Bay Area filmmakers and Canyon Cinema co-founders Ben Van Meter and Bruce Conner were invited to L.A. to talk about Underground Film on the Art Linkletter Show.

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film A...
A behind-the-scenes look at the responsibilities of the cinematographer. Preserved by the Academy F...

This short on movie sound men starts with a short history of sound in the movies. We then see how th...

A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War...

This film, photographed and edited by Les Blank, produced and directed by Pieter Van Deusen, documen...

Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1...

Documentary short detailing the American soldier's part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this...

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Ar...
This film reveals through flashbacks how a 13-year-old boy and his family attempt to deal with the c...

The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life...

Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-procl...

On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her...

Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen and mostly filmed in dee...

An experimental short film by John Whitney Sr. which combines animated shapes and colors; Computer g...

First person view of a man, seen only in shadow, attempting to connect with the world around him. Pr...

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. I...

The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visua...

First the Beaulieu documentation of the shoot, then the Arri footage, the porn loop, and the reprise...
This is one of those abstract animated films in which colored, richly textured light moves in a blac...

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. "S. Brakhage, entering...