Selected Events From Anthology's
First Quarter Century


1967
  • Film Art Fund, Anthology's "fiscal parent" is established
1968
  • Drafting of plans for invisible Cinema at Joseph Papp's Public Theater
1970
  • Anthology opens to the public on December 1 with cyclic screenings of its Essential Cinema film collection at the Public Theater
1971
  • Jean Epstein Retrospective
1972
  • Death of Anthology co-founder Jerome Hill
  • National Endowment for the Arts Film Preservation grants begin
1973
  • Anthology moves to 80 Wooster Street
1974
  • Video exhibition begins at Wooster Street
1975
  • Publication of The Essential Cinema edited by P. Adams Sitney
  • Publication of The Cubist Cinema by Standish Lawder
1976
  • New York State Council on the Arts exhibition grants begin
1977
  • Publication of The Independent Film Community edited by Peter Feinstein, for the Committee on Film and Television Resources and Services
  • Tribute to Anthology's Avantgarde Film Preservation Program at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and at the American Film Institute in Washington, D.C.
1978
  • Publication of The Avant Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism edited by P. Adams Sitney
1979
  • Purchase of the Second Avenue Courthouse from New York City
  • Series: Autobiographical/Diaristic Experience in Cinema
1980
  • "Pleasure Dome" exhibition in Stockholm
  • Publication of The Dark of the Screen by Sidney Peterson
1981
  • "Home Made Movies: 20 Years of American 8mm and Super 8 Films" survey and catalog
1982
  • Tribute to the Film Preservation Programs of Anthology Film Archives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles
  • Publication of Coffee, Brandy & Cigars and Manhattan Odyssey by Herman G. Weinberg
1983
  • Video preservation project begins
  • Publication of Video Texts edited by Robert Harris
  • Anthology moves from Wooster Street to temporary quarters on Broadway
1984
  • National Endowment for the Arts Advancement Grant
  • Publication of The Legend of Maya Deren, Vol 1, Part 1
1985-
1987
  • Construction at Courthouse
1988
  • Anthology reopens at the Second Avenue Courthouse
  • Publication of The Legend of Maya Deren, Vol 1, Part 2
1989
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet retrospective
  • National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grant
1990
  • Czech Modernism Film Series
1991
  • Swedish Avantgarde Film survey and catalog
  • Michel Auder video retrospective and catalog
  • Miklos Jansco and Ross McElwee retrospectives, with Jansco and McElwee in person
  • Series: Stan Brakhage—The 1980s
1992
  • Publication of Jim Davis: The Flow of Energy
  • Film Preservation Honors # 1: Eileen Bowser, Martin Scorsese, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Cecile Starr, and Congressman Sidney Yates
  • US Restoration Premiere: Cabiria by Giovanni Pastrone
  • Il Grande Occhio della Notte: Cinema d'Avanguardia Americano, 1920-1990 at Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino
1993
  • Publication of Recycled Images by William Wees with 36 program found footage survey
  • Film Preservation Honors # 2: Stan Brakhage, Eastman Kodak, Lewis Jacobs, Leonard Maltin, National Center for Jewish Film, and Pioneer LDCA.
  • Film Diaries of Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Remembering Richard Schwarz/Thalia Film Festival
1994
  • Tribute to Cinema 16
  • Film Preservation Honors # 3: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Turner Entertainment, William K. Everson, Enno Patalas, Julian Schlossberg, Amos Vogel, Liam O'Leary
  • SEOUL NYmAX Multimedia and Fluxus Festival
  • Series: Carol Reed, 1945-55
1995
  • Film Preservation Honors # 4: American Movie Classics, Cineric Inc., Library of Congress, New York State Council of the Arts, Pacific Film Archive, VidiPax Inc.
  • Premiere of the complete 32 hour The Book of All The Dead by Bruce Elder
  • American premiere of complete Young Winston by Richard Attenborough
  • American premiere of Un Bruit Qui Rend Fou (The Blue Villa) by Alain Robbe-Grillet and Dimitri de Clercq
  • Three Image Film Festival
  • Articulated Light Conference with Harvard Film Archives

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