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.

4,581 films in this collection.

Title ▲	Year	Creator	Length	Format	Color	Sound
Wall Street: Where the Money IS	1966	Church	51 min.	16mm	B&W
Walrus and the Carpenter, The	1978	Lucern	6 min	16mm	Color
Walt Disney's Haunted Halloween				16mm
Walter Gropius	1958	Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation	28	16mm	B&W	sound
Walter, the lazy mouse	1972	Sterling Educational Films	14	16mm	Color	sound
Waltz of the Toreadors	1962	LCA	105 min	16mm	Color
War Comes to America		National Audiovisual Center	67 min.	16mm	B&W	sound
War Comes to America part 2				16mm
War Game, The	1966	LCA	49 min.	16mm	B&W
War of 1812				16mm
War Without Winners		600 Maryland SW Capitol Gallery West	28 29 min	16mm	Color	sound
War Years: Fabulous 1939, then Global Conflict, The	1976	Thorn	35 min.	16mm	Color
Washington Irving	1949	Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation: Distributor \| Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor	0:17:39	16mm	B&W	sound
Washington, D.C.--Story of Our Capital	1956	Coronet Films	11	16mm	B&W	sound
Washington, D.C.: Capital City, U.S.A.	1964	ebec	22 min.	16mm	Color
Watch Out For My Plant		Barr	14 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Water	1980	EASTMAN KODAK	26 min.	16mm	Color
Water	1948	Department of Agriculture	11 min.	16mm	B&W	Optical sound
Water: A Precious Resource		Natl Geographic Society	23 min.	16mm		sound
Waters of Time				16mm
Wattsie				16mm
Wavelength	1967	American Federation of Arts.	45 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Waves on Water	1965	Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp	22	16mm	Color	sound
Way of a Ship, The				16mm
Way Out West	1937	Hal Roach Studios Inc	1:06:00	16mm	B&W	sound
Way Stations In Space		United World Films inc.		16mm		sound
Ways of Seeing, Program 1	1974	Thorn	31 min.	16mm	Color
Ways of Seeing, Program 2	1974	Thorn	31 min.	16mm	Color
Ways of Seeing, Program 3	1974	Thorn	31 min.	16mm	Color
Ways of Seeing, Program 4	1974	Thorn	31 min.	16mm	Color
Ways to Find Out	1970	Church	10 min.	16mm	Color
We Called Them Brother	1975	Kodak	19 min.	16mm	Color
We Live In the City			7 min	16mm
We Said We'd be Back				16mm
We Shall Overcome			10 min.	16mm
We Too Receive		Cathedral Films Inc / Outreach Films		16mm		sound
We Used to Call it Printing	1969	ASSOC	23 min.	16mm	Color
We'll Make Our Own Team		Xerox Films.	21 min.	16mm	Color	sound
We're Here Now	1983	filmlib	35 min.	16mm	Color
We're Number One	1981		5 min	16mm	Color
Weapons of Gordon Parks		Forma Warren	28 min.	16mm		sound
Weather - Air in Action Part II (Pressure and Humidity)				16mm
Wedding Bells	1976	Lucern	16 min.	16mm	Color
Wedding Rachael	1956			16mm
Week Full of Saturdays, A	1979	FILMLI	17 min.	16mm	Color
Week in France, A	1973	Church	17 min.	16mm	Color
Weekend Prisoner	1982		40:00 min	16mm	Color
Weight Lifters				16mm
Weight Reduction Through Diet	1951	National Dairy Council	560	16mm	Color	sound
Well Spent Life, A	1971	Flower	44 min.	16mm	Color