Wednesday, March 26
Welcome to the Orphan Film Symposium, Dan Streible (NYU)
Orphans 6 trailer by Bill Morrison (NYC)
Anywhere . . . A Tribute to Artist-Activist Helen Hill
“What is an orphan film?”
Interview outtake of HH from Orphan Ist. (2006, Lauren Heath, Erin Curtis, Mike Johns)
Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century (2001, Helen Hill)
Remarks by John Canemaker (NYU Animation Program)
Rain Dance (1990/2007, Helen Hill)
Bill Brand (BB Optics), Lauren Sorensen
(Canyon Cinema), Sarah Resnick (Todo Mundo),
Loni Shibuyama (ONE, National Gay and Lesbian
Archives)
Helen La Belle (1957, Lotte Reiniger) introduced by Tom De Smet (Haghefilm)
Vessel (1992, Helen Hill)
Phil’s Film Farm (2002, John Porter) introduced by John Porter (Toronto)
Helen Hill Award recipients Naomi Uman and Jimmy Kinder
presenters Susan Courtney & Laura Kissel (University of South Carolina)
Removed (1999, Naomi Uman)
Grandfather (2008, Jimmy Kinder)
Mouseholes (1999, Helen Hill) introduced by Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive)
Termite Light (2003, Hill/Egan)
&
Cleveland Street Gap (2006, Hill/Egan)
Courtney Egan (New Orleans Center for Creative
Arts)
[Home Movie Day New Orleans] (2006, Kelli Shay Hicks)
autoharp by Kelli Hix (Country Music Hall of
Fame and Museum)
Pistol Pete & Rayna Dae sing
“Emma Goldman” (Hill /Gailiunas) and “My Pink
Bike” (Hill)
[Helen Hill’s home movies] (ca. 2002-05)
Kara Van Malssen (NYU) & Dwight Swanson
(Center for Home Movies)
Think of Me First as a Person (1960-75, Dwight Core, Sr. & George Ingmire)
George Ingmire (Mi Abuelo Productions)
Quacks (1981)
remarks by Kevin & Becky Lewis (Columbia,
SC)
Scratch and Crow (1995, Helen Hill)
+ surprise finale
The House of Sweet Magic (1981)
Thursday, March 27
Welcome to Orphans 6
Richard Allen and Dan Streible (NYU Cinema
Studies)
The State of State AV Archives
The Invisible Men (Les Invisibles, Pathé,1906)
new 35mm print from NFSA Australia, Corricks
Collection
piano by Dennis James
Paolo Cherchi Usai (National Film and Sound Archive, Australia)
Keynote address
+ Stages Illustrating Development of Human Erect Posture (192?)
The Archive: Between the State and the Independent Filmmaker
Tan Bee Thiam (Asian Film Archive) Singapore’s
Independent Film Pioneer: Rajendra Gour and
the restoration of A Labour of Love (1976)
Lucy Smee (Asian Film Archive/BBC) Political Filmmaking
in Singapore: Preserving the Banned Videos of
Martyn See
Zhang Zhen (NYU) chair
“The Free and Independent Republic of Washington Square”
Leah Churner & Kathleen Maguire (NYU MIAP) introduce
[Washington Square Park] (1966, Bob Parent)
NYU Surveillance Film of 3/6/68 Dow Chemical Demonstration (1968)
Dan Drasin (filmaker) introducing his film Sunday (1961)
preserved by the UCLA Film and Television
Archive and The Film Foundation
Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives) & Steven Villereal (NYU MIAP)
A Different Kind of Movie: Gordon Hitchens
interviews Emile de Antonio (1967)
Ross Lipman (UCLA) Order, Disorder, and Point of Order!
(The Cropping of the Spectacle)
Camera News, Inc. & the Newsreel Collectives
Jonathan Kahana (NYU) on prison films, Attica, and Teach Our Children
Pamela Jean Smith (Pacific Film Archive) the PFA Newsreel Collection
SCREENING: Teach Our Children (1972, [Christine Choy & Susan Robeson])
Eric Breitbart (New York) on army film and The Army Film
SCREENING: The Army Film (1969, New York Newsreel)
Q&A
Seven Thousand Films for Government and Business
Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Library and Archives) Jam Handy and His Organization
Screening: The Border
Mark G. Cooper (U of South Carolina) and Mike Mashon
(Library of Congress)introduce If My Country
Should Call (1916), music by Dennis James,
narration by Karen Young
Gregorio Rocha (Archivia Films, Mexico City) with Viaje
por el sureste (1936), Charles Lindbergh, and
Jack Dempsey
Kim Tomadjoglou (AFI) introduces the restoration of La
Venganza de Pancho Villa (ca. 1930-34, Felix &
Edmundo Padilla)
Friday, March 28
Early U.S. Government Films
Jennifer Zwarich (NYU) The Bureaucratic Activist:
Federal Filmmakers and the Struggle for Social
Change in “Return to Normalcy” America
Charles Grimm (independent researcher) on
Department of Agriculture films
Richard Allen (NYU) moderator
Political Campaigns, Counterpropaganda Campaigns
Craig Breaden (U of Georgia) campaign ads for Gov.
Carl Sanders (1969-70, Albert & David Maysles)
+ comments by surprise guest Al Maysles (filmmaker)
Juana Suárez (U of Kentucky) & Ramiro Arbelaez (Univ.
del
Valle, Cali, Colombia) introduce Garras de oro
(The Dawn of Justice – Alborada de Justicia, 1926)
International Communications
Jennifer Horne (Catholic U) U.S. Information Agency
films under George Stevens, Jr.
