Preserved Film Movies

Little Billy wants to buy some ice cream with the dime his mother gave him, but the neighborhood bullies have other plans for that dime. Preserved...

The Rehearsal is a 1969 short comedy, written and directed by Stephen F. Verona. It is a humorous short where a director becomes frustrated with a...

Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Aztec romance and the dream of love. The anthropologist’s most human desire, the ultimate contact with the informant. The denial of...

Spaceborne is a 1977 short documentary directed by Philip Dauber. It shows images taken during space missions of the mid-1970s, including images of...

Experimental short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, in 1998.

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Two aspiring Italian actors, hoping to become movie stars, dream of moving to New York City to study at the Actors Studio. Preserved by the Academy...

A musical about an unhappy couple and the man that stands between them. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Stars and stripes forever and ever and ever. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

A film exposing the staged commodification and banality of the American "beauty contest" with color overlays of fireworks in reverse-motion. ...

Optical printing pioneer Pat O’Neill uses “his skills in special effects production to extrapolate metaphysical meaning from the...

The cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between...

An animated comedy short from the 1920s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of about 200 films preserved on their original...

This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was preserved in 2015 from an original nitrate print....

The Big Show, the only feature-length motion picture produced by the Miller Brothers, is a behind-the-scenes melodrama set within their show. The...

This short film is an illustration of Niver's preservation process of paper print films. Renovare—from the Latin "to renew"—was an apt...

Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as they attempt a new method of teaching elementary...

Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970), Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly and brilliantly mixes documentary reality...