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src="/userfiles/image/preserved-films/Broken-Barriers-poster.jpg" width="240" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="caption"><em>Broken Barriers</em> (1919), the first motion-picture adaptation of the Sholem Aleichem story that inspired <em>Fiddler on the Roof</em>, will be preserved by the National Center for Jewish Film with support from the NFPF.</div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <em>16 Millimeter Earrings</em> (1979), filmed recreation of Meredith Monk’s multimedia solo performance (Yale University).</li> <li><em>About Us</em> (1972), collaboratively-made anthology of self-portraits by Robert Frank and his students (Visual Studies Workshop).</li> <li><em>Adirondack Holiday</em> (1960), sponsored film from the Essex County Chamber of Commerce to promote tourism in Adirondack Park (Adirondack Council).</li> <li><em>Alan Lomax Choreometrics Films</em> (late 1960s), seven training films for a dance analysis method developed by Alan Lomax (Association for Cultural Equity).</li> <li><em>ALSOS Mission Films</em> (1943–45), footage documenting the secret task force that investigated Nazi Germany’s atomic bomb program and secured the surrender of Thanheim (Hoover Institution, Stanford University).</li> <li><em>American Revolution II</em> (1969), Film Group documentary on the alliance between the Black Panthers and Chicagoans from a white working class neighborhood (Chicago Film Archives).</li> <li><em>Arrow Game</em> (1974), documentation of Yanomamo children’s games by filmmaker Timothy Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (Documentary Educational Resources).</li> <li><em>Bathers</em> (1960), Beryl Sokoloff’s lyrical portrait of visitors to Coney Island (Silver Bow Art).</li> <li><em>The Birds of Grenfelland</em> (ca.1931), documentation of ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross’s research in Newfoundland and Labrador, featuring medical missionary Sir Wilfred Grenfell (Bowdoin College).</li> <li><em>The Brink</em> (1960), lyrical love story by Beat poet ruth weiss (Pacific Film Archive).</li> <li><em>Broken Barriers</em> (1919), silent feature adaptation of the Sholem Aleichem story that became <em>Fiddler on the Roof</em> (National Center for Jewish Film).</li> <li><em>Canyon de Chelly</em> (1924), filmed exploration of the National Monument’s rock formations and Navajo culture by archeologist Neil Judd (National Geographic Society).</li> <li><em>Children’s Magical Death</em> (1974), footage of Yanomamo children imitating their shaman fathers by filmmaker Timothy Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (Documentary Educational Resources).</li> <li><em>Clarence Erwin Rusch Collection</em> (1934–42), home movies of a Bureau of Indian Affairs teacher among the Koyukon people of rural Alaska (Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association).</li> <li><em>Climbing the Peach Palm </em>(1974), filmmaker Timothy Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon’s observational study of Yanomamo tool use (Documentary Educational Resources).</li> <li><em>Closed Chest Defibrillation</em> (1961), promotional film for the first external defibrillator designed and used at Johns Hopkins (Johns Hopkins University).</li> <li><em>Code Blue</em> (1972), recruitment film to bring minorities into the medical profession by Blackside Inc., producer of <em>Eyes on the Prize</em> (Washington University in St. Louis).</li> <li><em>Cornelia Chapin Collection</em> (1932–39), home movies by the artist known for her direct-carved animal sculptures (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).</li> <li><em>Decision for Happiness</em> (1958), sponsored film about a young woman’s decision to join the Sisters of St. Agnes convent in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes).</li> <li> </li> <li><em>Diaries</em> (1971–76), Ed Pincus’s self-reflexive portrait of five years of marriage and family life (Harvard Film Archive).</li> <li><em>The Don Perry Collection</em> (1968–69), nine films documenting the 1968 and 1969 New Orleans International Jazz Festivals (Louisiana Museum Foundation).</li> <li><em>Earthly Possessions</em> (1992), experimental gothic tale by Pelle Lowe (Bard College).</li> <li> <table align="right" width="240"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="Diaries (1971–76)" height="179" src="/userfiles/image/preserved-films/Ed-Pincus-Diaries.jpg" width="240" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="caption"><em>Diaries</em> (1971–76), Ed Pincus’s self-reflexive portrait of five years of marriage and family life, will be preserved by the Harvard Film Archive with support from the NFPF.</div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <em>The Editor’s Notebook</em> (1950), promotional film about the <em>Chicago Daily News</em> in its Pulitzer Prize–winning heyday (Chicago Film Society).</li> <li><em>A Father Washes His Children</em> (1974), observational study of a Yanomamo headman by filmmaker Timothy Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (Documentary Educational Resources).</li> <li><em>The Flashettes</em> (1977), Bonnie Friedman’s empowering documentary about a Brooklyn track team of underprivileged African American girls (New York Public Library).