Preserved Film Movies

This short is about a purple dinosaur named Sigmund, who likes to bounce on top of trees. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is bu...

Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970),Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly and brilliantly mixes documentary reality with full...

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America'...

An atmospheric tribute to the genius of Welsh poet and dramatist Dylan Thomas, using many of the windswept locations where Thomas himself grew up and...

Documentary about the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment...

In this Western, the sergeant takes his commander’s daughter on a horseback ride along the Merced River (which actually might be Oregon's Clackamas Ri...

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will b...

An old bearded man wearing a raincoat walks into a bar and sits down, placing a mysterious box next to him. The other patrons try, with varying succes...

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Stop-motion puppetry version of the classic fairy tale. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked o...

An abstract film in which every motion of coloured shapes is in strict synchronization with music. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

When his play closes down, an actor returns home to find that his children are gone. He's then notified that a wealthy relative has died and left him...

The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub,...

An experimental short film by John Whitney Sr. which combines animated shapes and colors; Computer graphics as dynamic, swirling art. Preserved by th...

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee),legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of...

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall...

Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.