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A group of sex-crazy guys pose as porno filmmakers just to audition groups of lovelies in various states of undress. Eventually, they're pressurized into coming up with an actual movie.

Live action and animation composite test for Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The short clip resulted in Richard Williams being hired as the film's animation director.

In order to prepare himself for rejection, Mark Cronin makes a film documenting all the possible ways he can get rejected by his crush. Along the way, he gets help from his friends and fellow classmates. While this is happening, he struggles with his anxiety and confidence that is being destroyed by his OCD.

Andy directs Edie for a screen test.

Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke.

Nico, filmed with an unmoving camera, reads a magazine. She scratches her head, flips her hair, looks glumly at the camera, and then rolls the magazine into a tube and peers through it.

12 beautiful women audition for film roles.

Hungarian short film featured in 1967 New York Film Festival.

ca. 1980-81, 3 min, Super-8mm, silent

The artist reworks Warhol's famed series, focusing instead on African American women. Shot on 8mm, the film's become a reflection on the gaze with each subject's differing reactions and engagements with the camera.

Take a sneak peek behind the scenes of a casting audition for roles involving nudity. Twenty-one separate castings have been compiled in this video with some of the best female auditions ever.

Andy Warhol directs The Factory regular Louisa "Jackie" Foster for a screen test.

Screen Test: Helmut, by Andy Warhol, is a five minute silent black and white continuous close-up of a young man’s face. The face remains deathly still other than the occasional blink or involuntary bat of his eyelash. The film is slowed down to about 24-frames per-second to capture these slight movements a bit better, but other than this and the choppy fade-in’s and out’s at the beginning and end respectively, nothing changes throughout the film.

Marisol has been posed against a light-coloured background and carefully lit from left and right. Her face emerges from the dark mass of her hair. The film is slightly out of focus throughout. At one point she glances off-screen, then resumes her gaze into the camera.

One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.

Marlene Dietrich's screen tests for the classic 1930 German film The Blue Angel directed by Josef von Sternberg.

A series of close-ups of real urban 'types' in which the camera is returned to its Edison-era status as a simple recording device.

8mm film, hand processed, scanned and digitally projected.

One summer afternoon, I asked my maternal grandmother, Teresa, to pose for a portrait. Sitting on a bench, she holds her gaze facing the camera as I film an entire Super 8 reel, emulating an Andy Warhol screen test.

A film by Robert Beatty.

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...

Everyone's worst travel nightmare - being stuck next to an obnoxious dork on a flight where there are no spare seats.

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.

In a series of vintage screentests, we see young, anonymous girls posing and hoping for a role in a film. A couple of typical poses, a battle with the strangeness of the situation, the clumsiness of the cameraman - the compilers from the Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia preserved all imperfections with love.

Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despite entreaties from both her daughter, Gretchen, and one-time professional colleague Jim Johannsen, Margaret remains convinced that she can regain her former glory. As she sets her sights on a coveted Hollywood role, Johannsen tries doggedly to get his unrequited love to see the folly of her ways.

Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of legends. See some of Hollywood's top names and greatest talents in their very first appearances on celluloid. From Dustin Hoffman's 1966 stock and personality tests to Raquel Welch and James Coburn cavorting for Our Man Flint, from The Three Stooges to Rock Hudson, see stars trying to get on film.

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

Rare black and white footage of Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones auditioning for the 60s hit NBC television program The Monkees.

DVD release of Karia Nomoto's "Ready Made Screen Test", it shows a series of short films. Includes the music videos for "The Night Is Still Young," "Jiyudo," and "Hitmoi no Naka no Mirror Ball," plus tons more footage of Karia.

This is the screen test video trailer version of Fred Dekker 1995 script for the live action version of Jonny Quest. The script takes place in Hong Kong 1964 where a top commander Race gets recruited to Dr Quest as his bodyguard. He also befriends the doctor's son Jonny who is more adventurous than some might know but also distanced from his father. Together they are headed for the lost city in the jungle where they will prevent a Chinese doctor from taking the magic power of the gods.

Andy Warhol Screen Test No. 335: Screen test of influential art critic Amy Taubin

Shot circa 1926, these two screen tests are made up of various takes for two films by Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques de Baroncelli.

Penthouse Pet Michelle Bauer jumped from the pages of early-'80s men's mags to the wild celluloid of mid-'80s horror flicks. This gal works all the time and has played everything from hookers to holy women.