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Alone with the Monsters (1958) An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

Le grand Méliès (1952) A biography of the pioneer film director Georges Méliès, featuring his son André playing Georges, and with shots of his second wife, aged 90.

Cassis (1966) A camera is in a stationery position filming the lighthouse situated at the entrance of the harbor in Cassis, France. The resulting footage is shown time-lapsed, one day compressed into four minutes. The footage starts just before dawn and concludes just after night falls. The camera o

The Number on GreatGrandpas Arm (2018) A conversation between a boy and his great-grandfather, an Auschwitz survivor, is woven with historical footage and animation to tell a heartbreaking story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe,...

Paul Robeson Tribute to an Artist 1979 An examination of the life of actor and singer Paul Robeson, from his first major triumphs on the stage in the 1920s through his gradually increasing social activism in the 1930s and 1940s, leading to his controversial performances in Eastern Europe in the 1940

Rue Daguerre in 2005 (2005) In 2005, filmmaker Agnès Varda revisited the Rue Daguerre where she used to live 30 years earlier and had interviewed the shopkeepers for her film Daguerreotypes, to see how things might ...

58 Hours The Baby Jessica Story 2021 On October 14, 1987, 18 month old Jessica McClure fell into a well while playing in a relatives backyard in Midland, Texas A captivated nation watched on live television while rescuers worked around the clock for 58 hours to save her The tense and dramatic twists

Donner Party: The Musical (2013) Snowbound and desperate, some of the Donner Party died of starvation. Some of them did not. They all sang.

How to Play Football (1944) It's Taxidermy Tech vs. Anthropology A&M for this introduction to college football (first piece of special equipment needed: a campus covered in ivy). Among the names borrowed for players: Clyde Geronimi, Don DaGradi, 'John Sibley', Claude Smith.

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The Fleet That Came to Stay 1945 Well before he made the Westerns for which he would primarily be remembered, director Budd Boetticher put together this documentary of World War IIs Battle of Okinawa from footage shot by Navy cameramen in the thick of the fighting The vital editing skills Boetticher

Myra Hess (1945) Piano virtuosa Myra Hess performs Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, known as the "Appassionata", on stage in a concert hall. Hess performs only the first movement of the sonata.

One Good Turn 1931 Stan and Ollie are down on their luck and beg at an old ladys house for food While they are eating they overhear a villainous landlord Finlayson threatening to evict her if she does not pay the mortgage Not realizing that they are hearing a rehearsal for a play, the boys decide to

The Stationary Bike 2022 After being told by his doctor that his cholesterol level is too high, Richard begins riding a stationary bike in his apartment building As he gets in great shape physically, Richard begins having strange thoughts that there is s

Black and Tan (1929) Duke Ellington in a jazz musical short with a tragic plotline.

Meditation on Violence (1949) A young Oriental man with a headscarf and bare torso shadowboxes indoors in front of a series of unadorned walls, light, dark, both shades. He is then shown exercising outside with a sword in an area surrounded by a low stone wall and overlooking a river, before there i

Berth Marks 1929 Big time so they think vaudeville stars Stanley and Oliver take the train to Pottsville, their next booking On board, they bumble into the wrong sleeping compartment, startling a semi dressed woman Her irate husband mistakes another passenger for the intruder and starts a coat rippi

Making Fashion (1938) Humphrey Jennings shoots Hartnell catwalk.

Four in the Afternoon (1951) Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch. As a girl skips rope in "Game Little Gladys," she sings a jingle about who she might marry. In a park, ten men appear atop low pedestals. Is one her future? In "Gardene

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Strawberry Shortcake Berry Fairy Tales 2006 Join your berry best friend, Strawberry Shortcake, and her favorite pals, on another fun adventure and meet some wonderful new fairy friends Strawberry is thrilled to meet Margalo, the fairy who brings color to all berries that is, until she learns from he

Sculptor Sofu Teshigahara, father of filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara, prepares for an exhibition

DL2 reflects the influence of the American Bauhaus movement in Chicago introduced by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy during the late 30s/early 40s. The fim was made by shocking ten-foot strips of unprocessed black and white film into tanks of cold water, fixer, hot water, developer and then repeating the process.

Porky Daffy 1938 Daffy Duck, who only seems to awaken to the sound of a struck platter cover, is a boxer managed by Porky Pig, who boxes against a champion rooster in a widely commercialized event His techniques include using crazy antics, dirty tricks and sight gags

How to Play Baseball (1942) Goofy shows us the national pastime. After a brief overview, we have a demonstration of the many possible pitches. On to the World Series, where we go through an eventful inning, culminating in a baseball that disintegrates when being hit.

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Project CC 2023, A brilliant child scientist must join forces with her sister when a cloning experiment goes awry.

How to Sleep (1935) A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research on sleep, including a

English Harvest (1938) The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

Singapore Sue (1932) Four sailors enter a Singapore dive, meet a Chinese girl from Brooklyn, and find there's more to her than meets the eye. Two songs.

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To A Moral Certainty 2022 A representative for the Christian faith asks a jury to consider the story of Christs resurrection based on the standard of reasonable doubt that is employed by the US justice system

Harlekin 1931 out of 4This twenty five minute animation film from director Lotte Reiniger is certainly a real treat for the eyes The animation is done via silhouette and the use of stop motion and the story is about lover who meet, fall in love, struggle and we see their love blossom over a period o

Crime Control (1941) A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders that have recently been brought in. Shoelaces, for example, have an objectionable habit of breaking at crucial moments. The officer

Broken Bird 2020 Birdie is a biracial girl raised by her mom in a NJ suburb She spends a visitation day with her father, and debates inviting him back into her life as she prepares for her Bat Mitzvah and adulthood

Notes on the Circus (1966) The short film is a montage of sped up video clips of The Ringling Brothers Circus in action set to a musical track. The film is separated into four segments, each segment which focuses on ...

End of Summer (2014) Shot on black and white super 8 film, 'End of Summer' is a hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Filmed as a series of mostly static tableaux over a period of 20 days during the waning days of

Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971) Frampton burning slowly his an nostalgia black and white photograph who his taken on a hot plate.

Islands of the West (1972) A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.

The Hedonists (2016) An engaging drama about several unemployed Shanxi coalminers looking for work.

Laura Hasnt Slept 2020 Desperate to rid herself of a recurring nightmare, a young woman seeks the help of her therapist

The Calico Dragon 1935 A little girl reads a story about a dragon as she falls asleep, her doll rides off on his calico horse through a calico land to do battle with a three headed singing calico dragon

The Hook of Woodland Heights 1990 An escaped mental patient, who is missing a hand, uses a large barbecue fork in its place and proceeds to kill off the local teenagers

Shivering Sherlocks 1948 The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the boys go wit

Tornado Alley 2011 A team of storm chasers track a tornado

How to Watch Football (1938) A man with pipe and smoking jacket relaxes in his easy chair as he listens to a football game on the radio. The announcer wishes everyone was with him at the stadium. With that, the fan at home dreams of a recent trip to the stadium to watch a game with his date. They en

Chef Donald (1941) Donald is listening to a radio cooking program and mixes up a batch of waffles, but he's distracted and uses rubber cement instead of baking powder. The batter proves to be unusually stiff... His spoon gets stuck, and the batter acts like a rubber-band airplane, flying the bowl ar