The Lead Shoes

1949 film by Sidney Peterson

The Lead Shoes is a 1949 experimental film [1] directed by Sidney Peterson[2] at Workshop 20 at the San Francisco Art Institute. The film was made using distorting lenses. The film is a 17-minute black and white short.

In 2009, the film was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.[3][4] It appears on the DVD Avant-Garde Volume 3 (Experimental Cinema 1922-1954).[5]

References

  1. ^ Sidney Peterson, 94, Surrealist Filmmaker-The New York Times
  2. ^ Letterboxd
  3. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  4. ^ "Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  5. ^ "Avant-Garde Volume 3 - Kino on Video". Archived from the original on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
  • The Lead Shoes [1] essay by Kyle Westphal on the National Film Registry website
  • The Lead Shoes at Dailymotion
  • The Lead Shoes at IMDB
  • The Lead Shoes at Ways of Seeing
  • The Lead Shoes essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010: A Viewer's Guide to the 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry in 2009–10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011, ISBN 1441120025 pages 88–91 [2]


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