SCREENING: James Blue’s Alliance for Progress trilogy (1963, USIA)
A Letter from Colombia, Evil Wind Out, & The
School at Rincon Santo
Zoë Druick (Simon Fraser U) Stories of International
Development: UNESCO’s World Without End
(1953, Basil Wright and Paul Rotha)
Robert Sklar (NYU) moderator
Extended Family Films from the Dutch East Indies
Elvira Pouw (for Julia Noordegraaf) (U of Amsterdam)
The Extended Family Film, De bedienden van de
familie Sanders (192?)
Nico de Klerk (Nederlands Filmmuseum) Treated Like a
King: Private Footage from the Dutch East
Indies,” Kwee compilation #2 (ca. 1929)
Strange Bedfellows
Mark J. Williams (Dartmouth) presents
Ronald Reagan presents The Orchid Award (1953,
ABC)
Mark Quigley & Dan Einstein (UCLA) A Meeting of
Church and State: Television’s Paulist Twilight
Zone: Insight (1963-1980)
SCREENING: “Locusts Have No King” (1965)
SCREENING: The Country
Melinda Stone (USF/StoneLake Farm) & Sam Sharkey
(www.howtohomestead.org) live via iChat video
from San Francisco,
with a homemade sing-along
and natural anthem “Everyone Needs a Hoe”
Naomi Uman (Helen Hill Award recipient) with her work-
in-progress Kalendar (shot in the Ukraine,
2007-08)
Devin Orgeron (NCSU) & George Stoney (filmmaker)
introduce Tar Heel Family (1949)
Naomi Uman con Leche (1998)
Saturday, March 29
New Frontiers in Digitizing Legacy Videotapes
Ann Butler and Brent Phillips (Fales Library), Sarah Ziebell (Bobst Library) and Jim Lindner (SAMMA Systems)
Digitizing the [U-matic] Downtown Collection: 1970s
experimental video
“Orphan Works”: Law, Policy, and the Moving Image
Howard Besser (NYU MIAP)
Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania)
Rina Elster Pantalony (Dept of Justice, Canada; NYU MIAP) discussion
for the real orphans . . .
George Willeman (Library of Congress) Salvaging The
Passaic Textile Strike (1926)
Gail Malmgreen (Tamiment Library) on the Jewish Labor
Committee’s Nos maisons d’enfants (1949,
France)
Left Films Left Behind
Charles Musser (Yale)
Paul Robeson, Vito Marcantonio, and People’s
Congressman (1948, Union Films)
Cynthia Young (International Center of Photography)
Inside the “Mexican suitcase”: Robert Capa,
Gerda Taro, and Chim
Román Gubern (Filmoteca Española) on El Laya Films
Noticiario de Laya unid. footage (ca. 1937)
Paula Félix-Didier (Museo del Cine) introduces
Noticiario de Laya No. 3 (1937)
Steven Marsh (U of South Carolina) respondent
Watching Human Rights
Laura Kissel (U of South Carolina) Representations
of Human Disability in Scientific and
Educational Films
Jason Livingston (Ithaca College) Onondagas vs. NYS
(Philip Mallory Jones and the Ithaca Video
Project, 1972)
Grace Lile (Witness Media Archive) Amateur video in
human rights advocacy
Mona Jimenez (NYU MIAP) chair
Army Films: Pro & Amateur
Bill Birch (843rd SSPD) and Greg Wilsbacher (U of
South Carolina) Why We Film: Signal Corps
Operations and WWII Newsreels
Marsha Orgeron (NCSU) Orphans of the War: The
Unofficial Record of Concentration Camps after
V-E Day
Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive) introduce the
newly-preserved Sam Fuller film V—E +1 May 9,
1945
Christa Lang Fuller (Chrisam Films, Inc.) Sam’s camera
SCREENING: A Celebratory Post-State Finale
Laura Rooney (AMIA) opening remarks
Dan Streible Ro-Revus Talks about Worms (1971,
USC/SCETV)
Skip Elsheimer (AV Geeks)Two Hundred (1976, USIA)
JoAnne Stober (Library and Archives Canada)
Friendly Interchange (1961, Alma Duncan and
Audrey McLaren)
Julie Hubbert (U of South Carolina)
Music for the Silent Newsreels (1930, Fox
Movietone News)
Yvonne Ng & Lisa Fehsenfeld (NYU MIAP)
The Story of Hackettstown (1933) and Romance
and Red Bank (1934)
Joseph Clark (Brown University) & Tom Regal (Universal
Studios) Sound from the Radio City Music Hall
premiere of Peace, By Adolph Hitler (1941, March
of Time)
Martha Kelly (KY/NY) Our Day (1938, Wallace Kelly)
Daniela Curró (Haghefilm) Encore: Think of Me First as a
Person (1960-75)
Peggy Ahwesh(Bard College) Beirut Outtakes (2007, Ms.
Ahwesh)
BENEDICTIONS
Ground Z (2005, two silent camera rolls by Jem
Cohen)
Tunnel of Love (1996, Helen Hill)
POSTLUDE
John Migliore (NYU MIAP) Gatorade
Snowden Becker (UT Austin) & Liz Coffey (Harvard Film Archive) pie
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