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	Happy City, The - William Deneen Productions Sponsored by the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, Bill Deneen traveled three days by bullock cart to the remote leper colony run by Father Cesare Columbo in Ken Tung (Kyiang Tong), Burma. Intended to be a film to be used for fundraising, the film is a fascinating documentary about a humanitarian effort that would soon be terminated by the Burmese government, as shortly after the film was made, Columbo was deported, never to return... Keywords: Burma; Myanmar; leprosy; Hansen's Disease; Cesare Colombo Downloads: 34,401 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Iran - Claude Lelouch Far more than a travelogue with pretty pictures, this little-known film won six international awards shortly after its release. 'Iran' consists of spectacular geographical and archaeological footage interspersed with "slice of life" shots, evidencing best juxtapositional editing we've ever seen. This is a buried masterpiece from the director of 'A Man and a Woman,' 'Happy New Year,' and 'And Now My Love.' Lelouch reportedly shot six miles of footage to make this film, which apparently was sponso... Keywords: Persia, Petroleum, Qashqai, nomad, Islam, mosque Downloads: 12,818 Average rating: (1 review)
	Congruent Triangles - Bruce and Katharine Cornwell Bruce and Katharine Cornwell are primarily known for a series of remarkable animated films on the subject of geometry. Created on the Tektronics 4051 Graphics Terminal, they are brilliant short films, tracing Klee-like geometric shapes to intriguing music, including the memorable 'Bach meets Third Steam Jazz' musical score in ‘Congruent Triangles.’ In this melding of art and science, the Cornwells create a quasi-hypnotic take on a mathematical construct. Keywords: mathematics, science Downloads: 6,851 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Solar System (2nd Ed) - Tom Smith Tom Smith headed up the Special Effects team at Industrial Light & Magic, where he created all the goodies for the 'Star Wars' films. This is his academic film masterwork, which took over a year to create, over 13 weeks to film, and utilized "traveling mattes," with as many as five separate films running in the background, showcasing wonderful models and graphics. About the making of the film, Tom Smith writes: "I made that film in 1976 with Richard Basehard as narrator and a classical music sco... Keywords: space; universe; Industrial Light and Magic; ILM Downloads: 8,975 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Frames of Reference - Richard Leacock This PSSC film utilizes a fascinating set consisting of a rotating table and furniture occupying surprisingly unpredictable spots within the viewing area. The fine cinematography by Abraham Morochnik, and funny narration by University of Toronto professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume is a wonderful example of the fun a creative team of filmmakers can have with a subject that other, less imaginative types might find pedestrian. Keywords: physics; science; PSSC Downloads: 8,054 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	The Shopping Bag Lady - Bert Salzman Set In Manhattan's Central Park, this film is the poignant story of a teenage girl's encounter with a homeless old woman (movingly portrayed by distinguished actress Mildred Dunnock) who carries all her belongings around in shopping bags. This encounter eventually leads to the girl's understanding of the problems of aging and the dignity of all individuals, regardless of their place in society. Actress Mildred Dunnock, who plays the homeless woman, was a former schoolteacher who didn't begin act... Keywords: Bert Salzman; homeless; elderly Downloads: 5,529 Average rating: (7 reviews)
	Cliché Family in Televisionland - MPO Productions This outrageous parody of the prototype 'commercial' family was apparently made as an in-house joke by one of the largest producers of television commercials. Their clients would have never seen this gem, which parodies products as well as the people that buy them. Keywords: parody; advertisement; asian Downloads: 21,318 Average rating: (10 reviews)
	Modern Business Machines for Writing, Duplicating, and Recording - Teaching Aids Exchange An intriguing historical film, demonstrating many expensive business machines found in modern offices of the era, including electromatic and Chinese typewriters and machines for filming, stenciling, folding and lithographing. Among the machines shown are Diebold's Flofilm microfiche recorder, the Fileomatic Desk, the Pierce Electronic Wire Recorder, the Soundscriber with plastic disk, the Elliott Stencil Machine with Graphotype machine, the Davidson Duplicator for litho printing, the Davidson Fo... Keywords: Chinese Typewriter; Fileomatic; Graphotype; IBM MOdel A; Stella Pajunas Downloads: 465 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Journey to the Center of a Triangle - Bruce And Katherine Cornwell 'Journey to the Center of a Triangle' (1976) 8m, dir. Bruce & Katharine Cornwell. Another fabulous film by the Cornwells, created on the Tektronics 4051 Graphics Terminal. Presents a series of animated constructions that determine the center of a variety of triangles, including such centers as circumcenter, incenter, centroid and orthocenter. Keywords: mathematics; science Downloads: 3,120 Average rating: (0 review)
