Box 4

Scope and Contents 1 reel of 16mm film.Produced at Rice University. Students filming on location at the shooting of "McKenna's Gold". One of four Student films sponsored by Columbia Pictures.Copied from Eastman Kodak Film, probably at Geo W. Colburn Laboratory, Inc., Chicago, ILCredits: "A film by: David MacDougall Stars Omar Shariff, Gregory Peck Copyright: Highroad Pictures, Inc.One of four student films sponsored by Columbia Pictures and Carl Foreman,...

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1 reel of 16mm film.

Produced at Rice University. Set to an audio recording of President Richard Nixon's Cambodia Incursion address, this short shows an empty football stadium. The film uses visual references to Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will". Shot at the Rice University football stadium.

Production assistance:David Gerth, Scott Thomas, Hewey Wesley, Peter Yenne.

Harmonica: Steve Harf

Film by: Don Quaintance.

Scope and Contents 1 reel of 16mm film."In 1970 I went to New Orleans with Noel Parmentel to shoot fragments of the “The Moviegoer.” While we were down there my daughter Elspeth and I went to visit some friends of mine whose teenager daughter was to be Queen of a fancy Mardi Gras ball.   I didn’t know anything about this, but my friends thought it would be a nice idea if we filmed it. So we went over for an evening; black tie, dinner gown and all the rest of it. We changed a few light bulbs in the...

Scope and Contents 1 reel of 16mm film.Produced at Rice University. Documentary on MoMA's visiting exhibition "The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age" curated by the Swedish art collector Karl Gunnar Vougt Pontus Hultén and featuring artists such as Duchamp, Giacometti, Jean Tinguely, Moholy-Nagy and others. The exhibition was the first to take place at the newly constructed Art Barn at Rice University. Credits: Produced by Rice University in cooperation with KTRK-TV. Narrated by...

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1 reel of 16mm film.

Inspired by composer Erik Satie, this short uses the sounds and sights of Castro Street near the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California complete with diesel trains and gas plants, to convey the street's own mood and feel. (Wikipedia)

Scope and Contents 1 reel of 16mm film.Credits: Tom DeWitt, Manny Meyer, Michael McNamee, Scott BartlettAbstract experimental animation using electronic images, sound and the latest video tape techniques. Filters color to achieve an exceptionally sophisticated form of pure cinema. (archive.org)Off/On is considered one of the first works to combine film and video together. It was celebrated upon its release for both its technical ingenuity as much as for its artistic...

Scope and Contents 1 reel of 16mm film.Experimental short uses Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions. This reel was in bad shape, but was restored by Danny Stuyck as restoration project for class in film preservation at at UT Austin. This restoration made possible the current existence of the film which was pulled out of circulation after the Ray Charles...

Scope and Contents 1 reel of 16mm film."This film is made by students of Helen Foley, one of the high school teachers participating in the Media Center's outreach programs, which aimed at nurturing creative, technical and social skills in students across the state. Foley was one of the most prolific teachers taking part in these programs and she also took part in the Media Center's film programs with inmates in the Texan prison system.In the Houston area, this project was mainly carried...

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1 reel of 16mm film.

Content Description From the Collection:

Films and videos from Rice Media Center, created by Rice students and faculty, as well as visiting directors.