(1973),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
Anchors
(1972),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
And We Drink and Drown
(ca. 1970),
short employing the poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti to question the educational system
(New York Public Library).
Aspirations
(1971),
confessional film about a young woman’s development in a patriarchal society
(New York Public Library).
Batteries Not Included
(1971),
stop-motion animation showing what happens when G.I. Joe meets Barbie
(New York Public Library).
Bogus Boxing Trash, Part One
(1969),
part one of rock critic Richard Meltzer’s epic film on boxing
(Film-Makers' Cooperative).
Break-Through
(1970),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
Breath In(to)/Out(of)
(1971),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
Charles “Teenie” Harris Collection
(1935–55),
home movies of Pittsburgh’s African American community taken by a newspaper photographer
(Carnegie Museum of Art).
Concentration/Contemplation Piece
(1970),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
Cross-Fronts
(1972),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
Dance Medley
(1970),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
Directions
(1971),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
Ducks
(early 1960s),
ornithologist Helen Hays’ film about the breeding habits of freshwater birds in New York City’s Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
(American Museum of Natural History).
Essex Mountain Sanatorium Films
(ca. 1938),
two films about the tuberculosis treatment facility in Verona, New Jersey
(Newark Public Library).
Filling Up Space
(1970),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
The Flop!
(ca. 1967),
film about a delinquent who falls to his death while resisting arrest
(New York Public Library).
(early 1930s),
community portraits of North Scituate, featuring hand-tinting and humorous intertitles, by a local amateur filmmaker
(North Scituate Public Library).
Play film
Lick
(1970),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
Life Histories of the North American Marsh Birds
(1975),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
Life in New York
(1969),
documentary about the disparities between the Lower East Side and Park Avenue made by Puerto Rican teens
(New York Public Library).
Louis de Rochemont Footage of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
(1943),
unfinished town portrait shot by the creator of The March of Times newsreel
(Keene State College).
Lunt and Fontanne Collection
(1928–39),
home movies from Ten Chimneys, the Genesee Depot estate of renowned theatrical couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
(Wisconsin Historical Society).
Play film
Mission San Xavier del Bac
(1968),
film about the historic Spanish Catholic church and its Tohono O’odham communicants
(University of Arizona).
(1973),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).
A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer
(1964),
recruitment film for activists involved in the “Freedom Summer” voter registration campaign, made by Richard Beymer from West Side Story
(Washington University in St. Louis).
Play film
Robert Petrie Walton Research Films
(1950s),
experiments testing the effects of medicinal plants on the cardiovascular systems of cats and dogs
(Medical University of South Carolina).
Run Off
(1970),
super8 short by influential performance artist and architect Vito Acconci
(Anthology Film Archives).