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Traces the career of the French director Abel Gance, from his uncertain beginnings through his creative…

Uses animation to depict Samuel Beckett's one-act mime entitled Act Without Words. Portrays the…

Examines some romantic illusions and pokes fun at mate-finding in a large, impersonal city.

…Special thanks to Janus Films. About the film: Set in 1840s rural New Hampshire, this Faustian…

Uses continuously accelerated motion and time-lapse photography to transform the city of Paris into new…

The various uses of sound and music as conscious and unconscious influences in the cinema are…

A sardonic allegory about tyranny and revolution. A greedy, swaggering bag devours every object in its…

A wry commentary on man's tendency to solve problems with a gun. Footage of animations…

Presents the question of definition and responsibilities of love as opposed to the feelings of sex

A Scottish gypsy boy finds that prejudice prevents his people from being accepted in a new…

Visits several diverse museums to document the basic functions of preservation, acquisition, exhibition, and education. Overviews…

Uses selections from the motion pictures Wild Strawberries, Alexander Nevsky, Dodes Ka-den, M, Dead Of…

Two school boys witness the escape of a thief and become involved in discovering his identity…

An examination of the life of actor and singer Paul Robeson, from his first major triumphs…

Uses selections from the motion pictures Richard III, Summertime, The Gold Rush, and La Strada to…

Uses excerpts from several films to stress the importance of the actor as one of the…

Focuses on the art of actor Alec Guinness. Includes segments from Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, The…

Uses sections from the motion pictures Oliver Twist, The 400 Blows, Metropolis, Pygmalion, and Caesar And…

…and The Film Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films, The Museum of Modern Art and The…

…Preservation credit: “Desert Hearts” (1986) Preserved by The Criterion Collection/Janus Films and the Archive in…

Presents excerpts from a number of feature films, including “Oliver Twist,” “Pygmalion,” “400 Blows,” and “Metropolis…

Perspective Films, 1975. Written, produced and edited by Saul J. Turrell and Jeff "Squirm" Lieberman. Home…

. The growth of Chaplin's genius as seen in his earliest works: "Making A Living, " "Kid…

Jazz band with dancers & gorilla ( African spoof from the film Blonde Venus with Marlene Dietrich) Lillian…

This film explores the role of women in Western filmmaking society. The first example is a…

A history of the cinema's treatment of women from the beginning of the movies to…

, Illustrates how various camera techniques and lighting methods used by different motion picture directors can be…

western, train chase scenes, silent film editing, cliffhanger, serials, slapstick brief documentary on the early development…

Shows the effect the director can have on the way a motion picture is interpreted from…