(1976),
footage of raptor conservationists Morlan W. Nelson and Tom Cade participating in the first World Conference on Falconry and Conservation
(Archives of Falconry).
American Sunbathing Association Convention
(1948),
documentation of a naturist event in Mays Landing, New Jersey
(Chicago Film Archives).
Builders of Castles
(1917),
surviving three reels of an Edison Manufacturing Company melodrama about fraudulent building and loan schemes targeting aspiring homeowners
(George Eastman Museum).
Construction of the Museum of International Folk Art
(1950),
Kodachrome reels shot by the Museum’s founding director, Robert Bruce Inverarity, of the structure designed by architect John Gaw Meem
(Museum of International Folk Art).
Custer Channel Wing Collection
(1940s–60s),
documentation of the design, development, and flight testing of three experimental Custer Channel Wing aircraft, built by Willard R. Custer
(Mid-Atlantic Air Museum).
Cycles
(1989),
Zeinabu irene Davis’ experimental reflection on Black womanhood and Afro-Caribbean folklore and spirituality
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
Cycles
(1974),
experimental collaboration between Jordan Belson and Stephen Beck to run film footage through a direct video synthesizer and back to film
(Pacific Film Archive).
Deutsch-Glick Wedding
(1923),
professional documentation of a wedding at a mansion on Chicago’s north side
(Chicago Film Archives).
Dooley’s Frolics #1 and #2
(ca.1949),
coverage of School Spirit Week at the University
(Emory University).
A Dream is What You Wake Up From
(1978),
hybrid documentary, combining documentary interviews and verité footage with docudrama recreations, examining Black family life in Harlem and New Jersey
(Third World Newsreel).
Ellen on the Rope
(1978),
Jean Sousa’s portrait of dancer and performance artist Ellen Fisher
(Chicago Film Society).
Emory Student Activities
(ca.1950s),
footage of sports, marching band, field day events, and the violent freshman-vs.-sophomore pushball game
(Emory University).
General Leif Johan Sverdrup Collection
(1941–45),
home movies of vital WWII airstrip construction on Papua New Guinea, focusing on the manual labor performed by the indigenous population
(Washington University in St. Louis).
Going Out of Business
(1977),
Chris Gamboni’s documentary elegy for a Long Island machine works that only made film splicers
(Chicago Film Society).
Infinity
(1979),
Jordan Belson’s experimental transformation, via handmade optical equipment, of live-action footage shot by Paul Fillinger
(Pacific Film Archive).
John Jackson at Middletown
(1970s),
performance footage of the renown Piedmont-style blues guitarist
(University of Virginia).
John Jackson at Smithsonian Festival
(ca.1972),
footage of the Virgina songster performing at the Folklife Festival in Washington, DC
(University of Virginia).
(1939),
snipe promoting the Chicago mayor’s successful run for a second term
(Chicago Film Archives).
Metamorphosis
(1962),
experimental film by New Age artist Rowena Pattee Kryder
(Block Museum of Art).
Mildred Keister Dennis Collection, Part II
(ca.1940–55),
home movies of family and high society life in Knoxville, along with excursions to the Great Smoky Mountains and Rebel Railroad
(Knox County Public Library).
(1969),
short produced for a National Gallery of Art exhibit, pairing paintings by school children with narrated commentary by Apollo 8 astronauts recorded during their December 1968 mission
(National Air And Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution).
(1973),
documentation of the preparation and installation of the first major loan of artworks from the Soviet Union to the US
(National Gallery of Art).
Partners of the Tide
(1921),
silent feature directed by Irwin Willat, telling the violent story of rival deep-sea divers
(San Francisco Film Preserve).
Passages
(1982),
metaphysical animated short by Rowena Pattee Kryder
(Block Museum of Art).
(ca.1980s),
footage of Paul Newman and his daughter Nell attending Cornell University’s peregrine falcon breeding facility and peregrine reintroduction efforts in Idaho’s Snake River Canyon
(Archives of Falconry).
Picasso and the Circus
(1981),
children’s film of the Parisian circuses that influenced Picasso
(National Gallery of Art).
Picasso: The Saltimbanques
(1981),
chronicle of the 1981 NGA exhibition celebrating the artist’s centennial and his affection for itinerant performers
(National Gallery of Art).
Pulaski Village Collection
(1954–58),
amateur footage of Polish Highlander dances and Polish American polkas at ballroom in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood
(Tatra Mountain Cultural Foundation).
Ramon Williams Collection
(1940–58),
28 reels from the “Century Cinema” service, documenting African American life in Chicago’s historic Bronzeville community
(South Side Home Movie Project).
Regional High Schools
(1970),
interview with Alaskan Yu’pik teenagers who’d moved from Bureau of Indian Affairs schools to integrated ones closer to their home villages
(Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association).
Robert Fulton’s Pan Am Films
(1936–37),
documentation of base building on Midway and Wake Islands for the first trans-Pacific passenger service route, flown by the China Clipper
(Pan Am Historical Foundation).
Scar Hanan
(1925),
surviving reel of an FBO western starring legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt
(George Eastman Museum).
Set-Up
(1971),
Nicholas Doob’s self-reflexive documentary portrait of New Haven resident Donald Horner and his post-prison views of society
(Yale Film Archive).
Snow and Ice at Emory
(ca.1933),
stormy footage of the campus during its period of depression-era growth
(Emory University).
(1981),
narrative short about a young immigrant who draws on the traditions and support of the Samoan American community in Los Angeles
(Visual Communications).
Valerie: A Woman, An Artist, A Philosophy of Life
(1975),
Monica Freeman’s documentary of artist Valerie J. Maynard at work in her studio and in Harlem’s Studio Museum
(Valerie J. Maynard Foundation).
(1982),
Cinecraft Productions docudrama, sponsored by the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, about a day-in-the-life of a modern Iñupiat family in Alaska
(Hagley Museum and Library).