NYU Cinema Studies and its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program host this 6th symposium on the preservation, study and creative use of orphan films.
Join the growing group of moving image archivists, preservationists, scholars, curators, lab experts, collectors, students, and filmmakers screening and discussing rare and neglected film and video.
Orphans 6--held for the first time in New York City--focuses on works of/about/by/against/under ‘the state,’ broadly conceived. Speakers will address the role of orphan films in recording, representing, constructing, and imagining the state, as well as the work of state-run AV archives worldwide.
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(Thursday - Saturday details subject to change)
Wednesday, March 26
| 8:00 pm |
A Tribute to Helen Hill
- Remarks by John Canemaker (2006 Academy Award, Best Animated Short Film)
- Presentation of the Helen Hill Award by Susan Courtney and Laura Kissel (University of South Carolina)
- Screening of work by Bill Morrison, Naomi Uman, John Porter, Courtney Egan, Jimmy Kinder, Kelli Hix
- Helen Hill's own films:
Quacks (1981)
Rain Dance (1990/2007)
Scratch and Crow (1995)
Mouseholes (1999)
Madame Winger Makes a Film (2001)
Termite Light (2003, Hill/Egan)
Cleveland Street Gap (2006, Hill/Egan)
New Orleans Home Movies
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Helen La Belle (1957, Lotte Reiniger) premiere of the restoration
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Think of Me First as a Person (1960-1975, Dwight Core, Sr. and George Ingmire) premiere
- Introductions by Bill Brand (BB Optics), Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive), Dwight Swanson (Center for Home Movies), Kara Van Malssen (NYU), Kevin Lewis, Becky Lewis, Paul Gailiunas, Francis Pop, Pistol Pete and others
Special thanks to:
Russ Suniewick & the artisans at Colorlab
Peter Limburg, Tom De Smet & the artisans at Haghefilm
Richard Carlson at Kodak
The Maxine Greene Foundation for Social Imagination, the Arts & Education
Women's Film Preservation Fund
New York Women in Film and Television
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Thursday, March 27
| 9:15 am |
Welcome to Orphans 6
Richard Allen & Dan Streible (NYU) |
| 9:30 am |
The State of State AV Archives
The Invisible Men (1906)
New print from National Film and Sound Archive, Australia. Piano accompaniment by Dennis James.
- Paolo Cherchi Usai (National Film and Sound Archive, Australia)
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| 10:45 am |
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) Political Filmmaking in Singapore: Preserving the Banned Videos of Martyn See
- Zhang Zhen (NYU) chair
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| 1:15 pm |
‘The Free and Independent Republic of Washington Square’
- Dan Drasin introducing his film Sunday (1961)
- [Washington Square Park] (1966, Bob Parent)
- NYU Surveillance Film of 3/6/68 Dow Chemical Demonstration (1968)
- Ross Lipman (UCLA) on restoring Point of Order (1963)
- Andrew Lampet (Anthology Film Archives)
A Different Kind of Movie: Gordon Hitchens interviews Emile de Antonio (1967)
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| 3:00 pm |
Camera News, Inc. & the Newsreel Collectives
- Jonathan Kahana (NYU) on prison films, Attica, and Teach Our Children
- Pamela Jean Smith (Pacific Film Archive) on the PFA Newsreel Collection
- Screening: Teach Our Children (1972, [Christine Choy & Susan Robeson])
- Eric Breitbart (New York) on army film and
The Army Film (1969, New York Newsreel)
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| 5:15 pm |
Seven Thousand Films for Government and Business
- Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Library and Archives)
Jam Handy and His Organization
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| 8:15 pm |
EVENING SCREENINGS: Mexican-U.S. Borders
- Mark G. Cooper (University of South Carolina) and Mike Mashon (Library of Congress) introduce If My Country Should Call (1916), music accompaniment by Dennis James
- Gregorio Rocha (Mexico City) with the restored Viaje por el sureste (1936)
- Kim Tomadjoglou (AFI) & Davide Pozzi (Cineteca di Bologna) introduce the premiere of the restored La Venganza de Pancho Villa (ca. 1930-34, Felix and Edmundo Padilla
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Friday, March 28
| 9:15 am |
Early U.S. Government Films
- Jennifer Zwarich (NYU) on Department of Interior film production, 1908-1940
- Charles Grimm (independent researcher) on Department of Agriculture film
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| 10:45 am |
Political Campaigns, Counterpropaganda Campaigns
- Craig Breaden (University of Georgia) Maysles brothers’ campaign ads for Carl Sanders (1969-70)
- Juana Suárez (U of Kentucky) and Ramiro Arbelaez (Universidad del Valle) on Garras de oro (1926, Colombia). Piano accompaniment by Ben Model.
