| 1/31/12 |
WEB PREMIERE: THREE FROM NEW ZEALAND
January 31, 2012—We're delighted to showcase three more films saved through our partnership with the New Zealand Film Archive: Tropical Nights (1920), an evocative tinted “scenic”; a 1917 promotional film for Fordson Tractors; and the charming Western, Billy and His Pal (1911), presented with a new score by Michael Mortilla, commissioned by the Silent Society of Hollywood Heritage. Watch them here.
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| 1/9/12 |
NEW WEB EXHIBITION SALUTES 2011 NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY
January 9, 2012—To celebrate the Library of Congress's National Film Registry, the NFPF is proud to present two avant-garde works named to the honor roll in 2011: Fake Fruit Factory by Chick Strand and I, An Actress by George Kuchar. Watch them here.
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| 12/23/11 |
WEB PREMIERE: THREE FROM NEW ZEALAND
December 23, 2011—For your holiday viewing pleasure, we're delighted to present three more films preserved through our collaboration with the New Zealand Film Archive. This round includes Won in a Closet (1914), directed by and starring the effervescent Mabel Normand, a 1917 automobile manufacturing saga from the Dodge Brothers, and the comedic short A Bashful Bigamist (1921). Watch them here.
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| 12/7/11 |
NFPF ANNOUNCES PRODUCTION OF NEW AVANT-GARDE DVD SET
December 7, 2011—Thanks to a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts last month, and an earlier grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the NFPF announced production of Treasures 6: Next Wave Avant-Garde, a 2-DVD set to be released in fall 2013. Read more here.
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| 11/23/11 |
FIRST NEW ZEALAND FILMS NOW SCREENING ONLINE
November 23, 2011—As preservation work wraps up on the American silent films discovered at the New Zealand Film Archive in 2010, we'll present selections on our Web site. Enjoy the first three samples here with our best Thanksgiving wishes.
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| 11/16/11 |
TREASURES 5 RECEIVES "BEST OF THE WEST" AWARD
November 16, 2011—Treasures 5: The West has been named “Best Classic Western DVD” of the year by True West magazine. Announcing this "Best of the West" award in its annual Source Book, True West wrote "Treasures is a perfect description for this box set, and it’s the most consistently fascinating and entertaining DVD release of the year, hands down." Congratulations to everyone who contributed!
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| 11/15/11 |
2012 GRANT GUIDELINES NOW AVAILABLE
November 15, 2011—The NFPF has opened registration for the 2012 Basic and Matching preservation grants and Avant-Garde Masters Grants. Click on the links for the deadlines and updated guidelines.
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| 10/26/11 |
NFPF ANNOUNCES SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS
October 26, 2011—John Carpenter’s first student film and a 1925 newsreel about Buffalo Soldiers are among the 28 motion pictures slated for preservation. Read more here.
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| 10/3/11 |
NFPF HONORED AT PORDENONE FILM FESTIVAL
October 3, 2011—The NFPF and the New Zealand Film Archive will be honored with the Jean Mitry Award at this year's Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the internationally renowned festival of silent film held annually in Pordenone, Italy. Read all about it here.
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| 9/21/11 |
SCREENING OF THE WHITE SHADOW
September 21, 2011—Tomorrow the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will premiere the new preserved print of Alfred Hitchcock's The White Shadow, discovered at the New Zealand Film Archive during the NFPF's research. The film is the first surviving feature credited to the celebrated filmmaker. Eva Marie Saint will read a summary of the missing reels. Also showing are two other films received from the NZFA: Won in a Closet (1914), directed by and starring Mabel Normand, and Oil’s Well (1923), a Monty Banks comedy. Click here for more.
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| 8/26/11 |
NFPF AT CINECON
August 26, 2011—The NFPF is thrilled to be honored at this year’s Cinecon Festival in Hollywood. On September 2, NFPF Assistant Director Jeff Lambert will introduce the screening of two films preserved through NFPF programs: The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies (1914) and the Nazimova feature Stronger Than Death (1920). Click here for more information.