</li> <li><em>George Sealy, Jr. Collection</em> (1931), Galveston civic leader’s Kodacolor footage of the 1931 Pageant of Pulchritude, a Miss Universe precursor (Texas Archive of the Moving Image).</li> <li><em>The Heath Hen</em> (ca.1932), rare footage of the last surviving Heath Hen, nicknamed Booming Ben (Bowdoin College).</li> <li><em>Immigrant</em> (1960), Beryl Sokoloff’s vision of New York as seen through the eyes of a stranger (Silver Bow Art).</li> <li><em>The Inner World of Aphasia</em> (1968), innovative medical training film on treating language impairment that was named to the National Film Registry (Indiana University).</li> <li><em>Laserimage</em> (1971–72), Ivan Dryer’s celluloid forerunner to the <em>Laserium</em> light show (New York University).</li> <li><em>Life in Your Hands</em> (1961), instructional film for training rescue teams in CPR (Johns Hopkins University).</li> <li><em>Love or Justice</em> (1917), silent melodrama produced by Thomas Ince, involving a drug-addicted lawyer’s redemption by a woman from the underworld (George Eastman Museum).</li> <li><em>Magical Death</em> (1973), documentation of Yanomamo shamanism by anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon and filmmaker Timothy Asch (Documentary Educational Resources).</li> <li><em>A Man and His Wife Weave a Hammock</em> (1975), observational study of Yanomamo daily life and crafts by filmmaker Timothy Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (Documentary Educational Resources).</li> <li><em>A Man Called “Bee”</em> (1974), Timothy Asch’s documentation of Napoleon Chagnon’s fieldwork among the Yanomamo (Documentary Educational Resources).</li> <li><em>Miracle in a Month</em> (1946), home movies showing a young boy before and after a “blue baby” operation to cure a heart defect (Johns Hopkins University).</li> <li><em>Modern Taxidermy: Mounting an Indian Elephant</em> (1926–27), footage of taxidermist Louis Jonas at work in the Museum studio (American Museum of Natural History).</li> <li><em>Montana’s On the Go</em> (1956), promotional film showing Governor J. Hugo Aronson on the Montana campaign trail for reelection (Montana Historical Society).</li> <li><em>Moonblood: A Yanomano Creation Myth</em> (1976), exploration of Yanomamo mythology by anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon and filmmaker Timothy Asch (Documentary Educational Resources).</li> <li><em>My Girlfriend’s Wedding</em> (1969), Jim McBride’s experimental and autobiographical documentary (Anthology Film Archives).</li> <li><em>Poland Postwar 1949</em> (1949), documentation of the Jewish Distribution Committee’s humanitarian activities before it was forced out by the postwar communist government (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee).</li> <li><em>Preparing a Museum Group</em> (1950), step-by-step documentation of a diorama being assembled for the Hall of North American Mammals (American Museum of Natural History).</li> <li><em>Pueblo Bonito</em> (1922), footage of the New Mexico expedition led by archaeologist Neil Judd to explore the pre-Columbian great house (National Geographic Society).</li> <li><em>Robert and Anne Heighe Collection</em> (late 1920s), home movies from a Maryland Thoroughbred farm depicting champion racehorses Man O’ War and Durbar II (Historical Society of Harford County).</li> <li><em>The Savages</em> (1967), ironically titled cinema verité documentary about the impoverished African American community of West Venice, California (UCLA Film & Television Archive).</li> <li><em>Scenes from the Tap City Circus</em> (1960), mixed-media artist Paul Beattie’s experimental portrait of assemblage-sculptor George Herms at work (Pacific Film Archive).</li> <li><em>Smoke</em> (1995), abstract exploration of individuality by Pelle Lowe (Bard College).</li> <li><em>Solo Olos</em> (1978), Trisha Brown’s experimental solo dance, as filmed by Babette Mangolte (Trisha Brown Dance Company).</li> <li><em>South American Children’s Colony</em> (1944) footage of a Buenos Aires children’s home for German-speaking Jewish refugees (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee).</li> <li><em>Surgical Treatment of Coarctation of the Aorta</em> (1947), earliest known footage of the procedure for correcting the congenital heart defect (Johns Hopkins University).</li> <li><em>A Thimble of Goodbye</em> (1960), Dadaist “film poem” by Paul Beattie (Pacific Film Archive).</li> <li><em>Tomb</em> (1961), musical collage film by Beryl Sokoloff (Silver Bow Art).</li> <li><em>Troublemakers</em> (1966), Norman Fruchter and Robert Machover’s documentary about community organizing in the Central Ward neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey (The Flaherty).</li> <li><em>Wayne Mitsch Collection</em> (1969–70) home movies of the 75th Infantry Airborne Ranger Reconnaissance Team in central Vietnam (Nashville Public Library).</li> <li><em>Weeding the Garden</em> (1974), documentation of everyday Yanomamo life by filmmaker Timothy Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (Documentary Educational Resources).</li> <li><em>Wilson-Hibbs Oil Speech</em> (1956), documentation of Governor J. Hugo Aronson’s stance on oil and gas leasing in Montana (Montana Historical Society).</li> <li><em>Yaqui Fieldwork Collection</em> (1938–55), earliest known footage of Yaqui life in Sonora, filmed during expeditions led by Museum director W. 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