preserved film movies page 5

The Fighting Generation (1944)
4.917 / 10

War

A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred...

Cinderella (1986)
8 / 10

Animation

“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 repetitions...

Chinese Series (2003)
5.117 / 10

Stan Brakhage's final film, made shortly before his death by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail to scratch marks into the...

Eye Myth (1967)
5.3 / 10

Animation

After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid...

Exploratorium (1974)
6 / 10

Documentary

An Oscar-nominated film with no narration showing the Exploratorium (The Palace of Arts and Science) in San Francisco. It shows many of the exhibits...

Amazon Diary (1989)
5 / 10

Oscar nominated short film from 1989. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Creation (1981)
7.2 / 10

Animation

The film is based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson depicting the power of the southern black American preacher's telling of the biblical creation...

Peggy (1916)
0 / 10

Comedy

The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is...

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
7.5 / 10

Documentary

A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative...

The Actor's Children (1910)
4 / 10

Drama

When his play closes down, an actor returns home to find that his children are gone. He's then notified that a wealthy relative has died and left him...

The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk (1951)
10 / 10

Documentary

Documentary short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Marshall Plan Collection, in 2003.

Castro Street (1966)
5.9 / 10

Documentary

Inspired by a lesson from Erik Satie, a film in the form of a street: Castro Street, running by the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California. ...

Food and Magic (1943)
5 / 10

War, Documentary, Fantasy

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to...

A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1966)
5 / 10

Comedy, Animation, Music

A prototype of modern music videos, this is an animated film set to the music of two popular tunes recorded by Herb Alpert and his Latin-flavored...

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1981)
5.6 / 10

Documentary, Music, Family

A beautiful expression of two differing cultures brought together by the warmth and dedication of a great musician and humanitarian. In 1979, as...

Five Ways to Kill Yourself (1987)
1 / 10

Comedy

Gus Van Sant, dissatisfied professionally, counts five ways to end his life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Frank Film (1973)
5.8 / 10

Animation

A compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography...

The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West (1916)
5.4 / 10

Drama

The Curse of Quon Gwon is the oldest known Chinese-American film and one of the earliest American silent features made by a woman. Only two reels of...

Drylongso (1999)
5.8 / 10

Drama

A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.

Hunky and Spunky (1938)
5.333 / 10

Animation

A short film about a mother and her son, she teaches him life skills later on the son gets niked by a man so the young donkey can be his work slave...