- Precious Images
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name = Precious Images
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director =Chuck Workman
producer =Chuck Workman
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editing =Chuck Workman
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released =1986
runtime = 8 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0091787"Precious Images" is a 1986
short film directed byChuck Workman . It features approximately 470 half-second-long splices of classic movies and movie moments through the history of American film. The "scenes" are organized by genre, while matching it with appropriate music - e.g., the "musicals" section is accompanied by the title song of "Singin' in the Rain" (1952). Films featured range chronologically from "The Great Train Robbery" (1903) to "Rocky IV " (1985), and range in subject from comedies such as "Modern Times" (1936) and "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life " (1983), dramas such as "High Noon " (1952) and "The Godfather " (1972), and alternative titles such as "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre " (1974) and "Fritz the Cat" (1972).Its purpose is to evoke hundreds of "fleeting memories" in the viewers to look back on all the great films they have seen. The film won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film during the 1987 ceremony cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/139331/Precious-Images/details |title=New York Times: Precious Images |accessdate=2008-05-25|work=NY Times] , where it was featured in its entirety. "Precious Images" was shown every 15 minutes within London's Museum of the Moving Image (opened 1988) but this very popular attraction was closed in 1999.
Because of the numerous
copyrights involved with each of the four hundred-plus films, "Precious Images" cannot be sold commercially.References
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*imdb title|id=0091787|title=Molly's Pilgrim
* [http://www.pages.drexel.edu/faculty/ina22/cliplib/clip-precious_images_list.htm List of all films featured in "Precious Images" (NB: includes post-1986 films, and thus likely represents a later version of the short)]
* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0091787/movieconnections IMDb chronological list of all films in "Precious Images" (1986)]
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