The Lead Shoes Explained

The Lead Shoes is a 1949 experimental film ^[1] directed by Sidney Peterson^[2] at Workshop 20 at the San Francisco Art Institute. The film was made using distorting lenses. The film is a 17-minute black and white short.

In 2009, the film was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.^{[3] [4]} It appears on the DVD Avant-Garde Volume 3 (Experimental Cinema 1922-1954).^[5]

External links

• The Lead Shoes https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/lead_shoes.pdf essay by Kyle Westphal on the National Film Registry website
• The Lead Shoes at Dailymotion
• The Lead Shoes at IMDB
• The Lead Shoes at Ways of Seeing
• The Lead Shoes essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010: A Viewer's Guide to the 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry in 2009–10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011, pages 88–91 https://books.google.com/books?id=PxMWDQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks

Notes and References

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/08/arts/sidney-peterson-94-surrealist-filmmaker.html Sidney Peterson, 94, Surrealist Filmmaker-The New York Times
2. https://letterboxd.com/film/the-lead-shoes/ Letterboxd
3. Web site: Complete National Film Registry Listing . Library of Congress. 2020-05-04.
4. Web site: Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry. Library of Congress. 2020-05-04.
5. Web site: Avant-Garde Volume 3 - Kino on Video . 2010-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101202143841/http://kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=997# . 2010-12-02 . dead .