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| 8/10/11 |
2011 AVANT-GARDE MASTERS GRANTS ANNOUNCED
August 10, 2011—Computer animations by Lillian Schwartz are among the 10 films slated for preservation. Films by Robert Chatterton, Mark Rappaport, Beryl Sokoloff, and Andy Warhol are also pegged for support. Read more here.
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| 8/3/11 |
LOST HITCHCOCK FEATURE RECOVERED IN NEW ZEALAND
August 3, 2011—The New Zealand Film Archive and the NFPF are proud to announce the discovery of The White Shadow (1924), thought to be the earliest surviving feature from Alfred Hitchcock. Read all about it here.
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| 7/14/11 |
NEW TREASURES WEB EXHIBITION
July 14, 2011—In celebration of the upcoming release of Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938, we are presenting a few Westerns from our previous DVD sets, as well as a special teaser from the new set. Watch them here.
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| 6/15/11 |
NFPF AWARDS 36 GRANTS: 1919 “LAWRENCE OF ARABIA” EPIC AND JOHN FORD’S HOME MOVIES TO BE SAVED
June 16, 2011—The NFPF today announced grants to save 64 films, including director John Ford’s home movies and Lowell Thomas’s 1919 With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia, the phenomenally popular silent-era documentary that made T.E. Lawrence a household name. Awards went to 36 institutions. Read more here.
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| 5/31/11 |
NFPF ANNOUNCES LINE-UP FOR WESTERN DVD BOX SET
May 31, 2011—Before High Noon, Unforgiven, and True Grit, there was a wilder, wider West on film. Today, the non-profit National Film Preservation Foundation announced the line-up of Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938, its 10-hour, 3-DVD box set celebrating the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies but has never before been seen on video. The set will go on sale in September. Read more here.
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| 5/18/11 |
NFPF ANNUAL REPORT NOW AVAILABLE
May 18, 2011—Hot off the press! A PDF version of our just-printed 2010 annual report is available on our Web site. It provides an illustrative overview of our current activities and includes a comprehensive list of the more than 1,700 films we've helped save over the past 13 years. You can download it here.
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| 2/1/11 |
SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES AWARD FOR NEW ZEALAND PROJECT
February 1, 2011—The NFPF has received a $203,000 federal grant to preserve 40 American silent films repatriated from New Zealand last year. The award, one of 61 announced today by Jon Jarvis, head of the National Park Service, is part of the Save America's Treasures program, a national initiative to preserve culturally significant collections, structures, and historic sites that epitomize the creativity and innovation of the American people. Among the other recipients were projects involving the preservation of Acoma Pueblo, the personal papers of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and the home of General Robert E. Lee. Read more here.
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| 1/10/11 |
FILM CRITICS ANNOUNCE AWARD FOR UPSTREAM
January 10, 2011—The National Society of Film Critics presented the NFPF a 2010 Film Heritage Award for the rediscovery of John Ford’s Upstream (1927), one of 75 American silent-era films returned from the New Zealand Film Archive this past year. The award honors the many organizations that collaborated in the restoration of this long-lost feature, most notably the Academy Film Archive, New Zealand Film Archive, Park Road Post Production, and Twentieth Century Fox. Many thanks to NFPF consultants Leslie Lewis and Brian Meacham (AFA), who inspected thousands of feet of nitrate film on behalf of the American archival community.
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| 1/1/11 |
NEW TREASURES WEB EXHIBITION
January 1, 2011—The new Web exhibition in our Treasures DVD series is a salute to our troops. Among the four featured films is John Huston's moving documentary The Battle of San Pietro. The exhibition will be showing in the Screening Room until the end of April. Watch them here.
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| 12/9/10 |
2011 GRANT GUIDELINES NOW AVAILABLE
December 9, 2010—The NFPF has opened registration for the 2011 Basic and Matching preservation grants. Click on the links for the deadlines and updated guidelines.
