Movie Making in Japan: A Screen Snap-shot at Fmovies. This fragmentary documentary was prepared at the request of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by Yoshio Osawa of the J.O. Studios in Kyoto, Japan, to illustrate current progress in Japanese sound picture technique. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct...
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Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to...
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A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors'...
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Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...
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Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
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Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy, and released by Warner...
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This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
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Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he felt the sovereignty of Sikkim was under threat...
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The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...
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This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain. ...
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This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973....