Screen Test

Screen Test is a United Kingdom children's quiz show about films, broadcast from 18 November 1970 to 20 December 1984 on BBC1. It was first hosted by Michael Rodd, who was succeeded by Brian Trueman and Mark Curry.

Screen Test / 1985

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.

Screen Test / 2023

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.

Screen Test / 1980

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

SCREEN TEST /

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.

Screen Test: Lou Reed (Coke) / 1966

Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke.

Marlene Dietrich, “The Blue Angel” Screen Test / 1930

Marlene Dietrich's acting tests for the film The Blue Angel (Der Blaue Engel) by Josef von Sternberg.

Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test / 1939

Ingrid Bergman's screen test for the film Intermezzo by Gregory Ratoff.

Don Adams' Screen Test

Don Adams' Screen Test is an American game show that aired in syndication for one season with actor Don Adams, who played Agent 86 on Get Smart. The announcer was Dick Tufeld, probably most recognized from the science fiction television series Lost in Space.

Screen Test: Helmut / 1966

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.

Screen Test [ST53]: Lucinda Childs / 1964

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Childs. Runs 4 minutes, 24 seconds in length

Starlet Screen Test / 1986

12 beautiful women audition for film roles.

Their Night Out - Screen Test / 1935

Screen Test #2 / 1965

Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a humiliating auditions for a dictatorial, unseen director.

Screen Test: Nico / 1966

Andy directs Nico for a screen test.

Screen Test: Jackie / 1967

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

Screen Test: Marisol /

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.

Screen Test #1 / 1965

Ronald Tavel taunts Philip Fagan, who lacks the verbal dexterity to counter the clever spider’s web of words that Ronald Tavel weaves to ensnare him, so that Fagan’s only response is to refuse to respond and stare silently off-screen, turning the screen test into a strange form of psychodrama.

Screen Test #3 / 1966

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

Screen Test #4 / 1966

A series of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins.