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Añoranzas

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Añoranzas", vals written and composed by José María Aguilar.

1930

The Great Philips Review

Puppet animation of Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra performing. A Puppetoon animated short film.

1938

Catalan

A short film created for Spanish TV touching on the subject of Catalonia's struggle for independence, interspersed with symbolic images.

1984

Night Flight: Born Again

Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most consistently weird and

2016

Ballet terrain vague

Short film based upon a ballet by Yves Bonnat & Françoise Adret

1957

Polka Graph

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute

1947

The Backyard Broadcast

In this short film, a boy holds a talent show in his backyard by and for his adolescent friends.

1936

Muse: The Making of Absolution

Behind the scenes taken from the original Absolution Special Edition CD + DVD.

2003

Shadows

Hansjürgen Pohland's short documentary is an audiovisual study that captures events and people on the streets on film. The special feature of the work

1960

DO

The Magic Sun

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-c

1966

Base Brawl

At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals

1948

Mardi Gras

The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would co

1943

Crescendo

2019

Daybreak Express

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway st

1953

The Ride to the Abyss

‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz.

1992

Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List

On the liner notes to Freak Out!, the 1967 debut album by Zappa's original band the Mothers of Invention, Zappa listed some seventy-two names on the l

2010

A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic

A simple filmed performance featuring Cantor, done up in his stage minstrel makeup, allegedly at the Ziegfeld Theatre Roof Garden, but actually filmed

1929

Nothing Escapes My Eyes

"Nothing Escapes My Eyes" is about a silent transformation of a place and a human being. Inspired by the texts of Edward W. Said, the poems of Mahmoud

2015

So This Is Harris!

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

1933