And as such it can introduce a little‐explored topic: the politics of the avant‐garde in Greece in the post‐Civil War years and in particular the role of US cultural aid. This post‐war perspective throws light on the better‐known National School associated above all with Manolis Kalomiris, who dominated Greek music and musical life in the interwar period. The second part of this paper scrutinises the agenda and achievements of the Kalomiris circle, and that in turn enables useful generalisations about romantic nationalism in music. The third part of the paper reflects on the pre‐World War I achievements of Heptanesian traditions, again caught between singularities and dependencies. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
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The sound of his face (1988)
A "filmed biography" of Kirk Douglas -- literally. Pages of a book -- the lines of text, and the tiny dots comprising the half-tone photographs -- create odd musical notes, which are edited into a pounding rhythm. This film examines the molecular fabric of Hollywood superficiality. Winner: Juror's Choice, SFAI Film Festival, 1988. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
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10
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You See... I've Had a Life (1972)
This film reveals through flashbacks how a 13-year-old boy and his family attempt to deal with the child's fatal affliction with leukemia. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Watching for the Queen (1973)
Watching for the Queen continued Rimmer's investigations of minimal narrative and the anonymous/autonomous shot. Pattern recognition, saccadic eye movement and feature rings are well known phenomena in the behavioral sciences. However, in Watching for the Queen, Rimmer has succeeded in employing these mechanisms in the telling of a story, by employing mathematical ordering in an aesthetic manner. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.
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Truth Serum (1967)
Truth Serum is a rare work by Sonbert made in New York City in 1967. The completed film (that is missing its original soundtrack) provides a unique glimpse into his life and friends at the time including fellow filmmakers Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiller. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.
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Where Did Our Love Go (1966)
Warhol Factory days... serendipity visits, Janis and Castelli and Bellevue glances... Malanga at work ... glances at Le Mépris and North by Northwest... girl rock groups and a disco opening... a romp through the Modern. My second film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.
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I Think I'm Going to Like it Here (1980)
Chris Columbus's NYU student film follows a naïve freshman from the Midwest as he becomes acclimated to his first year at NYU. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.
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Poppycock! (1966)
Addresses the age-old problem of two men vying for the same woman. Includes an unconventional, contemporary duel between them, with a wineglass and a violin as weapons. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
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The Happy Organ (1971)
Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
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The Gypsy Cried (1973)
“When one likes something very much, or someone, it is hard to do anything but like it. I didn’t want to take anything away or add anything to this song because I like it a lot.” --Chris Langdon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
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Hall of Mirrors (1966)
This film is an outgrowth of one of Sonbert's film classes at NYU, in which he was given outtakes from a Hollywood film photographed by Hal Mohr to re-edit into a narrative sequence. Adding to this found footage, Sonbert filmed Warhol's superstars Rene Ricard and Gerard Malanga in more private and reflective moments. -- Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.
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Fracture (1973)
Variously relaxed, apprehensive, or relieved, the fractured gestures of a woman and a baby are played backward and forward, frame by frame, like a musical phrase. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.
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Eric and the Monsters (1965)
Chick Strand's first film, made while living in the Bay Area, features her young son Eric as a little boy traipsing through a mysterious landscape, perhaps pursued by the titular monsters. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation and Pacific Film Archive in 2009.
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10
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Divertissement Rococo (1951)
A Hy Hirsh film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.
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Décollages Recollés (1961)
Decollages Recolles is a mystery as it is unfinished, with no indication of the track Hirsh intended. We had two reels, each with a head title, but no identification whether they were to be printed together, or projected side by side (which seems more likely). Parts of reel one have optically printed layers of fireworks, oscilloscopes, birds, etc. Hirsh reprinted images similar to those in Eneri, Come Closer and Divertissement Rococo. Reel two is a much less polished collage with live action shots including city windows, a marching band, monkeys, circus performers, Charlie Chaplin footage and Paris neon at night. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.
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The Dance (1970)
With an irresistible humour, Rimmer speculates in The Dance on the nature of the film loop. We see a (1920s) couple whilring around a dance floor at a dizzying pace... Uncanny in its ability to evoke complexity of responses from a simplicity of means. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
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Crystals (1951)
Experimental film by Elwood Decker. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba (1965)
Recurrent themes of violence, sex and TV commercials. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
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The Cinematographer (1951)
A behind-the-scenes look at the responsibilities of the cinematographer. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Treefall (1970)
"Treefall" was originally made for a dance performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery, April, 1970. Structured in the form of two loops of high-contrast images of trees falling, reprinted and overlapped. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.
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Fighting the Fire Bomb (1941)
Documentary short explaining proper techniques for handling and disposal of incendiary bombs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Academy War Film Collection, in 2009.
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Pastorale d'été (1958)
PASTORAL D'ETE is one of the nation's first works of the Personal Film movement. Hindle dovetails the lyrical images of a singular high summer's day heat. A poignant first work. Initially used camera settings and lens operations. Evidences the mastery of editing to come. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Film Archive in 2012.
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Calling All Workers (1941)
Documentary short about the government census of unemployed but employable workers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2009.
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Atol (1966)
A documentary abstraction recorded at night in Los Angeles backed by the music of Stockhausen. It is a preliminary effort to organise camera and audio images through a cybernetic editing model and a digital computer. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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An American March (1941)
Stars and stripes forever and ever and ever. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
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5.8
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America's Hidden Weapon (1944)
Documentary short film demonstrating the way wartime farming measures in 1943 resulted in the greatest American food crop in history. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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As If We (1980)
Musing on the past and the present, on roads not taken and the road I was already on. For Jeanine Hayden and her son Jeff, wherever you are. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk (1951)
Documentary short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Marshall Plan Collection, in 2003.
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The Surf Caster’s Story (1974)
ca. 1974, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
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The Plant Film (1974)
ca. 1973-4, b/w, silent, 9 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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This is the Brain of Otis Crawfield (1973)
1973, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
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Bondage Girl (1973)
1973, color, sound, 6 min., aka Immaculate Gate. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
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My Girdle My God (1972)
color, sound, 15 min., never shown. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
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Go Oh Wow (1972)
1972, color, sound, 6 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
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Mirror People (1974)
To a sound-track of fun-house screams and cackles, Mirror People, a tribe of Halloween hallucinations, fuse into each other and get absorbed into their reflections and their environments in a universe where all is flux and nothing is stable, except for the constant delights of metamorphosis. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
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Micro 2 (1952)
Short film from Elwood Decker preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
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Five Film Exercises: Film 5 (1944)
Opens with a short canonical statement of a theme upon which the entire film is constructed. The canon is repeated in contrasting variations by means of color. A second section poses the same image in deep film space. The image unfolds itself repeatedly, leaving the receding image to continue on smaller and smaller. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
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Chromesthetic Response (1987)
A collage of human-created worldly surfaces - sidewalks, streets, storefronts - that evoke subtle and mysterious noises. "Chromesthesia" is a condition whereby one sees a color or shape and experiences a sensation of taste, smell or hearing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
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Grateful Dead (1967)
A chaotic film featuring the Grateful Dead. The songs that are included are Sitting on Top of the World, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Cold Rain and Snow, and something that might be Viola Lee Blues. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
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6.5
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Technicolor for Industrial Films (1940)
Short designed to encourage the use of Technicolor for instructional and advertising films. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1995.
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Colorfilm (1965)
A joyous, chaotic and colorful romp through nature; A psychedelic dance troupe rehearses in a studio.
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Along the Moonbeam Trail (1920)
A magic aeroplane takes two children to the Moon, where they encounter prehistoric monsters and witness a battle between them. As far as is known this was the first film to combine realistic stop-motion dinosaurs and live-action actors in the same shot. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
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40,000 Acres, With View (1984)
Demonstrates the importance of parks and open spaces in an urban environment through a young woman's exploration of New York City's variety of environments over a period of three seasons. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Blue Movie (1970)
Blue Movie was made for the international Dome Show where it was projected down onto the muslin surface of David Rimmer's geodesic dome. The audience lay on the floor looking up at it, the inside of each eye finishing the globe. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Holiday (1968)
Experimental short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, in 1998.


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