Preserved Film Movies

Film of "Dropped Objects" falling from 8,000 ft. altitudes with skydivers as performers. This film of a conceptual artist's work is a document of...

"Picture Without Sound is a film composed of variations on three basic shots that are organized in a pattern signified by the notation...

This U.S. Navy documentary depicts the sea battle at Leyte Gulf during the Allied landings at Mindoro in the Phillipines during World War II. During...

Documentary short film demonstrating the war activities of the American Red Cross. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Diana Wilson’s mysteriously beautiful animated tableaux fluidly unfold before our eyes, a generous receptacle for the mournful, harrowing...

"Sky Blue Water Light Sign is best seen in total innocence. My guess is that if one knows what he or she is looking at before seeing this little...

All the winners. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

16mm short from 1978. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A "filmed biography" of Kirk Douglas -- literally. Pages of a book -- the lines of text, and the tiny dots comprising the half-tone photographs --...

The inevitable subjectivity and diaristic potential of landscape is foregrounded in this semi-structuralist work of weird poetic beauty. Preserved...