A native of New Haven, Nick Doob ’69 is an Emmy award-winning cinematographer who has worked on two Academy Award-winning documentary shorts: From Mao to Mozart (Dir. Murray Lerner, 1979) and Smile Pinki (Dir. Megan Mylan, 2008). Doob began his filmmaking career during the summer of 1967, taking a filmmaking course through the Free School of Union Square. His first film, Plastic Saints (1968) features footage from the March on the Pentagon, shot during a trip to Washington, D.C., Doob made with his fellow students. In 2015, Doob donated original elements from his student films and early professional work to the Yale Film Archive. In 2016, the Film Archive was awarded a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve Plastic Saints, Costumed Dancer (1968), and 42nd Street Movie (1968).

In 2018, the Archive completed preservation of Doob’s first documentary feature film, Street Music (1979). The film collects performances by 17 street musicians in seven cities including Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco. In 2021, Doob's film London Songs (1973), featuring the music of Doob's classmate David Sewall, was preserved.