PAST PROGRAMS – 1993

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Changing the Picture: The Emergence of African Americans in Television
January 9–March 28, 1993
View details »     1950s MUSIC PROGRAM 1
The Billy Daniels Show
Goodyear Jazz Concert with Louis Armstrong
Dorothy Dandridge (Colgate Comedy Hour)
The Larks (The Perry Como Show)
Sarah Vaughan (Stars on Parade)
Diahann Carroll (Coke Time)
Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald (The Ed Sullivan Show)
Sarah Vaughan, the Martha Davis Trio, Herb Jeffries, and Arthur Lee Simpkins (Snader Telescriptions)
"God's Trombones" (The Fred Waring Show)

1950s COMEDY STEREOTYPES
The Jack Benny Show
Beulah
Amos 'n' Andy
Trouble with Father: "TV Comes to the Erwins"

MARTIN LUTHER KING BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Free at Last
The Negro and the American Promise: Interviews of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin by Kenneth Clark
"I Have a Dream" Speech

1950s MUSIC PROGRAM 2
The Nat King Cole Show
Showtime at the Apollo
Marian Anderson (Standard Hour)
Lionel Hampton (The Johnny Otis Show)

1950s CIVIL RIGHTS ON TV
Degree of Difference
Clete Roberts Special Report: "The Human Explosion"
Eisenhower Election Eve Special
"Dinner with the President"

1960s MUSIC
TV Gospel Time
Mahalia Jackson Sings the Story of Christmas
ABC Special: "The Singers"
Diahann Carroll (Hollywood Palace)
The Supremes (Tarzan)
Marvin Gaye and the Dixie Cups (Hollywood a Go Go)
Harry Belafonte (The Dinah Shore Special)

1960s DRAMA PROGRAM 1
Channing: "Freedom Is a Lovesome Thing, God Wot!"
Profiles in Courage: "Frederick Douglass"

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
Children's Television Workshop
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle: "The Magic Bag"
Discovery '69: "A Matter of Pride"
I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali: "Super Star"
Gettin' to Know Me: "The Naming of Kwame"

OSSIE DAVIS AND RUBY DEE ON TELEVISION
Now Is the Time
With Ossie and Ruby
The Defenders: "Star Spangled Ghetto"
Peyton Place
For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story

SAMMY DAVIS JR.
GE Theater: "Auf Wiedersehn"
The Lawman: "Blue Boss and Willie Shay"
Colgate Comedy Hour
Soupy Sales

1960s DRAMA PROGRAM 2
Route 66: "Good Night, Sweet Blues"
East Side, West Side: "No Hiding Place"

THE GLARING LIGHT: TELEVISION COVERAGE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 1956–1967
Feedback
The Fourth Man
Same Mud, Same Blood

BILL COSBY WEEKEND
Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed
I Spy
The Bill Cosby Show
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
The New Bill Cosby Show

THE VARIETY-COMEDY SHOW
The Flip Wilson Show
The Richard Pryor Show
In Living Color
Def Comedy Jam

PRODUCED BY LEAR AND YORKIN
Good Times
Sanford and Son
The Jeffersons
Palmerstown, U.S.A.

BLACK SPORTS HEROES
Brooklyn Dodgers (The Ed Sullivan Show)
Althea Gibson Wins Wimbledon
Harlem Globetrotters and Harlem Globegirls
1964 Muhammad Ali-Sonny Liston Championship Fight

BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION
Behind the Scenes of Spike Lee's Malcolm X
Music Videos
Lead Story
For Black Men Only
Our Voices
Teen Summit

FEATURE FILMS AND OTHER SCREENINGS
The Green Pastures
The Sophisticated Gents
Black Journal
Pioneer of Color: A Conversation with Mal Goode
See It Now: "Clinton and the Law"
Walk in My Shoes
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
The Phenomenon of Roots
The White Shadow: Coolidge Goes to Hollywood
Product Commercials from the 1950s Through the 1970s
Sister, Sister
Creativity with Bill Moyers: Maya Angelou
Julia: "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas"
The Bill Cosby Show: "Christmas Ballad"
Soul
Jesse Jackson on Donahue
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Arsenio Hall Show
The Outcasts: "Take Your Lover in the Ring"
Shaft
My Sweet Charlie
Harris and Company: "The Loneliest Night of the Week"
The Loss of Our Warrior

