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The NFPF Presents “Saving Orphan Films”
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| Faces & Fortunes (1959), one of seven NFPF grant films screening at the Wexner Center for the Arts. |
On Saturday, February 25, a screening of films preserved through the NFPF will take place at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Titled “Saving ‘Orphan’ Films,” it’s one of several programs scheduled for the Center’s “Cinema Revival: A Festival of Film Restoration.”
The screening will be introduced by NFPF Executive Director Jeff Lambert, who in a recent interview by the Wexner Center’s blog discusses the mission of the NFPF and its work. He also touches upon the films that will be screened in 35mm and 16mm, whose variety demonstrates the wide range of films preserved by our grant programs. The titles are:
• Fifty Million Years Ago (1925), an introduction to the theory of evolution told through stop-motion animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
• Faces & Fortunes … Read more
2017 Film Preservation Grants: Register by January 27
The NFPF is now accepting registrations for this year’s federally funded grants. We offer two types, which support the preservation of historically and culturally significant American “orphan” films. The registration deadline is Friday, January 27. Completed applications will be due Friday, February 24.
Basic Preservation Grants represent the most common cash grant offered by the NFPF. They fund laboratory work to create preservation masters and access copies of American films unlikely to survive without public support. They are awarded to nonprofit and public institutions in the United States that provide public access to their film collections. Awards range from $1,000 to $18,000. Keep in mind that films created for video or television are ineligible. Before applying, please carefully review the Basic Grant guidelines.
Institutions that have successfully completed at least one NFPF-funded … Read more
Now Online: Treasures From American Film Archives
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| William S. Hart in Hell’s Hinges (1916), one of nearly four dozen films from Treasures from American Film Archives that are now online. |
Today the NFPF makes freely available for online viewing 47 films from its first DVD set, Treasures from American Film Archives. Originally released in 2000 and hailed by Roger Ebert as “a treasure trove of old, obscure, forgotten, rediscovered, and fascinating footage from the first century of film,” Treasures marked the first time that America’s archives had joined forces to share their films with home video audiences and showcase the amazing range of American films. It received an award from the National Society of Film Critics and was called the “best set of the year” by The New York Times. Treasures eventually sold out, as did an Encore edition made possible through the support of the Cecil B. De Mille Foundation. We are committed to keeping the … Read more
Celebrate Thanksgiving "For Liberty and Union"
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| For Liberty and Union (1977) |
Now available for public viewing on the NFPF website, For Liberty and Union is an example of sponsored filmmaking in the service of history. It is a dramatization of the 1861 convention that led to West Virginia breaking away from Confederate Virginia during the Civil War and becoming a new state. The film was sponsored by the West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and restoring the Wheeling Custom House, where Unionist delegates held their fateful convention. Produced by Larry Keating Productions and local filmmaker Ellis Dungan in 1977, For Liberty and Union was also filmed within the Custom House, whose restoration was nearing completion. Opened as a museum and rechristened the West Virginia Independence Hall, the building today screens the film for visitors. This online presentation is made … Read more
2017 NFPF Grants Announcement and Deadlines
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Attention archivists! The National Film Preservation Foundation has just announced its 2017 federally funded grants, made possible by the Library of Congress Sound Recording and Film Preservation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2016.
The NFPF offers two types of federal cash grants that support the preservation of historically and culturally significant American “orphan” films.
The registration deadline for both is Friday, January 27, 2017.
Completed applications are due Friday, February 24, 2017.
Basic Preservation Grants fund laboratory work to create preservation masters and access copies, and are open to nonprofit and public institutions in the United States that provide public access to their film collections. Awards range from $1,000 to $18,000.
Matching Grants help experienced institutions undertake larger-scale projects; applicants may request cash stipends of between $18,001 and … Read more