"All-Is-Well"

About

"All-Is-Well" collects ordinary adventures remembered only because they survive in home movies. Against a backdrop of distant news events, kids stampede for Easter eggs; horses run together; families read pulps and shoot craps; cooks fry; tin-can tourists work hard at leisure; people pose, clown and drink, pull back the husks of sweet corn. For them and for us, remaking the ephemeral gesture is both a small pleasure and an act of survival. The home movie segments used in the film date from 1930 to 1969, the period in which the near-infinite and mostly-unseen archive of home movies that awaits our attention was born. Commissioned by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Open Space.

Consider watching it a second time with sound turned down and a room filled with people talking.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

Licence or status

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Credit

Rick Prelinger

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed