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Archive Spotlight: Chicago Film Archives
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| Lord Thing (1970) by DeWitt Beall, courtesy Chicago Film Archives. |
One of the things we hope to do regularly on this blog is bring attention to some of the work being done by the organizations who participate in our preservation program.
The Chicago Film Archives is a great example of what a small-scale organization can accomplish through determination and ingenuity. Established in 2003 by Executive Director Nancy Watrous as a repository for the 5,000-item film collection that was being disposed of by the Chicago Public Library, the CFA has rapidly grown into an important regional archive holding more than 20,000 films, the earliest of which—A Pictorial Story of Hiawatha—dates back to 1903.
In 2005, the CFA was awarded its first grant from the NFPF to preserve Fairy Princess (1956), a short film by amateur moviemaker Margaret Conneely that was named one of the Photographic Society … Read more
Sponsored Films in Glorious Technicolor
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| The Story of Creative Capital (1957), courtesy the Hagley Museum & Library. |
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Technicolor Motion Picture Company, the developers of the color process that vividly brought the palette of the world to movie screens, the NFPF is pleased to present two short sponsored films made using the innovative technique.
The Story of Creative Capital (1957) is an animated lark from John Sutherland Productions made in cooperation with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and the Chamber of Commerce. A paean to the importance of business in American life, the film stresses the vital role of the individual investor to the capitalist system. With its jazzy color scheme and Les Baxter soundtrack, The Story of Creative Capital exemplifies the pop culture tendencies that drive many sponsored films.
Mrs. Mortimer Jones Prepares “Dinner for Eight” (1934) … Read more
The NFPF Invites You to Access Alley
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| Julius Adler and Henrietta Jacobson in Catskill Honeymoon (1950). |
Welcome to the National Film Preservation Foundation’s new blog, Access Alley. We’ll be using this space to share preserved films, highlight new preservation initiatives, provide scholarly writing, and spotlight screenings happening around the world. To celebrate this new endeavor we are posting Catskill Honeymoon (1950), a playful feature-length variety revue directed by Josef Berne. The film itself is a celebration; to commemorate 50 years of marriage, a Jewish couple travels to the Young’s Gap Hotel in the Catskills and is treated to a stage show full of Borscht Belt stalwarts and Yiddish singers galore. Catskill Honeymoon is also a document of a cultural moment in Jewish American life that is now long past. We hope you enjoy this valuable slice of film history preserved by the G. William Jones Film and Video … Read more