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NFPF-preserved films at the Orphan Film Symposium
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| Like this man, attendees of the Orphan Film Symposium will learn The Four Pillars of Income (1939). |
The Orphan Film Symposium will be held April 8-11 at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. As always, this event will bring together scholars, archivists, curators, media artists, preservationists, and collectors. This year’s theme is “Crisis and Community,” and each day of the symposium includes the presentation of a film preserved through NFPF grants.
The very first screening on the first day, presented by Ashley Dequilla from the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago, is of five films made between 1936 and 1955 by amateur filmmaker Nicholas Viernes that document Filipino American families and their midwestern communities. On day two John Morton of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound, a part of the Knox County Public Library, … Read more
NFPF Films at the Orphan Film Symposium
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| Cullen Landis and Elinor Field as lovebirds at the mercy of the law in Cupid in Quarantine (1918). |
The 11th Orphan Film Symposium will be held April 11-14 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York. Presented by New York University’s Department of Cinema Studies and its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, the event brings together scholars, archivists, curators, media artists, preservationists, and collectors. Orphan works will be screened and presented, including four films preserved through NFPF funding.
Laserimage (1972), Ivan Dryer’s celluloid forerunner to his Laserium light show, was preserved by New York University.
Blackie the Wonder Horse Swims the Golden Gate (1938), a newsreel story covering the Wonder Horse’s legendary transbay swim from Marin to San Francisco, was preserved by the San Francisco Media Archive and is part of “A Screening in Tribute to Stephen … Read more
The Orphan Film Symposium
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This week the 10th Orphan Film Symposium kicks off at the Library of Congress’s Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation. Convened by New York University, this edition of the Symposium focuses on recorded sound and will be attended by archivists, preservationists, technicians, and scholars from around the world.
The symposium’s schedule includes a lecture from Rick Prelinger, author of the NFPF’s Field Guide to Sponsored Films, on film preservation issues of the 21st century and a presentation by film restorers Robert Gitt and Robert Heiber on “A Century of Sound.” There will also be screenings of films including Count Us In (1948), a presidential campaign short for the Progressive Party’s Henry Wallace, and Little Orphant Annie (1918), one of Collen Moore’s first starring roles, to be presented along with a 1912 audio recording of the eponymous James Whitcomb Riley … Read more