Visual Studies Workshop

Collection Type: Institution

Phone Number: 5852040077

Contact Email: marylewandowski@vsw.org

Collection Policy: VSW was founded in 1969 in Rochester, New York by photographer, educator and curator Nathan Lyons (1930–2016). Rooted in Lyons’ progressive vision of the “workshop idea,” VSW became one of the earliest independent, not-for-profit, artist-run spaces in the country. Since its inception, VSW has provided residencies to over 500 artists, produced more than 500 exhibitions, screened over 1,000 films and videos, and published more than 500 artists’ books through VSW Press. Additionally, we have educated over 1,000 students through workshops and our MA and MFA programs (1969–2022), and founded and published the periodical Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (1972-2018). Our media collections include over a million photography and film-related objects, making our small organization unique in the field.

4,579 films in this collection.

Title ▲	Year	Creator	Length	Format	Color	Sound
Shout It Out Alphabet Film, The	1969	IMARE	11 min.	16mm	Color
Shrine of a Nation: Westminster Abbey	1945	BRIINSE	14 min.	16mm	B&W
Sibling Relationships and Personality				16mm
Sibling Rivalries And Parents.	1956	McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc.	11 min.	16mm	B&W	sound
Sickle Cell Anemia (I)			20 min.	16mm
Sickle Cell Anemia (II)			20 min.	16mm
Signals Without Words ▶	1973	FILINC	15 min.	16mm	Color
Signs Are For Safety	1979	Barr	15 min.	16mm	Color
Silence Upstairs, The	1983	RHINES	13 min.	16mm	Color
Silent Night: Story of the Christmas Carol	1953	CORNET	13 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Silent Witness, The	1979	PYRMID	55 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Silicon and Its Compounds	1962	CORNET	14 min.	16mm	Color
Silver Into Gold	1987	Barr	24 min.	16mm	Color
Silver on the sage.	1939	Paramount Pictures Inc.	7 reels	16mm	B&W	sound
Simple molds	1954	Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor	0:10:00	16mm	Color	sound
Simplemente Jenny		Cinema Guild	33	16mm	Color	sound
Sinbad the Sailor	1947	Richard Wallace	112 min	16mm	Color
Singer Not the Song, The	1961	warner	129 min	16mm	Color
Singin' in the rain	1952	MGM/UA	103 min	16mm	Color	sound
Sinister Stairwells & Dark Passages				16mm
Sisyphus	1974	Mass Media Ministries \| Zagreb Films	0:09:00	16mm	Color	sound
Six Billion Dollar Sell	1976	CONREFI	15 min.	16mm	Color
Sixteen in Webster Groves ▶	1965	CBS News; Carousel Films		16mm
Sixth Sense	1985	EXAR	27 min.	16mm	Color
Sixties, The	1970	CHABR	15 min.	16mm	Color
Sixty Second Spot	1974	Mandlinfilm Inc	12:00	16mm	Color	sound
Skating Rink	2016	Learning Corporation of America	28 27 min	16mm	Color	sound
Skeleton	1988	BEAFI	26 min.	16mm	Color
Skeleton - Our Fantastic Framework		Stanton FIlms		16mm		sound
Ski School	1963	MACM	52 min.	16mm	B&W
Ski the Outer Limits	1968	BARCOR	28 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Skin: Its Structure and Function, The	1983	LCA	20 min.	16mm	Color
Sky Above				16mm
Sky Blue Water				16mm
Sky Capers	1968	FRED	15 min.	16mm	Color
Sky Dive	1979	PYRMID	15 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Sky is Gray, The			47 min.	16mm	Color
Sky's the Limit: with Dr. Wayne Dyer, The	1981	LCA	55 min.	16mm	Color
Slab City - A Very Special Town	1982	Wombat	29 min.	16mm	Color
Slapstick History Series				16mm
Slavery: Black Man and the Man			22 min.	16mm
Slavonic Dance in E-Minor				16mm
Sleep Happy	1951	Walter Lantz		16mm		sound
Sleep: The Fantastic Third of Your Life				16mm
Sleeping Beauty, Brier Rose, The			15 min.	16mm	Color
Sleeping Car To Trieste	1948	John Paddy Carstairs	95	16mm	B&W
Slice of Bread, A			13 min.	16mm
Slightly Honorable	1939	LCA	88 min.	16mm	B&W
Slingshot			20:00 min	16mm
Slow Train to the Olympiad	1983	FILINC	40 min.	16mm	Color