Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for money prizes. Baby prepares for WW2. [Originally a 70mm projection-performance, 1982, by Ken and Flo Jacobs. From THRILLS AND CHILLS (Castle Films, c. 1930)].
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty ...
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...
Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his l...
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...
In his first one hundred days in office, in a effort to stem the effects of the Great Depression, Pr...
Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored b...
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...
Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of ...
As the unemployed Frank is sinking into depression, his son's naive but optimistic twist on the situ...
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career i...
First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but a...