I ask about the role of sound and music in Lawrence Jordan's film, especially Our Lady of the Sphere. Lawrence was kind enough to give a wonderfully thorough answer! 

You can find out more about the work of Lawrence Jordan at lawrencecjordan.com/

The Amateur Cinema League, and all the cine-clubs of the 1920s through the 60s, were big drivers of regular folks getting their movies seen. The advent of 16mm film, and later Super8, led to an explosion in the number of people who could shoot movies, not unlike what we've seen since 2000. 

Scott Nixon's The Augustas is a film by a traveling salesman. It's also a record of a bunch of places called Augusta. It's also a strange piece of film that made me seriously scratch my head about what it all means... or not mean.

A wonderfully strange animation from 1975, we look at Quasi at the Quackadero and how it relates to the Underground Comix scene and much more! 

One of the most important and influential short films of the 1960s, there's a movement to get Skater Dater on to the National Film Registry. Does it belong? Tune in and find out. Also, yes... yes it does.

A controversial film that can't LEGALLY be shown. Todd Haynes' classic biopic that tackles the American Celebrity, anorexia, beauty, and how parents can be utter dicks.  We talk about why it should be on the Registry, and touch on the concept of Forbidden Films. 

You can view it at https://vimeo.com/344856

The spot for Computer Graphics research in the 1960s, several films are worthy of inclusion on the registry as an example of the technical and artistic state-of-the-art.

The work of Lillian Schwartz, Ken Knowlton, E.E. Zajak, and various others all helped create the world of scientific and creative arts we know today. There are several pieces that deserve potential inclusion on the National Film Registry

We're gonna start making this the home of Registry - A Podcast with a film that's strange, and ultra difficult to deal with!

Before YouTube, you had VHS. That was how you started a movement, by taping as much as you could, and then distributing it around to video stores. This was perfected by Powell-Peralta, the legendary skateboarding company, with their series of Bones Brigade skateboarding videos. 

And I am about to argue that they MUST be added to the National Film Registry. 

​You see, the fact is this is a documentary that chronicles the rise of 1980s skateboarding culture, and all that entails, from the athleticism, to the fashion, to the music, but it's also the best example of the humor that thrived within skateboarding at the time. The music video segment 'Skate and Destrory' is the perfect example. In Bones Brigade II, we're shown amazing skating of two distinct eras: the 1970s low and intricate style that we see from Rodney Mullen, and the cutting-edge flyign style that we see from Lance Mountain, Steve Cabellero, Mike McGill, and a young young young Tony Hawk. It's amazing the difference between them, and they're both great to watch, and ideal to the early age of home video. You can't watch segments like the downhill portion, where guys on boards wearing heavy, welding-style glove go down a mountain road at high speed, and not see the influence it would have over the evolution of things like the X-Games. 

Aethsetically, it's an influential piece because you can see hundreds of imitators of these in the 1980s and 90s, in both the skateboarding and inline skating worlds, but also in the way that almost every extreme sports video took the imagery and use of music and applied them in the same way, from YouTube to ABCSports. Historically, it's a perfect record of this movement, in a way that is much more natural than a doc I know will end up listed - Dogtown and Z-Boys, which was also directed by Stacy Peralta. Culturally, this serves as a record of a culture that has been ignored, for the most part. It is the record of the 1980s skating scene, as well as the entire Teen world. 

The video is low-res at heart, and should be enjoyed as such. It's the DIY heart of 1980s skating.