ca. 1975, 35mm, color, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
ca. 1975, 35mm, color, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
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Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
A continuous movement. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
A compilation of four Mother Goose stories "photographed in three-dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose herself magically setting up a projector to show the films. The familiar nursery rhymes are "Little Miss Muffet," "Old Mother Hubbard," "The Queen of Hearts," and "Humpty Dumpty." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
1972, color, sound, 6 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
color, sound, 15 min., never shown. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
1973, color, sound, 6 min., aka Immaculate Gate. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
1973, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
ca. 1973-4, b/w, silent, 9 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
ca. 1974, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
1975, b/w, sound, 3 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
On Christmas Eve, a lonely young boy, shut out from the shiny world of presents and holiday parties, peers into a candlelit window, where a gray-haired lady sits sadly at a bare table. Taking the last bit of bread and cheese from his pocket and adding wine, they share this meager Christmas dinner together. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
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.
Things coaxed into light in roughly the order they were encountered. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.