Filmmaking Movies

The Meltdown Memoirs depicts the production of the movie Street Trash along with cast and crew interviews 20 years later.

Max Boden, an ingenuitive desert naturalist, is trying to stop the construction of a copper mine on the outskirts of 1939 Tucson, Arizona. Through a...

Blue Movie Madness is indeed a mad flick featuring lots of skin as a truly loverly blue-movie maiden shows a beginner the ropes. Everything here is...

Short piece about Daryl F. Zanuck and his time at 20th Century Fox in the 1930s.

A young filmmaker and his crew struggle to bring the famous Korean story of Chunghyang to the big screen. Torn between two very different women and...

A short documentary on Buster Keaton's The Frozen North (1922), regarding how the events of Fatty Arbuckle's trial and William S. Hart's quick...

A lonely drone pilot sets off to capture the perfect composition.

Two filmmakers meet after a gap of fifteen years. As one of them narrates a script of a film to the another, the past catches up with them - the...

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where...

Promotional documentary for the MGM film "Ice Station Zebra" focusing on the career and cinematographic innovations of cameraman John Stephens.

Four friends, driven by their artistic aspirations conduct an elaborate scheme to steal a $3 million painting from a prestigious gallery. In a risky...

Student from Belgrade is shooting amateur melodramatic movie about unfortunate love in Serbian village.

Short documentary on the making of Buster Keaton's One Week.

A stumped scriptwriter discovers a supernatural ability.

This jazzy short was one of two efforts in the very brief "Binko the Bear Cub" series. Completed in 1930 yet never exhibited in theaters. Created by...

David Carradine discusses his career and memories of making Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

An interview with director Paul Annett, focusing on his cult film The Beast Must Die.

Disney animator Dan Lund documents the studio's decision to shut down its hand-drawn animation department and focus instead on computer-generated...

Ben Model discusses scoring music for silent movies.