	African Pygmy Thrills - Eugene W. Castle Castle Films, whose series ‘The Adventure Parade’ resulted in a number of commercially exotic films on ethnic traditions and cultures, actually utilized authentic music in this film, instead of the boring orchestral scores that were more typical of the era. Although the continued use of the term "these little men", and the embarrassing attempt to comically portray an older member of the group as a cynic seems condescending to present-day sensibilities, the faithful recording of the building ... Keywords: pygmy; Africa; Werner Herzog Downloads: 2,226 Average rating: (1 review)
	Visite à Picasso - Paul Haesaerts ‘Visite à Picasso’ (1950) 20m, dir. Paul Haesaerts A poetic treatment which includes the artist painting on glass while facing the camera, shot at Picasso's home in Vallauris, accompanied by some fairly moody organ music in this very dark, but captivating film. The artist here takes on the character of an eminence-grise, an alchemist engulfed in the "sol y sombra" of his laboratory-studio, filmed in gorgeous black and white. Keywords: Art; painting Downloads: 30,937 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Imaging the Hidden World: the Light Microscope - Bruce Russell To say Russell makes films on biology is sort of like saying Rodin threw some clay on a table and a few minutes later came up with a figure representative of a human. 'Light Microscope' starts out didactically (Russell was a former K-12 biology teacher) in instructing the student on proper microscope technique, then goes off into the hyperspace of lighting techniques, using light and colored filters, that make otherwise difficult-to-see phenomena visible... Keywords: biology; science; volvox; hydra; amoeba Downloads: 4,421 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Magnet Laboratory, A - Richard Leacock In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when Leacock was hired to produce this twenty-minute version of lab mayhem. Try this: six researchers in a lab at MIT in the late 1950's show-off the power of electro-magnets, and in the process, accidentally set an experiment on fire. Or this: half way through the film the phone rings off screen, and host Francis Bitter says "tell 'em I'll call 'em bac... Keywords: magnet; degauss; physics; science; PSSC Downloads: 2,198 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Hangman - Paul Julian A cynical look at how humankind loves to feed others into the death machine, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Shadows and shifting geometric planes lend a Chirico-like quality to Julian's animation. Great musical score by Serge Hovey Keywords: animation; death; horror Downloads: 4,411 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Silent Snow, Secret Snow - Gene Kearney Alienation, angst, and schizophrenia are powerful themes addressed by Kearney in this forgotten masterpiece. From a story by Conrad Aiken. Keywords: schizophrenia; teen angst Downloads: 5,763 Average rating: (9 reviews)
	Dong Kingman - James Wong Howe This exceptional film shows painter Kingman at work in New York's Chinatown, shot by master cinematographer James Wong Howe. Keywords: art; painting; Chinese Downloads: 2,546 Average rating: (1 review)
	Railway with a Heart of Gold - Carson "Kit" Davidson This film is an account of the Talyllyn Railway, a historic narrow-gauge slate carrier in Tywyn, Wales, and its operation by a preservation society who saved it from being sold for scrap. Although the release date is 1965, it was actually filmed in the early 1950s. Academic Film Archive of North America director Geoff Alexander visited the railway in June, 2009 as part of the process of preparing the film for uploading: "Opened in 1865, the Talyllyn railway was the first narrow-gauge steam railw... Keywords: train; narrow gauge; locomotive; Talyllyn Downloads: 695 Average rating: (1 review)
	Rough Road to Panama - Sullivan C. Richardson The Sullivan C. Richardson Pan American Highway Expedition, 1940-1941. The first of a two-part series describing the first successful attempt to drive an automobile from the United States to the tip of South America the companion is was "Rugged Road to Cape Horn." Here, Richardson and two companions (one of whom is Arnold Whitaker) explore the route that would eventually become the Pan American Highway... Keywords: Pan American Highway; Monte Alban; Atitlan; Guatemala; Mexico; El Savador Downloads: 160 Average rating: (0 review)
