Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894–1941 is a 7-disc and 19-hour DVD retrospective released by Image Entertainment in October 2005, and which includes some of the earliest American experimental film. It includes the work of:
- Alexandre Alexeieff
- Sara Kathryn Arledge
- Norman Bel Geddes
- Busby Berkeley
- Josef Berne
- G. W. Bitzer
- J. Stuart Blackton
- David Bradley
- Francis Bruguière
- Rudy Burckhardt
- Mary Ellen Bute
- Theodore Case
- Joseph Cornell
- Douglas Crockwell
- James Cruze
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Emlen Etting
- Walker Evans
- Oscar Fischinger
- Robert Flaherty
- Robert Florey
- Dwinell Grant
- Harry Hay
- Jerome Hill
- John Hoffman
- Lewis Jacobs
- Elia Kazan
- Francis Lee
- Fernand Léger
- Irving Lerner
- Jay Leyda
- Norman McLaren
- William Cameron Menzies
- Dudley Murphy
- Edwin S. Porter
- Man Ray
- Frank Stauffacher
- Ralph Steiner
- Paul Strand
- Willard Van Dyke
- Slavko Vorkapich
- James Sibley Watson
- Melville Webber
- Lois Weber
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