Precious Images is a 1986 short film directed by Chuck Workman. It features approximately 470 half-second-long splices of classic movies and movie moments through the history of American film. The "scenes" are organized by genre, while matching it with appropriate music - e.g., the "musicals" section is accompanied by the title song of Singin' in the Rain (1952). Films featured range chronologically from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to Rocky IV (1985), and range in subject from comedies such as Modern Times (1936) and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), dramas such as High Noon (1952) and The Godfather (1972), and alternative titles such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Fritz the Cat (1972).

Its purpose is to evoke hundreds of "fleeting memories" in the viewers to look back on all the great films they have seen. The film won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film during the 1987 ceremony, where it was featured in its entirety. "Precious Images" was shown every 15 minutes within London's Museum of the Moving Image (opened 1988) but this very popular attraction was closed in 1999.

Because of the numerous copyrights involved with each of the four hundred-plus films, Precious Images cannot be sold commercially.

A cross-cut of 50 years of movies. We see the most precious film sequences that we all remember: From "Citizen Kane" to "Star Wars", from "Some like it hot" to "E.T.". The incredible short cuts of roughly a second each push the audience into a kind of trance and take them on a journey into their individual memories of great films of half a century. Written by Julian Reischl