Cultural & Academic Films

Cultural & Academic Films
http://www.archive.org/details/culturalandacademicfilms

For those people who might be interested in little-seen films, the Cultural & Academic Films section of the Internet Archive is a site of great importance. The collection currently contains over 1,000 films that deal with everything from leper colonies in Burma to experimental films from the personal collection of Timothy Leary. Visitors can check out the "Most Downloaded Items Last Week" area to get a sense of the wisdom of the crowds, and then look at the "Sub-Collections" area. Here they will find films contributed from the Buckminster Fuller Archive, the Khan Academy, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. First-time visitors may wish to view the 35-minute film "The Happy City" from 1959. This film follows Bill Deneen as he travels three days by cart to the remote leper colony run by Father Cesare Columbo in Burma. >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2011. http://scout.wisc.edu/