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81 Films to be Preserved by the 2025 NFPF Preservation Grants
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| Eight public service and promotional films featuring Hollywood stars will be preserved by the George Eastman Museum with NFPF support. In this untitled teaser from 1952 Joan Crawford fundraises for a Texas clinic that cared for children with polio. |
The National Film Preservation Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of its 2025 federally funded grants, which will allow 31 institutions across 14 states and the District of Columbia to preserve 81 films.
The richly varied selection ranges from Joan Crawford to Jordan Belson, Herbert Hoover to forensic science founder Dr. Rutherford Birchard Hayes Gradwohl, and it stretches from Polish Highlanders in Chicago to the Iñupiat in Alaska. The grant-winners encompass almost every genre of “orphan film.” These highlights give a taste of the selection—to see the full list of 2025 grant recipients, go here. … Read more
THE BARGAIN in the NFPF Screening Room
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| William S. Hart in The Bargain (1914) |
The NFPF has the pleasure of announcing that The Bargain (1914) is now available for free viewing in our online screening room. This epochal western, produced by Thomas Ince, directed by Reginald Barker, and added to the National Film Registry in 2010, marked the feature film debut of William S. Hart, one of the genre's greatest stars. It kicked off Hart’s decade-long mission of giving the Western a greater semblance of realism and intense morality. Hart plays his favorite character type, the “good badman,” the outlaw who finds redemption in uneasy reach.
Though The Bargain is available elsewhere online, our copy is in High Definition and graced with a score by Ben Model! Our thanks to the Library of Congress for providing a scan of the 35mm paper print, originally deposited at the Library for copyright purposes in 1914, and for … Read more
7 More Movies Join the Online Field Guide to Sponsored Films
We’re happy to announce seven recent additions to the Online Field Guide to Sponsored Films, the free screening room featuring movies from The Field Guide to Sponsored Films, written by Rick Prelinger and published by the NFPF in 2006. All seven additions are derived from HD scans created by the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center of the Library of Congress.
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| A wedding is one of the many joys of everyday existence celebrated on three screens in To Be Alive! (1964). |
These films in were produced for a richly varied set of reasons. Some titles were commissioned by charities highlighting their good works, as with On the Firing Line (1936). Sponsored by the National Tuberculosis Association, this public health travelogue highlights cross-country locations that have played a part in the struggle against tuberculosis and discusses modern treatment methods. … Read more
NFPF Treasures To Save and Project
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| A pre-preservation film strip from Elijah Pierce: Woodcarver (1974). The newly preserved print that will screen has been color-corrected to restore its original vibrancy. |
Attention New Yorkers! Twelve films preserved through NFPF grants will be playing at “To Save and Project,” the Museum of Modern Art’s annual festival of newly restored films from archives worldwide, held January 9-30.
Eight of the films mae up a program devoted to Chicago-based experimental filmmaker Heather McAdams, whose works, dating from 1980 to 1995, are primarily assembled from found footage and view the detritus of American culture through an antic feminist lens. The films were preserved by the Chicago Film Society through a 2021 NFPF Federal Grant and a 2022 Avant-Garde Masters Grant (awarded in conjunction with The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation).
8 More Movies Added to the Online Field Guide to Sponsored Films
Eight movies now join the Online Field Guide to Sponsored Films, the free screening room of entries from The Field Guide to Sponsored Films, written by Rick Prelinger and published by the NFPF in 2006.
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| Video conferencing and other joys of the future are predicted in Living Unlimited (1951). |
Viewers can enjoy 185 sponsored films in the screening room. They were commissioned during the 20th century by a grab-bag of organizations: businesses promoting commercial products, charities highlighting good works, advocacy groups bringing attention to social causes, and state and local governments explaining their programs. All eight new additions are derived from HD scans created by the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center of the Library of Congress.
Two of these films have never before appeared online. Memo to Mars (1954), made by Wilding Picture Productions for the U.S. … Read more