Whitney Commercial
Jan 01, 1973 | IMDB 0
3 min Watch NowAnimation
Commissioned by David Bienstock, creator of the New American Film Series at the Whitney Museum of Art to raise funds for the second season of the series. The film was projected at the end of each program and a box to receive donations was placed at the exit of the theater. Whitney Commercial ran for two or three years until the Museum agreed to sponsor the series on its own which has continued to the present season. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Asparagus
A Grand Day Out
The Wrong Trousers
A Close Shave
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
Photodiary '87
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Cels
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
Gondora
Automatic Writing
Andrey Svislotskiy
Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere
The Adventures of *
Legacy: A Very Short History of Natural Resources
Mountain Music
Banner of Youth
Anijam
Dear Janice
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
SIMILAR MOVIES
Asparagus
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1979
A symbolic reflection on issues of female sexuality, art and identity constructs.A Grand Day Out
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1990
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.The Wrong Trousers
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1993
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.A Close Shave
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 1996
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
IMDB 5.4 | Mar , 2010
A children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.Photodiary '87
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 1987
I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.La Maison en Petits Cubes
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 2008
La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.Cels
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1972
A showcase for the MCAD Animation Workshop 1972 where each student was given one of a series of cells to animate whatever they pleased.Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2019
"My last image of Jonas."—Ken JacobsGondora
IMDB 5 | Dec , 1997
A short movie about a guy living in his own world.Automatic Writing
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2003
Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).Andrey Svislotskiy
IMDB 5.9 | Jan , 1991
This animated short focuses on the lives of three eccentric people living on a farm in the Ukrainian countryside. Told in a non-linear, stream of consciousness style, the film depicts the deceitful relationship between a master and his two servants. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1989
Sistiaga painted directly on 70mm film a circular (planetary?) form, around which dance shifting colours in a psychedelic acceleration matched by the soundtrack’s deep-space roar and howl. - Cinema ScopeThe Adventures of *
IMDB 5.7 | Jan , 1957
Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.Legacy: A Very Short History of Natural Resources
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1979
Legacy takes the audience on a rapid-fire journey through the evolution of the world, starting with a cosmic bang, evolving through billions of years of plants, animals and the creation of natural resources, ending with man and his bounty – “sitting on his world contemplating his coconut”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.Mountain Music
IMDB 5 | Jan , 1976
Mountain Music illustrates what happens when technology gets too advanced too soon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.Banner of Youth
IMDB 5 | Jan , 1957
A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the complexity of the world in a capsule, the film reflects the new policy of the openness to the West during the Thaw of the late 1950s in Poland.Anijam
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 1984
The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.Dear Janice
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1972
Beckett cycles through a limited number of drawings, but adds new information to each drawing every time we see it, giving the sense of a world that is infinitely rich and also obviously contained tightly within the edges of the paper. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
IMDB 3.8 | Dec , 2011
An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.