16mm Prints in the Collections of the University of Melbourne

| Giles Fielke
Loading films into the State Film Centre Van (VIC)  Source: Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

16mm Prints in the Collections of the University of Melbourne

16mm Prints In The Collections Of The University Of Melbourne | Giles Fielke

Listed below is a set of fifty 16mm film prints currently held in the collections at the University of Melbourne. There are certainly more prints to be added to this initial list, but they can all be found either on the University Library Catalogue or in the Visual Cultures Resource Centre (VCRC). 

A portable 16mm projector can be found at the VCRC, and in the near future it will again be possible to screen "film on film" at Federation Hall at the Southbank Film and Television Building, where there is a theatrical 16mm projector in the bio box.

Supplementing the film list is an extensive reading list, which includes primary documents. This resource expands on the research published in Typical Films and provides researchers with a literature overview for further enquiry. 

For information and guidance on how to screen 16mm film prints please contact: giles.fielke@unimelb.edu.au

Films in the Visual Cultures Resource Centre, University of Melbourne

Bruce Beresford, Lichtenstein in London (1968), 20mins

Dennis Grafton, Stage Productions (no date)
Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy (Man Ray), Ballet Mécanique (1924), 19mins
Ingmar Bergman, Persona (1966), 84mins
Introduction to Paleography (3 reels) – educational resource
Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion (1937) (3 reels), 114mins
Jean Vigo, Zero for Conduct (1933), 41mins
Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel (1930), 99 mins
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, Un Chien Andalou (1929), 21mins
Luis Buñuel, Viridiana (1961),  90mins
Lawrence Gowing and John Jones, Matisse: A Sort of Paradise (1969), 27 mins
Nigel Buesst and Ross Cooper, Jacka V.C (1978), 47mins
René Clair, Entr’act (1924), 22mins
Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), 74mins
Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water (1962) (3 reels), 94mins
Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin (1925), 75mins

Films in the University of Melbourne Library

ACI Films, Enameling (1968), 15mins

AIMS Instructional Media Service, Visual Perception and Failure to Learn (1967), 20mins

Al Razutis, Cities of Eden (Amerika) (1976), 10mins
Al Razutis, Sequels in Transfigured Time (1976), 14mins (Canadian Filmmakers Distribution)

Alvin Toffler, William Morris and Industrialisation (1972), 42mins

Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Articulated Image (1996), 4mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Eikon (1969), 3mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Experiments in three-colour separation (1980), 21mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, 4,000 frames: an eye-opener film (1970), 3mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, The Incised Image (1966), 23mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Katatjuta (1977), 24mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Moving Statics (1969), 28mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Printer Light Play (1978), 6mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Robert Klippel: Junk Sculpture (1964), 94mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Two-colour separation studies (1979), 19mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Warrah (1980), 15mins

Artist film Productions, Michael Jean Cooper: Sculptor (1979), 25mins

Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, Disco (1977), 11mins
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, Five Aboriginal Dances from Cape York (1966), 8mins
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, Now You’re Talking (1979), 47mins
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, One Man’s Road (1967), 26mins
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, Sculpture Australia ’69 (1969), 30mins
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, The Change at Groote (1968), 27mins
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, The Passionate Industry (1973), 59mins
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, The Pictures That Moved (1968), 46mins
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, Wangka walytjalampa titu ngaranytjaku = Not to lose you my language : bilingual education in the Northern Territory (1975), 27mins
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, Weekend (1977), 12mins

BBC Open University, China: Times of Jade and Bronze & Times of Silk and Gold (1973), 104mins
BBC Open University, Organisations of Peace (1974), 23mins
BBC Open University, Sacred Music of the English Renaissance (1972), 25mins
BBC Open University, The Black Holes of Gravity (1973), 52mins
BBC Open University, The Resistance (1974), 23mins
BBC Open University, William Morris and Industrialisation (1974), 24mins

Bernard Wilets, Discovering American Indian Music (1972), 24mins

Blackwood Production, The New World (1978), 59mins
Blackwood Production, The Pioneers (1978), 59mins

Brian McKenzie, A Place to Belong (1993), VHS/ Kanopy
Brian McKenzie, Pat and Eddy’s greyhound racing family (1994), VHS

British Film Institute, The War Game (1965), 47mins
British Film Institute, The Pre-Raphaelite Revolt (1968), 30mins

Charles Crichton, More Bloody Meetings: The Human Side of Meetings (1984), 29mins

Chris Knowles, Auto voyeur: A film by Chris Knowles (1987), 12mins 
Chris Knowles and Maggie Fooke, One View (1985), 13mins

Columbia University, Dance and Human History (1976), 20mins

Dan Barnett, Morning Procession in Yangchow (1978), 5mins

David Perry, Album (1970), 6mins 

Dirk De Bruyn, 4 Tone (1982?), 9mins
Dirk De Bruyn, Feyers: A Dance Behind Your Eyes, No. 652 (no date, no length – VCA filmreel) (Catalogue: UniM Store Film 652 GE17)

