A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors' responsibilities and the demands on their talents. They read a script carefully and design a set to capture the time and place, the social strata, and the mood. They must be scholars of the history of architecture, furnishings, and fashion. They choose the colors on a set in anticipation of the lighting and the mood. Their work also sets styles, from Art Deco in the 20's to 30s modernism. Then it's on to the next project. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...
This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy ...
Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...
Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Acad...
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...
Documentary short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Marshall Plan Collection, ...
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...
This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effor...
A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender perso...
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparat...
Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, ...
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...
A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings...
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "ch...
Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1...
Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen and mostly filmed in dee...