Preserve and project: Malcolm Turvey on two new anthologies of avant-garde film.(Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s)(Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1894-1941)(FILM)(Video Recording Review)

Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s. Kino Video. 2-DVD set. $30.

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1894-1941. Image Entertainment/Anthology Film Archives. 7-DVD set. $100.

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THAT 16 MM FILM is dying, at least as an exhibition format, has long been obvious to those of us who teach film. The 16 mm prints on which film studies has relied since its inception are gradually becoming so old and worn as to be unusable, and are not, for the most part, being replaced. The solution for many institutions is to project DVDs of ...

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