Precious Images (1986)

Directed by

Chuck Workman

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short film strings together hundreds of very brief clips from American movies spanning over eighty years. The clips are grouped by genre and paired with fitting music. It offers a rapid-fire tour of film history without any single storyline.

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What happens

Precious Images is a 1986 short film directed by Chuck Workman. It features approximately 470 half-second-long splices of movie moments through the history of American film. Some of the clips are organized by genre and set to appropriate music; musicals, for example, are accompanied by the title song from Singin' in the Rain. Films featured range chronologically from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to Rocky IV (1985), and range in subject from light comedies to dramas and horror films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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