David Lynch`s very first short film, Six Figures Getting Sick (aka Six Times) in 1966. Lynch made this film during his second year at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art

David Lynch's second short film, The Alphabet, shot in 1968 which featured his then wife, Peggy Lynch.


The Amputee, made in 1974 for the American Film Institute while Eraserhead was in financial limbo. The AFI was testing two different stocks of black and white video and enlisted Frederick Elmes to test each one. Lynch asked Elmes if he could shoot something with this stock and so he and Catherine Coulson stayed up all night writing a script. The result was a one shot scene with Catherine Coulson about a woman attempting to write a letter while a female nurse (played by Lynch) tends to her leg stumps.