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Myra Hess (1945) Piano virtuosa Myra Hess performs Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, known as the "Appassionata", on stage in a concert hall. Hess performs only the first movement of the sonata.

Le grand Méliès (1952) A biography of the pioneer film director Georges Méliès, featuring his son André playing Georges, and with shots of his second wife, aged 90.

Donner Party: The Musical (2013) Snowbound and desperate, some of the Donner Party died of starvation. Some of them did not. They all sang.

Sculptor Sofu Teshigahara, father of filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara, prepares for an exhibition

Paperman 2012 An animated short that follows the story of a lonely young man in mid century New York City, whose destiny takes an unexpected turn after a chance meeting with a beautiful woman on his morning commute Convinced the girl of his dreams is gone forever, he gets a second chance when he spo

Cassis (1966) A camera is in a stationery position filming the lighthouse situated at the entrance of the harbor in Cassis, France. The resulting footage is shown time-lapsed, one day compressed into four minutes. The footage starts just before dawn and concludes just after night falls. The camera o

The Number on GreatGrandpas Arm (2018) A conversation between a boy and his great-grandfather, an Auschwitz survivor, is woven with historical footage and animation to tell a heartbreaking story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe,...

One Good Turn 1931 Stan and Ollie are down on their luck and beg at an old ladys house for food While they are eating they overhear a villainous landlord Finlayson threatening to evict her if she does not pay the mortgage Not realizing that they are hearing a rehearsal for a play, the boys decide to

Paul Robeson Tribute to an Artist 1979 An examination of the life of actor and singer Paul Robeson, from his first major triumphs on the stage in the 1920s through his gradually increasing social activism in the 1930s and 1940s, leading to his controversial performances in Eastern Europe in the 1940

Singapore Sue (1932) Four sailors enter a Singapore dive, meet a Chinese girl from Brooklyn, and find there's more to her than meets the eye. Two songs.

Four in the Afternoon (1951) Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch. As a girl skips rope in "Game Little Gladys," she sings a jingle about who she might marry. In a park, ten men appear atop low pedestals. Is one her future? In "Gardene

Rue Daguerre in 2005 (2005) In 2005, filmmaker Agnès Varda revisited the Rue Daguerre where she used to live 30 years earlier and had interviewed the shopkeepers for her film Daguerreotypes, to see how things might ...

The Letter Room 2020 At last, Richard, a solitary and compassionate corrections officer with a heart of gold, has been promoted to Director of Prisoner Communications As Richard quickly gets the hang of his new job as master of the letter room, scanning all the incoming and outgoing correspondence o

How to Sleep (1935) A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research on sleep, including a

Meditation on Violence (1949) A young Oriental man with a headscarf and bare torso shadowboxes indoors in front of a series of unadorned walls, light, dark, both shades. He is then shown exercising outside with a sword in an area surrounded by a low stone wall and overlooking a river, before there i

Black and Tan (1929) Duke Ellington in a jazz musical short with a tragic plotline.

How to Play Baseball (1942) Goofy shows us the national pastime. After a brief overview, we have a demonstration of the many possible pitches. On to the World Series, where we go through an eventful inning, culminating in a baseball that disintegrates when being hit.

Porky Daffy 1938 Daffy Duck, who only seems to awaken to the sound of a struck platter cover, is a boxer managed by Porky Pig, who boxes against a champion rooster in a widely commercialized event His techniques include using crazy antics, dirty tricks and sight gags

Berth Marks 1929 Big time so they think vaudeville stars Stanley and Oliver take the train to Pottsville, their next booking On board, they bumble into the wrong sleeping compartment, startling a semi dressed woman Her irate husband mistakes another passenger for the intruder and starts a coat rippi

Making Fashion (1938) Humphrey Jennings shoots Hartnell catwalk.