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| 11/2/10 |
NFPF RECEIVES GRANT TO COMPLETE SEARCH FOR RARE AMERICAN FILMS AT THE NEW ZEALAND FILM ARCHIVE
November 2, 2010—Thanks to a grant awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the NFPF will complete the assessment of early American nitrate films held by the New Zealand Film Archive. Read more here.
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| 10/1/10 |
FOUR NEW FILMS IN SCREENING ROOM
October 1, 2010—A big thanks to Chicago Film Archives; Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library; San Francisco Media Archive; and University of Texas’s Ransom Center for sharing these films which were preserved through our grant programs. Watch them here.
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| 9/29/10 |
NFPF ANNOUNCES SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS
September 29, 2010—Blackie the Wonder Horse and Appalachian moonshiners of the 1910s are among the far-ranging subjects captured on film by the 43 motion pictures targeted for preservation. Read more here.
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| 9/1/10 |
NEW TREASURES WEB EXHIBITION
September 1, 2010—Don’t miss “Pioneering Woman Directors,” the new Web exhibition in our Treasures DVD series. It is featured in the Screening Room until the end of the year. Click here to see what’s showing.
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| 8/31/10 |
NEW ZEALAND PROJECT FILM LIST ANNOUNCED
August 31, 2010—The 75 American films to be returned to the U.S. and preserved through the NFPF’s partnership with the New Zealand Film Archive were announced today. For the complete list and a slide show, click here.
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| 8/13/10 |
UPSTREAM TO SCREEN AT PORDENONE
August 13, 2010—John Ford’s Upstream and the trailer for his lost feature Strong Boy will be showcased at the 29th Giornate del Cinema Muto, in Pordenone, Italy (October 2–9). The two are among the 75 long-unseen American silent films being preserved and made available through the NFPF's partnership with the New Zealand Film Archive. Click here for more information.
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| 7/29/10 |
2010 AVANT-GARDE MASTERS GRANTS ANNOUNCED BY THE NFPF AND THE FILM FOUNDATION
July 29, 2010—A Scary Time by Shirley Clarke and Robert Hughes is among 11 films slated for preservation. Films by Richard Leacock and Edward Pincus, Stan Vanderbeek, Barbara McCullough, and Jorge Prelorán are also pegged for support. Read more here.
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| 7/26/10 |
LONG THOUGHT LOST, JOHN FORD'S UPSTREAM (1927) TO SCREEN SEPTEMBER 1
July 26, 2010—The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen this first feature preserved through the NFPF’s partnership with the New Zealand Film Archive at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The preservation of Upstream was a collaboration between Twentieth Century Fox and the Academy Film Archive. Click here for more information.
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| 7/14/10 |
SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
July 14, 2010—NFPF Director Annette Melville will be talking about the New Zealand repatriation project in a free program this coming Sunday. Click here for the festival schedule. An impressive lineup, as always!
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| 7/14/10 |
NEW FEATURES ON WEB SITE
July 14, 2010—Good news for mobile device users: you can now watch the films on our site. We’ve also added a second version of Manhattan Trade School for Girls featuring the commentary of feminist film scholar Jennifer Bean of the University of Washington. Finally, try out our new site search tool in the upper right hand corner—it even searches our PDF publications!
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| 6/16/10 |
NFPF ANNOUNCES SPRING GRANT RECIPIENTS
June 16, 2010—Billy Woodberry's Bless Their Little Hearts and 23 films by New York performance artist Stuart Sherman among those targeted for preservation. Read more here.
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| 6/6/10 |
“LOST” AMERICAN FILMS FOUND IN NEW ZEALAND
June 6, 2010—Read here about the astonishing collection of 75 “lost” American silent shorts and features being returned to the U.S. thanks to a collaboration between the NFPF and the New Zealand Film Archive.
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| 6/3/10 |
WELCOME TO OUR NEW WEB SITE
June 3, 2010—We hope you like the new look and functionality of our site. Please let us know what you think—and don't be shy about reporting glitches and problems.
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| 6/3/10 |
NOW PLAYING
June 3, 2010—One of the site's new features that we are most excited about is the Screening Room, where you can watch—in their entirety—some of the films made available through our programs. The films are complete with program notes.
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