	Symmetry - Philip Stapp 'Symmetry' (1966) 10m, dir. Philip Stapp Stapp was one of the greatest animators working in the 1950-1975 era, using stylized, often pointillist abstract imagery, in a floating world sometimes surrealist, at other times reminiscent of Japanese "ukiyo-e" illustration. His spectacular 'Symmetry' is his greatest film, a fantasy of dancing images breaking apart, spinning, and converging. For more information on Stapp, visit: http://www.afana.org/stapp.htm Keywords: Animation Downloads: 2,665 Average rating: (0 review)
	Shaw vs. Shakespeare I: The Character of Caesar - John Barnes This is the first film in Barnes' 'Shaw vs. Shakespeare' series, considered by experts to be among the finest educational films ever made. Here is wonderful introduction to Barnes as an insightful and witty interpreter of Shakespeare on film, the opening film of the triptych focusing on George Bernard Shaw’s belief that, although Shakespeare’s play was superior to his own, the treatment of the character of Caesar was not... Keywords: Geoge Bernard Shaw; Shaw; Shakespeare; Moffat; Kiley; Grossman Downloads: 1,541 Average rating: (0 review)
	Wildcat - Dick McCutcheon Follows two Oklahoma wildcatters as they prepare to sink a well. Shows their drilling operations for the Big Chief Drilling Company in Garfield County, OK; Only 1 out of 9 wells are wet, and it takes them 22 days and 6,750 feet to figure it out. Keywords: oil; petroleum; Oklahoma Downloads: 758 Average rating: (1 review)
	The Stonecutter - Gerald McDermott ‘Stonecutter’ (1960) 6m, dir. Gerald McDermott. McDermott made this, his first commercial film at the age of 19, an extremely complex animation short featuring approximately 2000 animation cels presented in six minutes. Influenced by Klee and Matisse, McDermott used silk-screen as well as traditional painting techniques in crafting ethnographic folk tale animation shorts. With films that are startling in intensity, and majestic in execution, McDermott is clearly one of the outstanding animat... Keywords: Animation; Japan; folktale Downloads: 5,290 Average rating: (5 reviews)
	Granite - Carson "Kit" Davidson Here, a 25 ton block of granite being burned, drilled, and blasted from the heart of a Vermont mountain, focusing on the machinery used. Filmed at the Rock of Ages Quarry in Barre, VT. Keywords: quarry; Barre Downloads: 260 Average rating: (1 review)
	Japan - Miracle in Asia - William F. Deneen Explains how Japan's rapid industrial growth has influenced the way of life in the country and has affected the international political and economic position of the country. Suggests that Japan turned to industrialization to support a rapidly growing population on a small and relatively poor land area. Deneen shot the aerial shots himself alone, while piloting a single-engine aircfraft, pointing the camera out the window... Keywords: Japan Asia, industrial Downloads: 1,593 Average rating: (1 review)
	Death Valley - Paul Hoefler Productions A beautifully shot trip through the Death Valley of the late 1940s, including visits to the ghost town of Ryan, Zabriskie Point, the Harmony Borax Works, and Scotty's Castle. Keywords: ryan; scotty's castle; harmony; borax; Zabriskie Downloads: 1,852 Average rating: (1 review)
	Eskimo Family - William F. Deneen Old ways are juxtaposed with the influence of modern housing, food, and clothing, filmed on Baffin Island. Keywords: Nunavut; Arctic; Inuit Downloads: 1,689 Average rating: (1 review)
	Help, My Snowman's Burning Down - Carson "Kit" Davidson Fourteen international awards, including an Academy Award, Nomination and the Special Prize of the Jury, Cannes Intl Festival. Presents a surrealistic and humorous satire on the Madison Avenue image of the world through advertising. Keywords: experimental Downloads: 2,457 Average rating: (1 review)
	Wild Men of the Kalahari - C. Ernest Cadle 'Wild Men of the Kalahari' (1930) 30m, prod. C. Ernest Cadle. In one of the earliest "talking pictures" shot in western Africa, expedition leader and lecturer Dr. C. Ernest Cadle of the Cameron-Cadle expedition describes the Kung Bushmen as "among the most treacherous creatures on earth". He then "baited them as we would an animal" to gather them for camera shots, and noted their eating habits ("he doesn't chew, but simply swallows like a dog"). Keywords: bushmen; kalahari; namibia; etosha; san; hoefler Downloads: 2,057 Average rating: (0 review)
	Rhinoceros - Jan Lenica A animated version of Ionesco’s tale, a play on the theme of conformity. Keywords: animation; poland Downloads: 1,455 Average rating: (1 review)
