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
- ↑ Sidney Peterson, 94, Surrealist Filmmaker-The New York Times
- ↑ Letterboxd
- ↑ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Avant-Garde Volume 3 - Kino on Video". Archived from the original on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
External links
- The Lead Shoes 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
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