Florence

Florence is a contemplative study of light and shadows, textures and planes, that makes beautiful use of the tonal qualities of black and white film. (mubi.com)

The Creation Of Life

This silent film from 1948 "The Creation of Life" briefly demonstrates how a fetus forms and graphically shows different types of births. It was made by Sherwood Picture Corp., and may have been sold both to schools and professional organizations for medical education, and to the public for shock value. (Several similar birth films were sold in this era through home catalogs and photography shops.) Summary: By means of diagrams, conceptions and pregnancy are explained. Views of various methods of delivery are shown. Created by: T. Marc Sherwood

A Trip to Paramountown

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.

Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)

A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film is rich with truly wonderful visions: a thick, white porcelain cup perched on a ship's rail, the tea within swaying gently in sync with the ship while the sea rushes by beyond…the faces of crewmen posing awkwardly but also movingly for the camera; a cockfight on ship; scenes from a bucolic pre–Pol Pot Phnom Penh. Images has the haunting elegiac resonance of Eugène Atget's Paris, the echo of a time and place that was." - MoMA

Советский Таджикистан: Международный день молодёжи

Events that took place in the capital of the Tajik SSR, the city of Dushanbe in 1929.

Советский Таджикистан: Прибытие первого поезда в Душанбе

On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the first that day - the shots of the arrival of the locomotive, as well as people waiting for it with excitement, became the basis of the first Tajik film.

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View on Boulevard, New York City

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars lend interest to the scene.

Ala - Dad

An outdoor gathering.

Monterey '84

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

Disabuse

Abstract short.

Sprockets

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

BC

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

Cold Day with Chuck

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Garbage

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

Atlanta Nat Convention

Filmed during the 52nd National Convention of the American National Association of Letter Carriers in August 1980.

9 de Abril

Register of the events which occurred between 9 and 15 April 1948 in Bogota as a result of the assassination of political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

Among the igloo dwellers

Expeditions in the Western Canadian Arctic

Collards Garden, 1985

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

Michigan

Farm work and nature.