Silent Movies

The three fat boys make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers.

A feud in the Adirondack Mountains develops when Randolph Shaw will not give up a shack and its acreage adjoining the estate of Lord Cecil...

Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.

Released in 1922.

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence...

Peter Hutton's New York trilogy. An act of urban archaeology, a chronicle of indelible impressions of the city.

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.

A group of men shows the 'before and after' physical effects of a journey upon the Mount Aspiring area. Mount Aspiring (9,960 ft.), known as the...

Filmed during the 52nd National Convention of the American National Association of Letter Carriers in August 1980.

Mutt and Jeff fight with Indians.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Second part of the film 'River of ice', a mountaineering tour on Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. After spending the night in the Deficance Hut,...

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

Abstract short.

"While The Salvation Army on the Job is listed in film databases without a full plot summary, it is closely associated with the 1919 short comedy A...

Digging in the woods.

A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a...

A winter vintage ascent to Mount Ruapehu by a large group of mountaineers composed of about 11 men and women. Mount Ruapehu, 2797 meters high, is an...

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...