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.
Feature-length documentary film about the California counter-culture movement, which toured college campuses in various film festivals of the time. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
1975, b/w, sound, 3 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
ca. 1975, 35mm, color, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
1973, color, sound, 6 min., aka Immaculate Gate. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
1972, color, sound, 6 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
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.
Experimental short shot on reel to reel video tape and preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
Just before the scheduled electrocution of stockbroker Kenneth Avery for the murder of Mazie Lawrence, Nan Perry makes one last plea to the governor for a stay of execution and relates the incidents that led to Mazie's death. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015
Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Daily Rains is a measured, poetic work that confronts head-on the micro- and macro-aggressions faced by young Black women. Restored by the Academy Film Archive.
A portrait of three Los Angeles area residents who create things with their hands. Angelo Austin decorates wedding cakes; Dean Jeffries designs, manufactures, and paints custom cars; and Pamela Weir-Quiton creates wooden dolls. Restored in 2016 by the Academy Film Archive.
Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as they attempt a new method of teaching elementary school children in Los Angeles. With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the siblings work together on a pilot program of “design-based learning” that would restructure the typical classroom curriculum, replacing rote math or civics lessons with an imaginary city designed and built entirely by the students themselves. Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive.
Kavery Kaul’s engaging documentary traces the history of calypso and soca music from their birth in the African-East Indian traditions of Trinidad and Tobago through its worldwide diaspora, including its popularization in the 1950s by Harry Belafonte and the new independent distribution networks that arose to serve the expatriate community in the 1980s. North American restoration premiere at To Save and Project: The 19th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation on January 27 and 31, 2023. Digital restoration by the Academy Film Archive and the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television; courtesy of Riverfilms.
The mechanized production of Duro-Test light bulbs is filmed as a dance to the tune of the Brandenburg, as choreographed filaments, glass, and metal combine in a dynamic finale. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
1974, b/w, sound, 10 min., aka Express Implication
Mr. Wilson hires Mantan to travel out West and clean out an old property. Mantan runs into trouble in believing the house is haunted while a gang uses it as a hideout. A race film Western produced by the Toddy Company; made for $500 over two days. Restoration by the Academy Film Archive and Blackhawk Films with funding from the estate of David Shepard from the only surviving 35mm nitrate print donated by Giancarlo Esposito and Laurence Fishburne.
Gracias Amigos was a 1944 propaganda short produced by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to educate the American public about the contributions of Latin America during World War II. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2012.