Movies
- 1930
Mechanical Principles
Mechanical Principles6.61930HD
Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move. Gears drive larger wheels. Gears within...
- 1935
Pie in the Sky
Pie in the Sky6.3751935HD
At a skid row mission, a cleric opines as men wait to eat. After his sermon, he brings out a pie and cuts it into small slices. The two men at the...
- 1936
The Plow That Broke the Plains
The Plow That Broke the Plains5.51936HD
A documentary about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming destroyed the soil and led to the...
- 1939
The City
The City5.61939HD
A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...
- 1931
Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or The Lovely Life of Little Lisa
Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or The Lovely Life of Little Lisa01931HD
The photographer Ralph Steiner, who had been making abstract avant-garde films in the late 1920s, contributed his own parody of American economic...
- 1929
H₂O
H₂O6.71929HD
A cinematic tone poem, showcasing the dynamic nature of water through its various forms.
- 1934
Hands
Hands61934HD
A commercial for the Works Progress Administration. We see hands close up: working, playing, praying, whittling, and strumming. Hands use saws and...
- 1937
People of the Cumberland
People of the Cumberland5.81937HD
The film takes place in rural Tennessee, where communities have experienced economic and environmental devastation created by the coal mining...
- 1931
Surf and Seaweed
Surf and Seaweed6.71931HD
Shoreline images: first small breakers and the swirls they leave, then water running up the shore on a sandy beech, then water hitting pebbles and...
- 1941
Youth Gets a Break
Youth Gets a Break01941HD
Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.
- 1937
The World Today: The Black Legion - Shadow of Fascism Over America
The World Today: The Black Legion - Shadow of Fascism Over America01937HD
“Unhappy with the limited structure of league newsreels, Nykino, a splinter filmmaking collective, produced a MARCH OF TIME-type series under...
- 1975
Slowdown
Slowdown01975HD
A pixillated, time-lapse avant-garde film about the speed with which we conduct our lives, as opposed to the more leisurely pace of natural life, the...
- 1974
Look Park
Look Park61974HD
Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location...
- 1975
Hurrah for Light
Hurrah for Light01975HD
“People will fly to Europe to look at the adoration which Rembrandt, Caravaggio, La Tour paid to light—they will stand in awe in the...