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
Small One, The	1978	WDISNEY	26 min.	16mm	Color
Smaller than Life	1965	BBC	62 min.	16mm	B&W
Smallest Elephant in the World, The	1964	STERL	8 min	16mm	Color	sound
Smile For Auntie	1979	Weston Woods	5	16mm	Color
Smiley	1979	THIEYFI	20 min.	16mm	Color
Smith System of Space Cushion Driving	1968	FORMOCO	18 min.	16mm	Color	sound
SMPTE jiffy test film.			1:55	16mm		sound
Snookles	1986	PYRMID	2 min	16mm	Color
Snort History, A ▶		Colorado Dept Of Highways	7 min	16mm		sound
Snow Monkeys of Japan	1975	AIMS	8 min	16mm	Color	sound
Snowbound	1977	Learning Corporation of America	50	16mm	Color	sound
Snowdonia	2017	International Film Bureau	0:16:00	16mm	Color	sound
Snowman, The	1982	Weston	26 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Snowshoeing	1968	STERL	12 min.	16mm	Color
Snowy Day, The		Weston Woods	6 min	16mm		sound
So little time	1967	ORE. DEPT. FISH & WILDLIFE	23	16mm	Color
So This is London	1939	Thornton Freeland	70 min	16mm	B&W
Soapbox Derby	1970	STERL	64 min.	16mm	B&W
Soccer U.S.A.	1981	LCA	25 min.	16mm	Color
Social Acceptability		Crawley Films Ltd \| CRM/McGraw-Hill Films	0:22:00	16mm	B&W	sound
Sociobiology: The Human Animal	1977	TLF	57 min.	16mm	Color
Sodom and Gomorrah	1979	Lucern	50 min.	16mm	Color
Soft As Movement				16mm
Soft Skin, The	1964		117 min	16mm
Solar energy : how it works	1980	Churchill Films: Distributor	0:16:00	16mm	Color	sound
Soldier girls	1981	Churchill	87	16mm	Color	sound
Soldier's Home	1976	Learning In Focus	41	16mm	Color
Solo ▶	1971	Pyramid	15 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Solo Flight	1972	FRASE	15 min.	16mm	Color
Solving Problems with Quadratic Formulas				16mm
Some Talk About Pool Rooms and Gin Mills			28 min.	16mm
Someone I Once Knew	1983	MTI	30 min.	16mm	Color
Something Queer In The Library	1978	bosust	10 min.	16mm	Color
Something to Shout About: 1987 Buffalo Bills	1987	NFLFIVI	25 min.	16mm	Color
Son of Cleopatra, The (reel 3 of 3)	1964		103 min	16mm
Son of the Shiek	1926	BLACK	27 min.	16mm	B&W
Song of the canary	1978	Manteca	58	16mm	Color	sound
Song of the Paddle	1979	WISEDCOB	41 min.	16mm	Color
Song of the Prairie	1951	Textur	19 min.	16mm	Color
Sons of the desert	1933	Eastin Phelan Corporation: Publisher \| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp	1:06:00	16mm	B&W	sound
Soon There Will Be No More Me	1972	Church	10 min.	16mm	Color
Sorcerer's Apprentice, The	1981	WDISNEY	14 min.	16mm	Color
Sorcerer’s Apprentice	1962	Lisl Weil	14 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Sort of a Commercial for an Iceberg				16mm
Soul Soldier	1970	John Cardos		16mm	Color
Sound Effects 1				16mm
Sound of Sunshine, Sound of Rain	1983	FLMFAI	15 min.	16mm	Color	sound
South Africa Belongs to Us	1980	Gerhard Schmidt Productions	58	16mm	Color	sound
South America: a new look	1985	International Film Foundation	25	16mm	Color	sound
South of Santa Fe	1942	Joseph Kane	65 min.	16mm	B&W	Sound