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Library and Archives Digital Collections: Audio-Visual Features

Digitized Audio-Visual Features

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Film and Video

Experimental Films

In 2002, the Cleveland Museum of Art was awarded a grant from The National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve three animated films produced in the 1960s and 70s. The three films were produced during a series of experimental film animation classes for teenagers offered by the museum’s education department during that period. To view a press release regarding the digitization project, visit https://archive.org/details/cmapr4533.

Audio Visual Highlights

Goldsmithing Techniques of John Paul Miller, 1987

Cleveland, Ohio artist John Paul Miller was a master goldsmith who revived the ancient jewelry manufacture technique of granulation. This video, narrated by John Paul Miller, illustrates his methods. 

This video is part of the John Paul Miller collection, held by the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. For more information on the collection please visit the finding aid at: https://archive.org/details/JohnPaulMiller

Marcel Duchamp: Apropos of Myself, 1962

A resurgence of interest in the works of Marcel Duchamp during the late 1950s and 1960s prompted a number of retrospective exhibitions and lectures by the artist who spoke in Cleveland on his life and work.

Citation: "Marcel Duchamp: Apropos of Myself", November 9, 1962, Audio Programs, The Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

The Priest Of Myoshinji, 1970

"The Priest of Myoshinji" is a 1970 WKYC-TV public affairs presentation featuring Cleveland Museum of Art director Sherman Lee and Curator of Asian Art Wai Kam Ho.

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