Strawberry Shortcake Berry Fairy Tales 2006 Join your berry best friend, Strawberry Shortcake, and her favorite pals, on another fun adventure and meet some wonderful new fairy friends Strawberry is thrilled to meet Margalo, the fairy who brings color to all berries that is, until she learns from he

English Harvest (1938) The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971) Frampton burning slowly his an nostalgia black and white photograph who his taken on a hot plate.

Crime Control (1941) A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders that have recently been brought in. Shoelaces, for example, have an objectionable habit of breaking at crucial moments. The officer

Notes on the Circus (1966) The short film is a montage of sped up video clips of The Ringling Brothers Circus in action set to a musical track. The film is separated into four segments, each segment which focuses on ...

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The Hedonists (2016) An engaging drama about several unemployed Shanxi coalminers looking for work.

Broken Bird 2020 Birdie is a biracial girl raised by her mom in a NJ suburb She spends a visitation day with her father, and debates inviting him back into her life as she prepares for her Bat Mitzvah and adulthood

Red Hot Riding Hood 1943 The characters of the traditional fairy tale absolutely refuse to do the tale in the same old way Instead, Little Red Riding Hood is transformed to the hottest singer in town, the wolf becomes The Wolf, and grandma turns into a man chaser

Islands of the West (1972) A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.

Harlekin 1931 out of 4This twenty five minute animation film from director Lotte Reiniger is certainly a real treat for the eyes The animation is done via silhouette and the use of stop motion and the story is about lover who meet, fall in love, struggle and we see their love blossom over a period o

End of Summer (2014) Shot on black and white super 8 film, 'End of Summer' is a hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Filmed as a series of mostly static tableaux over a period of 20 days during the waning days of

Joop is sleeping in the apartment of his friend Bernard He is waken up by a woman who is looking for Bernard Later they babysit the neighbors granddaughter

Chef Donald (1941) Donald is listening to a radio cooking program and mixes up a batch of waffles, but he's distracted and uses rubber cement instead of baking powder. The batter proves to be unusually stiff... His spoon gets stuck, and the batter acts like a rubber-band airplane, flying the bowl ar

DL2 reflects the influence of the American Bauhaus movement in Chicago introduced by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy during the late 30s/early 40s. The fim was made by shocking ten-foot strips of unprocessed black and white film into tanks of cold water, fixer, hot water, developer and then repeating the process.

An Optical Poem (1938) A dance of shapes. A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form. Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" is the music. The shapes, all two-dimensional, are circles primarily, with some squares and rectangles, and a

Bearly Asleep (1955) Park ranger Donald sends his bears off to hibernate, but Humphrey would rather stay in his hammock, run out for a glass of water, etc., than sleep; when he does get to sleep, his snoring gets him thrown out. His search for a new bed leads him right into the ranger's house.

Eaux dartifice (1953) A woman dressed elegantly walks purposely through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, as the music of Vivaldi's "Winter" movement of "The Four Seasons" plays. Heavy red filters give a blue cast to the light; water plays across stone, and fountains send it into the

Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio Handcarved Cinema 2022 NA

Laura Hasnt Slept 2020 Desperate to rid herself of a recurring nightmare, a young woman seeks the help of her therapist

The Fleet That Came to Stay 1945 Well before he made the Westerns for which he would primarily be remembered, director Budd Boetticher put together this documentary of World War IIs Battle of Okinawa from footage shot by Navy cameramen in the thick of the fighting The vital editing skills Boetticher

How to Watch Football (1938) A man with pipe and smoking jacket relaxes in his easy chair as he listens to a football game on the radio. The announcer wishes everyone was with him at the stadium. With that, the fan at home dreams of a recent trip to the stadium to watch a game with his date. They en

The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam

Maioria Absoluta (1964) Statistics, interviews and historical information on illiteracy and inequality in land distribution in Brazil's countryside.

La Disparition 2020 NA

English farmers plant crops on formerly disused land to assist the war effort

A Christmas Dream (1946) Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that night she has a dream. Or isn't it a dream...

Just before World War II begins, a British merchantman makes her rounds in the Mediterranean Sea