With the Marines at Tarawa

Girls Taking Time Checks

April 1904 •English

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

Woodshock

June 1985 •English

It's just a simple stretch of interviews and images capturing the people who camp out, dope up, drink up, sometimes get naked, and jump into a nearby waterfall, whilst listening to musicians like Daniel Johnston.

2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

October 1984 •French

Made for the centenary of France’s trade union laws, Chris Marker’s 2084 imagines a future in which a computer looks back on the labor movement of the 20th century. Mixing documentary reflection with speculative fiction, the film envisions contrasting paths for the future of workers and unions.

Ten Minutes Older

May 1978 •

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces.

On the Road with Duke Ellington

December 1974 •English

Documentary portrait of the legendary jazz bandleader. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.

That Wasn't Me

April 2012 •English

Aquél no Era Yo [That Wasn't Me] is a 2012 Spanish short film directed by Esteban Crespo. It tells the story of Paul and Kaney. Two characters, an African child and a Spanish woman, who could have nothing in common, but will get to join their lives forever through a life-giving shot. Kaney is an African child soldier. He lives with many child soldiers and obeys the orders given by the man who has become like their father, the General of the Rebel Army. Paula is a Spanish aid worker who moved to Africa following her boyfriend, Juanjo, in order to bring help and to rescue the child soldiers who live there. In a border crossing point, Paula and Kaney meet each other and this will be the starting point of this dramatic story, full of fear, violence and redemption. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)

January 1984 •

In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected. The stringing together of the individual developed sections make up the new film, which reads the original frame like a page from a musical score: within the strips from top to bottom and sequentially from left to right.

Memories of a Mexican

August 1950 •Spanish

A history of the Mexican Revolution (1910-17), narrated through the striking images of the enormous film archive of Salvador Toscano (1872-1947), pioneer of Mexican cinema, compiled by his daughter, Carmen Toscano.

Rhythm

January 1957 •English

Intended as a publicity film for Chrysler, Rhythm uses rapid editing to speed up the assembly of a car, synchronizing it to African drum music. The sponsor was horrified by the music and suspicious of the way a worker was shown winking at the camera; although Rhythm won first prize at a New York advertising festival, it was disqualified because Chrysler had never given it a television screening. P. Adams Sitney wrote, “Although his reputation has been sustained by the invention of direct painting on film, Lye deserves equal credit as one of the great masters of montage.” And in Film Culture, Jonas Mekas said to Peter Kubelka, “Have you seen Len Lye’s 50-second automobile commercial? Nothing happens there…except that it’s filled with some kind of secret action of cinema.” - Harvard Film Archive

Head of Procession Including Bluejackets

January 1897 •English

Head of Colonial Procession

January 1897 •English

Royal Carriages Passing Westminster

January 1897 •English

Caped Mounted Riflemen Passing St Paul's

January 1897 •English

Dragoons Passing St Paul's

January 1897 •English

Royal Carriage Arriving at St Paul's

January 1897 •English

Royal Princes in St. Paul's Churchyard

January 1897 •English

Queen's Carriage and Indian Escort Arriving at St. Paul's

January 1897 •English

Life Guards and Princes North of St Paul's

January 1897 •English

Women Fetching Water from the Nile

January 1897 •English

The Launch of H.M.S. Albion

January 1898 •English

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.