Pan 4 (1974)

"I have not changed the editing structure. I have made the films printable. They are the first known fully collaged films, i.e., films made from found footage, and were done sometime in the ‘40s. Cornell combines Vaudeville jugglers, animal acts, circus performers, children eating and dancing, science demonstrations, mythical excerpts, and crucial freeze-frames of faces into a timeless structure, totally unconcerned with our usual expectations of “montage” or cinematic progression. He collects images and preserves them in some kind of cinematic suspension that is hard – impossible – to describe. But it’s a delight to anyone whose soul has not been squashed by the heavy dictates of Art." —Larry Jordan

A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

The 8 minute short is open to interpretation as it examines the inner thoughts of several people around a table, with the Rita Hayworth version of Put the Blame on Mame playing on the soundtrack.

Clouds roll by in a static haze in this Hollis Frampton short film.

A pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop in this Hollis Frampton short film.

A six minute film of the funeral of the murdered Metropolitan Emilianos of Grevena, of which all has been lost, save for 17 seconds. Emilianos was murdered on October 1st, 1911.

An early sound film featuring Gus Visser and a duck.

A local council worker inspects three homes.

A parade of popular consumer items cut to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". A great example of Pop Art in film.

Further examining the medium of film itself, Colorfilm is a work Lawder made while trying to make a minimalist, "pure color" film. Using spliced-together strips of colored film leader in white, yellow, blue, red, green, etc., Lawder ran the film through a projector and found the results to be quite boring. While he was running the film, though, he noticed how beautiful the colored strips of film looked as they ran through the projector. So, he turned a camera on the projector and filmed the colored film gorgeously winding its way through the projector's machinery." - Noel Black, Colorado Springs Independent

A man talks about addiction to barbiturates.

We are taken on a journey through a field of corn in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

Rain falls and reflects the light in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

Short film which documents Marian Anderson's singing performance at the Lincoln Memorial.

London to Brighton in 4 minutes BBC interlude. From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished, the next one was not ready yet, and the gap had to be filled. So the BBC developed a number of interludes to fill these gaps, this being the most famous one.

A Berlin street scene.