The Lead Shoes

The Lead Shoes is a 1949 experimental film ^[1] directed by Sidney Peterson^[2] 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 National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.^[3][4] It appears on the DVD Avant-Garde Volume 3 (Experimental Cinema 1922-1954).^[5]