Approximately 50 16mm films, as well as bulletins, promotional material, exhibition announcements, alumni memory books, and other ephemera, student, alumni, faculty work, and work by Russo. A small amount of biographical information, as well as a film about Russo are included (provided on DVD and tape? tbd). Includes a thumb drive with slides of student work that Russo [or his daughter?] digitized.

According to Russo's student, Carmile Zaino (Class of 1967), in approximately 1967, Russo invited a small group of graduating students to explore the "possibilities of storytelling" in the medium of film with him. She describes this cohort as more of a "club" than an official class, and that Russo was learning filmmaking alongside his graphic design students. Russo supplied the film stock and the equipment, including a splicer. Zaino believes the costs for renting the equipment and purchasing film may have come out of Russo's pocket and were not financed by Parsons School of Design. Because film was expensive, students shared reels, with each student's work usually no longer than two-three minutes so multiple student projects could fit on a single reel. It is likely that many of the undated film reels consisting of multiple two-three minute projects date from the late 1960s into the 1970s.

Some films show evidence of work possibly created for other classes, such as three dimensional works for Richard Thomas's 3-D design class. Other films include students using scratching and drawing techniques directly onto the film.

In the 1966-1967 Parsons course catalog, Richard Steinberg is the only faculty member listed as teaching "film techniques." He was a graphic design department faculty member, along with Russo. This class was an elective open only to third-year (senior) students. The following year, 1967-1968, Russo appears in the catalog as teaching "film techniques," while Steinberg is teaching "film making."