It features approximately 470 half-second-long splices of movie moments through the history of American film.
I started finding these wonderful little combinations of shots, the kind of edits that I'd been doing for years in other things, but suddenly in this film I wasn't selling anything.
"[2]Precious Images won the Oscar for Live Action Short Film during the 1987 ceremony,[3] where it was featured in its entirety.
It was also shown every 15 minutes within London's Museum of the Moving Image since its 1988 opening, but this very popular attraction was closed in 1999.
[4] In 2009, Precious Images was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".