Precious Images

US (1986): Short

A cross-cut of 50 years of movies. We see the most precious film sequences that we all remember: From Citizen Kane to Star Wars, from Some Like It Hot to E.T.. The incredible short cuts of roughly a second each push the audience into a kind of trance and take them on a journey into their individual memories of great films of half a century. Produced, directed and edited by Chuck Workman. (Julian Reischl, IMDb)

Workman's annual montages are often the visual highlight of each year's Academy Awards telecast. Precious Images went on to become the most widely-viewed short appearing in schools, museums, film festivals and movie theaters worldwide. It is one of five Workman films in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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1 nomination, 1 Award