Ed Dundas, Nick and Jon (1976), 20mins

Educational Activities, The Ungraded Highschool (1968), 25mins

Education Development Centre, Classrooms in Transition (1967), 31mins

Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery (1903), 10mins

Edwin Goldin, The Packet of an Uncertain Gaussian (1968), 9mins

Encyclopedia Britannia Films, Your Voice (1949), 11mins
Encyclopedia Britannia Films, Vocal Music (1950), 11mins
Encyclopedia Britannia Films, Six Classical Music Films (1955), 11-14mins
Encyclopedia Britannia Films, Streak to Hatching (1960), 13mins
Encyclopedia Britannia Films, Mitosis (1961), 24mins

Erika Addis, Sabina Wynn, The Invisible Woman (1980), 20mins (Australian Film and Television School), 16mm

Film Australia, Women Alone (1973), 27mins

Frank and Caroline Mouris, Frank Film (1973), 9mins (Pyramid Films)

F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu (Dracula) (1922), 63mins
F.W. Murnau, Faust: A German Popular Legend (1926), 85mins
F.W. Murnau, City Girl (1930), 90mins
F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931), 88mins

Hartley Productions, The Expanding Universe of Sculpture (1970), 15mins

Horizon Production Services, Censorship: A Question of Judgement (1964), 5mins

Igë Alcazaran, Sa Maynilà: pelicula nina (1988), 7mins

Ivan Hexter, Related Organics (1975), 10mins

Ivor, Arthur, Corinne Cantrill, Myself When Fourteen (1989), 19mins
Ivor, Arthur, Corinne Cantrill, Rainbow Diary (1984), 17mins (with music by Chris Knowles)

Jan Lenica, "A" (1964), 10mins

John Berger, Ways of Seeing: Reproductions; Nude or Naked?; Possessions; The Language of Advertising (1972), 90mins

John Cohen, Peruvian Weavers: A Continuous Warp for 5000 years (1978), 25mins

Kellog Company, Journey Through Nutrition Land (1976), 15mins

King Vidor, Our Daily Bread (1934), 73mins

Laird Sutton, Quiet Afternoon (1976), 20mins

Len Lye, Colour Flight (1938), 4mins
Len Lye, Free Radicals (1958, revised, 1979), 4mins
Len Lye, Rhythm (1957), 1min

Leonard W. Schmaltz, Perception: Analysis of Behaviours (1970), 11mins

Linda Blagg, Just Me and My Little Girlie (1976), 14mins

Lumière Bros, Lumière Program (1896), 9mins

Lynsey Martin, Automatic/Single/Continuous (1982), 8mins
Lynsey Martin, Leading Ladies (1975), 5mins

Marcus Bergner, An Historic Disturbance of Memory (1987), 20mins

Margaret Lazarus, Rape Culture (1975), 35mins

McGraw-Hill Films, Birth of a Brain: Ten Billion Galaxies (1983), 33mins

Michael Buckley, Untitled (1986), 6mins

Michael Lee, Rock, Heart, Fire (1986), 20mins (transferred to DVD)

Monique Tammer, Margaret: At 17 a Beauty Queen (1970), 10mins

Nathanial Dorsky, Ariel (1983), 16mins

National Film Boards of Canada, Cooperage (1975), 17mins
National Film Boards of Canada, Dance Squared (1961), 3.5mins
National Film Boards of Canada, Embryonic Development - The Chick (1953), 26mins
National Film Boards of Canada, The Merry-Go-Round (1966), 23mins
National Film Boards of Canada, Notes on a triangle (1967), 5mins

Peter Drummond, Woodcraftsman: Stephen Hogbin (1976), 16mm/Kanopy

Peter Robinson, Decisions Decisions: How to Reach Them, How to Make Them Happen (1977), 29mins
Peter Robinson, Meetings Bloody Meetings (1976), 30mins

Population Dynamics, Beyond Conception (1968), 35mins

Ray Argyll, Return Home (1989), VHS/Kanopy

Reuben Mow, Third Generation Blues (1975), 8mins

Roxlee and Benjie Lontoc, Spit/Optik (1989), 15mins (Philippines)

Roundtable Productions, Meeting in Progress (1969), 43mins

South Australian Film Corporation, Jewellery Making (1975), 24mins
South Australian Film Corporation, Olga De Amaral (1975), 5mins

Sue Marx, Gerhardt Knodel: An Artist and His Work (1980), 13mins

Susan Doring, Centennial Park: A History (1979), 21mins

Visual Education Films, To Number Systems (1961), 14mins

Yeye Calderon, Balat (1989), 8mins (Goethe Institut Manila, Philippines)

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