''The Lead Shoes'' is a

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

experimental film directed by Sidney Peterson at Workshop 20 at the

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. 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. It appears on the DVD ''Avant-Garde Volume 3 (Experimental Cinema 1922-1954)''.

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*''The Lead Shoes'

essay by Kyle Westphal on the National Film Registry website
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''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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