Preserved Film Movies
- 1969
Akran
Akran7.71969HD
"A feature-length deluge of incessant, brilliant bursts of images (short takes and jump cuts, single frames in series, freeze-frames slightly altered...
- 1986
Cinderella
Cinderella81986HD
“CINDERELLA is a musical treatment of the fairy tale. I have broken apart the story and set it as a mechanical game with a series of...
- 1999
Persian #2
Persian #25.71999HD
Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching...
- 1960
The Dead
The Dead4.71960HD
"The Dead became my first work in which things that might very easily be taken as symbols were so photographed as to destroy all their symbolic...
- 1962
The World's Greatest Sinner
The World's Greatest Sinner7.11962HD
A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live...
- 1930
Study No. 6
Study No. 66.41930HD
The first Studies were synchronized with records (Fischinger made a total of 13 Studies all without sound). It was only with the introduction of...
- 1947
Motion Painting No. 1
Motion Painting No. 16.21947HD
Motion Painting No. 1 is a 1947 experimental short animated film in which film artist Oskar Fischinger put images in motion to the music of Johann...
- 1991
One Hand Don’t Clap
One Hand Don’t Clap01991HD
Kavery Kaul’s engaging documentary traces the history of calypso and soca music from their birth in the African-East Indian traditions of...
- 1998
Slam
Slam6.81998HD
Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the...
- 1993
The Village
The Village7.51993HD
A village is ruled by the church, but is filled with hypocritical sinners who constantly spy on each other. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...
- 1974
Closed Mondays
Closed Mondays6.1431974HD
A man visiting a museum sees the works of art come to life.
- 1958
Anticipation of the Night
Anticipation of the Night6.21958HD
First person view of a man, seen only in shadow, attempting to connect with the world around him. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
- 1965
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story5.81965HD
An intimate and moving portrait of one of the most remarkable women in American history. It is the story of a lonely, unhappy child who became the...
- 1972
Confessions
Confessions61972HD
Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
- 1968
Windy Day
Windy Day6.11968HD
Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard. Preserved by the Academy Film...
- 1936
Bored of Education
Bored of Education6.51936HD
Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive...
- 1928
The Matinee Idol
The Matinee Idol6.11928HD
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally...
- 1920
Along the Moonbeam Trail
Along the Moonbeam Trail4.81920HD
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...
- 1959
Sirius Remembered
Sirius Remembered3.91959HD
A tribute to Stan Brakhage's pet dog Sirius, whose decompostion was recorded over 6 months after he had died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...
- 1973
Frank Film
Frank Film5.7671973HD
A compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography...