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

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
Lichtenstein (2000ft reel)
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 (1977), 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

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

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, Katatjuta (1977), 24mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Moving Statics (1969), 28mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Print Light Play (1978), 6mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Two-colour separation studies (1979), 19mins
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Warrah (1980), 15mins

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Len Lye, Colour Flight (1981), 4mins – Imperial Airways Advertisement
Len Lye, Free Radicals (revised version, 1979?), 4mins

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

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

Michael Buckley, untitled (1986), 6mins

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

Nathanial Dorsky, Ariel (1983), 16mins

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

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

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

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

Online Archives, Newsletters, and Repositories

Artists Film Workshop (Naarm/Melbourne) 
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Australian Film Institute Research Collection
Cinema Papers 1969-1970, State Library of Victoria, Australia
Cinema Papers 1974-2001, University of Wollongong, Australia
Experimenta  
The filmmaker 1975-19uu / Melbourne Filmmakers’ Co-op, State Library of Victoria, Australia
Filmnews 1971-1995 (Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative with the Assistance of the Australian Film Commission), State Library of Victoria, Australia
Melbourne Independent Filmmakers (Innersense / Bill Masoulis)
Mesh: film/video/media/art, nos. 1-12 (1993-1999), State Library of Victoria, Australia
Metro Magazine
Modern Image Makers’ Association Newsletter, State Library of Victoria, Australia
National Film and Sound Archive  
Pure Shit – a website devoted to alternative Australian cinema 
Screening the Past 
Senses of Cinema
Super eight: newsletter of the Melbourne Super 8 Group (19uu-2001), State Library of Victoria, Australia.

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