The Intensity of an Actor: An Al Pacino Retrospective
February 27–March 14, 1993
View details »     The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
The Godfather: Part III
The Local Stigmatic
Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
...And Justice for All
Scarface
Revolution
Dick Tracy
Frankie and Johnny
Glengarry Glen Ross

A Haskell Wexler Retrospective
April 3–25, 1993
View details »     The Savage Eye
America, America
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
In the Heat of the Night
Bound for Glory
The Bus
Enhanced Radiation
Coming Home
Introduction to the Enemy
The Loved One
Medium Cool
Blaze
American Graffiti
The Babe
Matewan
Colors

What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Tradition
May 1–July 4, 1993
View details »     Stand Up and Cheer!, with shorts: Maybe I'm Wrong and Between the Acts at the Opera
Hollywood Party, with Fred Allen's Prize Playlets, For Sale, and Lambchops
Kid Boots
Glorifying the American Girl
The Half-Naked Truth, with Hollywood on Parade
Six of a Kind, with The Antique Shop, 100% Service, and Fit to Be Tied
Here Comes Cookie, with Oh, My Operation and Let's Dance
The Cocoanuts, with Hotel Anchovy
Animal Crackers, with Fits in a Fiddle and MGM Metrotone Revues
Monkey Business, with False Alarm Fire Department and Faint Heart
Rain or Shine, with Plane Nuts
Whoopee!, with Insurance
Palmy Days, with Getting a Ticket and Cohen on the Telephone
The Kid from Spain, with What Price Taxi
Roman Scandals, with The Installment Collector
Side Show, with The Bashful Ballerina and One Track Minds
Gold Dust Gertie, with Dangerous Females and Hollywood on Parade
So Long Letty, with Red Noses and Beauty and the Bus
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, with The Gold Ghost and Grand Slam Opera
Dixiana, with Men o' War
Diplomaniacs, with Two Boobs in a Balloon, The Office Scandal, and Jitters the Butler
Peach O'Reno, with Double Talk and Taxi Tangle
Cockeyed Cavaliers, with Our Gang Follies of 1938
Half Shot at Sunrise, with Calling All Tars, Shop Talk, and Beer and Pretzels
Hips, Hips, Hooray!, with The Pip from Pittsburgh
Speak Easily, with The Chemist and Buzzin' Around
Local Boy Makes Good, with Twinkle, Twinkle and Success
It's a Gift, with The Nagger and The Pharmacist
International House, with The Naggers at the Dentist, The Dentist, and The Fatal Glass of Beer
The Phantom President, with Politics
Million Dollar Legs, with Poppin' the Cork and The Golf Specialist

All in the Family: The Classic Melodramas of John Stahl and Douglas Sirk
July 10–August 1, 1993
View details »     Written on the Wind
Leave Her to Heaven
Only Yesterday
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
The Tarnished Angels
A Lady Surrenders
Magnificent Obsession (1935)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
All That Heaven Allows
Back Street
Summer Storm
There's Always Tomorrow
Strictly Dishonorable
Imitation of Life (1934)
Imitation of Life (1959)

Dinosaur Matinees
July 31–September 4, 1993
View details »     The Lost World
Gertie the Dinosaur
Monsters of the Past
The Creation
King Kong
The Lost World Revisited
One Million B.C.
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
The Valley of Gwangi
Dinosaur
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Prehistoric Beast
Caveman
The White Gazelle

Gossamer Garbage: A George Kuchar Film and Video Retrospective
August 6–September 5, 1993
View details »     The Shame of Lela La Suere
Pilgrimage
Graffiti Junction
Going Nowhere
The Story of Ruthy
Tootsies in Autumn
Hold Me While I'm Naked
Eclipse of the Sun Virgin
Knocturne
The Creeping Crimson
Calling Dr. Petrov
Corruption of the Damned
Cult of the Cubicles
Prescription in Blue
Sherman Acres
Mosholu Holiday
Leisure
Color Me Shameless
Mongreloid
Home Movies
Return to the House of Pain
Lust for Ecstasy
The Mammal Palace
House of the White People
Point 'n Shoot
George Kuchar Goes to Work with Today's Youth
The Fall of the House of Yasmin
Encyclopedia of the Blessed
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
Artists in Residence
Kitchenettiquette
Pagan Rhapsody
Portrait of Ramona
A Reason to Live
Forever and Always
I, an Actress
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
Snake Goddess
500 Millibars to Ecstasy
The Thief and the Stripper
I Was a Teenage Rumpot
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
A Woman Distressed
A Town Called Tempest
Lovers of Eternity
KY Kapers
The Desert Within
Precious Products
The Migration of the Blubberoids
Scarlet Droppings
Snap 'n' Snatch
Weather Watch
The Devil's Cleavage
Ascension of the Demonoids
The Rainy Season
Big Ones Hurt
Wild Night in El Reno
Weather Diary 1
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
Back to Nature
Cattle Mutilations
Motivation of the Carcasoids
Low Light Life
Mom

The First Five Years: AMMI Film and Video Programs 1988–1993
September 11, 1993–January 7, 1994
View details »     GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR
The Wizard of Oz
The Gang's All Here
Trailers for Phantom of the Opera and six Maria Montez films

INDEPENDENT AMERICA: NEW FILM 1978–1988
The Secret Garden
Mnemosyne Mother of Muses
Mayhem
Confidential, Part II
Apologies
Who Do You Think You Are
Department of the Interior
Sappho and Jerry
Midweekend
Bedtime Story
Money
In the Month of Crickets
From Romance to Ritual
A Few Tunes Going Out
Displaced Person
Adynata

THE LEGENDARY FILM SCORES OF BERNARD HERRMANN
Anna and the King of Siam
On Dangerous Ground

THE UNKNOWN JOHN FORD
Donovan's Reef
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

MASTERS OF CINEMATOGRAPHY: A VITTORIO STORARO RETROSPECTIVE
Apocalypse Now

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST: A ROBERT ALTMAN RETROSPECTIVE
Nashville
Tanner '88: "For Real" and "Night of the Twinkies"

SILENT WITNESSES: RUSSIAN FILM BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
Twilight of a Woman's Soul
Daydreams

THE ART OF REALITY: INNOVATORS OF THE DOCUMENTARY
Sherman's March

FILMS THAT TELL TIME: A KEN JACOBS RETROSPECTIVE
Chronometer
Opening the Nineteenth Century
Phonograph
Better to Be Frightened than to Be Crushed
The Subcinema
Little Stabs at Happiness
Baud'larian Capers
The Winter Footage
Orchard Street
Sat. Afternoon Blood Sacrifice: TV Plug: Little Cobra Dance
The Death of P'town
Naomi Is a Vision of Loveliness

THE FILMS OF CECIL B. DEMILLE
The King of Kings
Madam Satan

JERRY LEWIS: A FILM AND TELEVISION RETROSPECTIVE
The Errand Boy
Colgate Comedy Hour
The Ladies Man
Telethon for the U.S. Olympic Committee

THE ART OF VISION: A STAN BRAKHAGE RETROSPECTIVE
Nightcats
Cat's Cradle
The Dead
The Wold Shadow
Sexual Meditation: Open Field
Star Garden
Murder Psalm
Babylon Series #1, 2, 3
Kindering
Night Music
Rage Net
The Glaze of Cathexis
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Crack'd Glass Eulogy
The Thatch of Night
A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea

VISIONS OF NEW YORK
Fait divers
New York Portrait: Chapter One
Stillwell Avenue Bridge
Wonder Ring
Go Go Go
In the Street
Under the Brooklyn Bridge
Tales of the Bronx
1939 World's Fair Home Movie
Daybreak Express

COMEDY AND AVANT-GARDE FILM
Flying Fur
Schmeerguntz
Rat Life and Diet in North America
C'mon Babe (Danke schoen)
Blue Moses
Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage
Sins of the Fleshapoids

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH: A DAVID CRONENBERG RETROSPECTIVE
Videodrome
Transfer
Dead Ringers
The Italian Machine

PLAY THIS MOVIE LOUD: A HISTORY OF ROCK ON FILM
The Girl Can't Help It
Scorpio Rising
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE FILM FESTIVAL
Schillervision

FROM HARLEM TO HOLLYWOOD: AMERICAN RACE MOVIES 1912–1948
Souls of Sin
Yamekraw

THE 1970s NEW BLACK CINEMA
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

THE BLACK NEW WAVE
Chameleon Street
To Sleep with Anger

ALL-AMERICAN NEWS: REDISCOVERED BLACK NEWSREELS

LEO MCCAREY: THE KING OF COMEDY
Love Affair

RARE SILENT COMEDIES FROM THE ASTORIA STUDIO
It's the Old Army Game

THE VALENTINO CULT
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Camille

BETTY BOOP AND THE FLEISCHER CARTOON STUDIO
Minnie the Moocher
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
Koko's Earth Control
Stoopnocracy
Bimbo's Initiation
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Boilesk
Koko's Harem Scarem
Swing You Sinners
Snow White
Betty Boop for President
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
Is My Palm Read
The Old Man of the Mountain
Betty in Blunderland

