''The Lead Shoes'' is a 1949

experimental An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a ...

film directed by Sidney Peterson 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

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by the

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as being deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. It appears on the DVD ''Avant-Garde Volume 3 (Experimental Cinema 1922-1954)''.

References

External links

*''The Lead Shoes'

essay by Kyle Westphal on the

website
''The Lead Shoes''
at Dailymotion
''The Lead Shoes'' at IMDB
*''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 88–9

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