	Stalking the Wild Cranberry: the Making of a TV Commercial - Gordon Webber This wonderful film traces the steps taken in creating and shooting a television commercial for Post Grape Nuts. This film was produced by George Gage Productions, which filmed the commercial, starring the legendary Euell Gibbons, for the Benton & Bowles advertising agency, with lots of discussions & outtakes. The funky "Cranberry Rag" played by pianist Paul McDonough is delightful. Keywords: advertising; Euell Gibbons Downloads: 1,092 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Valley of Heart's Delight A 'new' version of the original of 1925, touting Santa Clara Valley's agricultural roots. Here we see the Clapp's Baby Food factory, the American Can Company plant, FMC, San Jose Steel, and Moffett Field, all accessible via the old Monterey Highway, or after arrival on the Coast Daylight steam locomotive-driven train. Keywords: San Jose; Santa Clara Valley; Coast Daylight; Southern Pacific; FMC; Moffett Field Downloads: 986 Average rating: (0 review)
	Crisis in Levittown - Lee Bobker/Lester Becker The Black upper middle-class Myers family moves into all-white Levittown, PA in August, 1957, and are snubbed and mistreated, in this powerful landmark documentary showcasing racism in the United States. Keywords: african-american; black; racism; housing; urban Downloads: 1,262 Average rating: (0 review)
	Centinelas del Silencio - Robert Amran The real star here is the late aerial photographer James Freeman, whose breathtaking helicopter shots of Mayan and Aztec ruins at sunrise and sunset won an Academy Award for this film in 1971. Although the English version was narrated by Orson Welles, the Spanish version, narrated by Ricardo Montalban, is in better keeping with the ethnic aspect of the film, and no knowledge of Spanish is needed to appreciate his dramatic impact... Keywords: Maya; Aztec; helicopter Downloads: 1,947 Average rating: (0 review)
	Project Discovery: a Demonstration in Education - Irving Rusinow This important film focuses on the experimental project most responsible for taking millions of public dollars away from textbook producers, and delivering it into the hands of educational film companies. The result? The blossoming of the academic film movement in the U.S., a filmmaking renaissance that changed the way curriculum was discussed and taught in North America. Here we visit the classroom that toppled the textbook companies, at Mercer Elementary School in Shaker Heights, Ohio... Keywords: education; history of education; mediated instruction Downloads: 656 Average rating: (0 review)
	Encore un Hiver - Françoise Sagan This wonderful film focuses on an older woman waiting on a park bench on a cold winter day for a lover who returns every year. Directed by Françoise Sagan, author of Bonjour Tristesse. Keywords: France; elderly; romance Downloads: 2,263 Average rating: (1 review)
	Shaw vs. Shakespeare II: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - John Barnes In maintaining that Brutus was the least morally-reprehensible character in Shakespeare’s play, Shaw here plays the critic, offering analysis to the scenes played by Barnes’ remarkable cast, led by Donald Moffat, Richard Kiley and Suzanne Grossman. Keywords: George Bernard Shaw; Shaw; Shakespeare; Moffat; Kiley; Grossman Downloads: 1,030 Average rating: (0 review)
	One Hundred Watts 120 Volts - Carson "Kit" Davidson 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. Downloads: 1,418 Average rating: (0 review)
	Maguey: Plant of a Thousand Uses - Ralph Adams Adams is a filmmaker whose life and work appear to be completely unknown today, as we have conducted a fruitless search to obtain biographical and filmographic information. He covered a breadth of territory, and we suspect that he might have made dozens of films on Mexican themes. His narration is not the most compelling, but he was a very good cinematographer, and apparently insisted upon superior print materials, as his color is exceptional for the era... Keywords: maguey; pulque Downloads: 275 Average rating: (1 review)
	Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Edward English Lisl Weil, a dancer who often performed in New York with friend Tommy Scherman and his Little Orchestra Society, was also a splendid charcoal artist. Here, accompanied by Sherman’s musical interpretation of the Paul Dukas classic, she soars across the screen, drawing abstract characters on a massive blank board in a timeless, fun film that juxtaposes wonderfully with the better-known Disney treatment in 'Fantasia.' Keywords: charcoal; dukas Downloads: 652 Average rating: (0 review)
	Unique Contribution - Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc. Here, the legendary president of EB Films discusses the 'unique contribution' of educational film to curriculum and learning. The film is geared toward instructors, and provides examples of mediated instructional techniques from filmmakers such as Roman Vishniac and John Barnes. Keywords: mediated instruction; education; history of education Downloads: 479 Average rating: (1 review)
	Why Don't You Dance? - Steven Condiotti From a story by Raymond Carver, filmed in El Cerrito,CA. Here, a sad man puts his possessions on in his front yard to sell, and two strangers arrive as buyers. They remain, to become part of the tableau. Two sets of relationships here are in a state of transition, in a beautiful, touching film that offers no concrete answers. Keywords: relationships Downloads: 907 Average rating: (0 review)
	Dances of the Kwakiutl - William Heick A magnificent film featuring Pacific Northwest Indian dances of the ancient winter ceremonial handed down among the Kwakiutl families as their way of keeping history. Beautiful costumes and masks are worn by the dancers in this black and white film Downloads: 931 Average rating: (0 review)
	Inside Magoo - Steve Bosustow, Amer Cancer Society, Inc 'Inside Magoo' (1960) 15, prod. Steve Bosustow. The nearsighted Mr. Magoo here experiences the seven danger signals of cancer and sees his doctor, even though as a Sagittarius, he feels he is not susceptible (Cancer, get it?). Notable for acted sequences with Jim Backus, producer Stephen Bosustow, and Scopitone star Joi Lansing as the nurse. Magoo goes to gets his colon scoped! Keywords: Animation Downloads: 7,656 Average rating: (0 review)
	Baja California: the Pacific Coast of Mexico - Silas Johnson Johnson is another "lost filmmaker, who worked out of Coronado, California. This film boasts beautiful color footage of old Baja, before Pemex stations lined the Cuota and Libre. Hunt travels from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas, enchantingly stopping at the waterless village of Magdalena Bay, Tortuga Bay, and the vineyards at Santo Tomás. Keywords: Santa Tomas; Magdalena; Tortuga; Baja; Cabo San Lucas; Ensenada Downloads: 468 Average rating: (0 review)
	Me and You, Kangaroo In a touching tale a boy raises an orphaned baby kangaroo in the outback of Australia but due to events beyond his control is forced to return the animal to the wild. A film for animal lovers of all ages. Beautifully photographed and acted. A classic animal story. Awards: AUSTRALIA’S BEST CHILDREN’S FILM AWARD AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL “CINE GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD” Keywords: Bert Salzman Downloads: 1,087 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Woodblock Printer - Carson Davidson Productions Follow the step-by-step execution of a woodblock print by artist Lowell Naeve from initial sketch to completed edition. Emphasizes the unique qualities of the medium for creative expression. For more on director Carson Davidson, visit www.afana.org/davidsoncarson.htm Keywords: art; woodblock; printing Downloads: 1,598 Average rating: (1 review)
	Homage à François Couperin (Butterflies) - Intl Film Foundation Homage à François Couperin (1978) 2m, dir. Philip Stapp. Also known as "Butterflies". A three-minute fantasy of butterflies and dragonflies cavorting amongst the pussywillows, Japanese-inspired animation accompanied by two variations on keyboard works by the Baroque composer. Uses a pointillist technique to provide a stroboscopic illusion where recognizable shapes become fluid abstractions, and where time is stretched to reveal the main patterns of the choreography... Keywords: animation; Couperin; baroque; music Downloads: 2,016 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Facts About Projection - Robert Edmonds An old-timey set-up & projection techniques film, set in a school classroom. This film teaches the young projectionist how to put on a good show, and not trip over the cord while doing so. Keywords: projector; 16mm; Bell & Howell Downloads: 1,296 Average rating: (0 review)
	Fisher Folk of Lake Pátzcuaro - Ralph Adams The Taracsan Indians, living on the island of Janítzio, are shown fishing with their butterfly nets, in a rare and damaged film we’re hoping to completely restore, when finances permit. Keywords: Tarascan; Janitzio; Patzcuaro; butterfly net; fishing Downloads: 176 Average rating: (0 review)
	School for Ted - Irving Rusinow Through the clever use of children's clay models, this film decscribes the functions of various individuals associated with the school, including principals, teachers, cafteria workers, crossing gurads, custodians, and the PTA. The audience for this film would have been first-graders. While they do not have significant roles, the Asian and Black students in the class represent one of the earliest examples of integrated classrooms shown in academic film. Keywords: elementary school; integration Downloads: 349 Average rating: (0 review)