THE CARTOON WORLD OF BOB CLAMPETT
Porky and Daffy
Porky in Wackyland
Kitty Cornered
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
Horton Hatches the Eggs
Birdy and the Beast
An Itch in Time
A Corny Concerto
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Beanyland
Porky in Egypt
The Henpecked Duck
Baby Bottleneck
What's Cookin' Doc?
The Hep Cat
The Wise Quacking Duck
A Tale of Two Kitties
Wabbit Twouble
Book Revue
The Wildman of Wildsville

THE LAST WESTERNS
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Last Movie

NAM JUNE PAIK
Global Groove
Nam June Paik: Edited for Television
Video-Film Concert
Living with the Living Theatre

THE GLARING LIGHT: TELEVISION COVERAGE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 1956–1967
Now Is the Time

WHAT DOES SHE WANT?
A Crack in the Tube

RED SCARE ON TV!
The Motorola Television Hour: "Atomic Attack"

VIDEO BIOPICS
There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving

MEDIA AND THE VIETNAM WAR
The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam

PEABODY AWARD WINNERS
Decade

PROJECTIONS OF THE NEW YORK WOMAN
Meet Betty Furness
The Faye Emerson Show
The Ilka Chase Show
What's My Line

THE LIVING-ROOM CANDIDATE
Compilation of Campaign Commercials
Nixon-Kennedy Debate #1

CHANGING THE PICTURE: THE EMERGENCE OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN TELEVISION
Beulah
Amos 'n' Andy
Blacks in Commercials
Julia: "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas"
The Bill Cosby Show: "Christmas Ballad"

A MIKE NICHOLS RETROSPECTIVE
Mike Nichols and Elaine May on Television

Classic Movie Serials in Tut’s Fever Movie Palace
View details »     Spy Smasher
Manhunt in the African Jungle
The Phantom Creeps
Perils of the Darkest Jungle

Changing the Picture: The Emergence of African Americans in Television
Lecture by Fred MacDonald
January 9, 1993

An Afternoon with Neema Barnette
With Neema Barnette in person
January 10, 1993

Free at Last
With Jim Desmond and Nick Proferes in person
January 16, 1993

The Sophisticated Gents
With Melvin Van Peebles in person
January 23, 1993

An Afternoon with Marian Etoile Watson
With Marian Etoile Watson in person
January 24, 1993

Black Journal
Presentation and discussion with William Greaves and Madeline Anderson in person
January 31, 1993

Making The Cosby Show
Presentation and panel discussion with John Bowab and other Cosby writers and directors
February 21, 1993

An Evening with Diahann Carroll
With Diahann Carroll in person
March 11, 1993

Harris and Company: "The Loneliest Night of the Week"
With Stanley Robertson in person
March 20, 1993

An Afternoon with Susan Fales
With Susan Fales in person
March 21, 1993

The Loss of Our Warrior
Discussion with Gil Noble
March 27, 1993

Medium Cool
With Haskell Wexler in person
April 17, 1993

A Seminar with Haskell Wexler
With Haskell Wexler in person
April 18, 1993

Hollywood Party: 35mm Restoration with Color Disney Sequence
With Henry Jenkins in person
May 1, 1993

Gossamer Garbage: A George Kuchar Film and Video Retrospective
Screenings with George Kuchar in person
August 6–8, 1993

MIEDIA: Moving Images Enter the Digital Interactive Age
October 23–December 11, 1993
View details »     A Long Way from Pong: The Next Generation of Home Electronic Games
Virtual Reality Check
Television & Interactivity I: Prototypes of Tomorrow

After Post-Modern, Modern
Illustrated talk by Ken Jacobs
October 30, 1993

Little Stabs at Happiness and Other Films by Ken Jacobs
With Ken Jacobs in person
October 31, 1993

Videodrome and the Science Fiction of Spectacle
Lecture by Scott Bukatman
November 21, 1993

Schillervision
With Tom Schiller in person
November 28, 1993

Silent Movies/Loud Music
Presented in cooperation with The Knitting Factory
September 17–October 3, 1993
View details »     The Unknown
Woman in the Moon
Koko the Clown
Man with a Movie Camera
The General
The Scar of Shame