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| 1:45 pm |
International Communications
- Jennifer Horne (Catholic University) on U.S. Information Agency films under George Stevens
- Screening: James Blue’s "Alliance for Progress" trilogy (1963)
- Zoë Druick (Simon Fraser University) Stories of International Development: UNESCO’s World Without End (1953, Basil Wright and Paul Rotha)
- Robert Sklar (NYU) moderator
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| 3:30 pm |
Extended Family Films from the Dutch East Indies
- Julia Noordegraaf & Elvira Pouw (U of Amsterdam) The Extended Family Film, De bedlenden van de familie Sanders (192?)
- Nico de Klerk (Nederlands Filmmuseum) Kwee compilation #2 (ca. 1929)
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| 4:45 pm |
Strange Bedfellows
- Mark J. Williams (Dartmouth) The Orchid Award (1953, ABC)
- Mark Quigley & Dan Einstein (UCLA) Insight: A Syndicated, Paulist Twilight Zone, 1963-1980: Screening of episode “Locusts Have No King” (1965)
- Anna McCarthy (NYU) moderator
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| 8:00 pm |
EVENING SCREENINGS: The Country
- Melinda Stone (U of San Francisco) a found sing-along national anthem film (193?)
- Naomi Uman (Helen Hill Award recipient)
Kalendar (2007)
- Devin Orgeron (North Carolina State University) & George C. Stoney (NYU) introduce Tar Heel Family (1949)
- Naomi Uman's Leche (1998)
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Saturday, March 29
| 9:30 am |
New Frontiers in Digitizing Legacy Videotapes
- Ann Butler & Brent Phillips (Fales Library), Sarah Ziebell, and Jim Lindner (Media Matters)
Digitizing the [U-matic] Downtown Collection
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| 10:30 am |
‘Orphan Works’ Legislation and the Moving Image
- Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania)
Howard Besser (NYU MIAP)
Rina Pantalony (Department of Justice Canada & Ministère du Patrimoine Canadien)
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| 11:50 pm |
For the real orphans
- George Willemen (Library of Congress) Salvaging The Passaic Textile Strike (1926)
- Gail Malmgreen (Tamiment Library) on the Jewish Labor Committee's Nos Maison d'Enfants (1949, France
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| 1:45 pm |
Left Films Left Behind
- Charles Musser (Yale) & Steven Higgins (Museum of Modern Art) on Paul Robeson, Vito Marcantonio, and The People’s Congressman (1948)
- Román Gubern (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) on El Laya Films
- Paula Félix-Didier (Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires) introduces Noticiario de Laya no. 3 (1937)
- Steven Marsh (University of South Carolina), respondent
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| 3:30 pm |
Watching Human Rights
- Laura Kissel (USC) Representations of Human Disability in Scientific and Educational Films
- Jason Livingston (Ithaca College) Onondagas vs. NYS (Phil Mallory Jones and the Ithaca Video Project 1972)
- Grace Lile (Witness Media Archive) amateur video as agent for human rights
- Mona Jimenez (NYU MIAP) chair
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| 5:15 pm |
Army Films: Pro and Amateur
- Bill Birch (843rd SSPD) and Greg Wilsbacher (University of South Carolina) on Signal Corps Operations and WWII Newsreels
- Marsha Orgeron (NCSU) The Unofficial Film Record of Concentration Camps after V-E Day
- Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive) and Christa Lang Fuller (Chrisam Films) introduce the newly preserved film Sam Fuller’s Falkenau liberation footage (1945)
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| 8:30 pm |
FINAL SCREENING:
A Celebratory Finale of Eclectic Orphaniana
Including
- NYC Street Scenes and Noises (Fox Movietone News, 1929)
- Julie Hubbert (USC) Music for the Silent Newsreels (Fox Movietone News, 1930)
- Encore: Think of Me First as a Person (1960-1975)
- Yvonne Ng & Lisa Fehsenfeld (NYU) The Story of Hackettstown (1933)
- Sound from the Radio City Music Hall premiere of Peace, By Adolph Hitler (1941). Introduced by Joseph Clark (Brown University) and Tom Regal (Universal Studios)
- Our Day (1938, Wallace Kelly) introduced by Martha Kelly (KY/NY)
- Friendly Interchange (1961, Alma Duncan and Audrey McLaren) introduced by JoAnne Stober (Library and Archives Canada)
- Beirut Ottakes (2007, Ms. Ahwesh) introduced by Peggy Ahwesh
- Bohemian Town (2004, Helen Hill)
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WHAT IS AN "ORPHAN FILM"?
Generally, all manner of films outside the commercial mainstream: amateur, educational, ethnographic, industrial, government, experimental, censored, independent, sponsored, obsolescent, small-gauge, silent, student, medical, unreleased and underground films, as well as kinescopes, home movies, test reels, newsreels, outtakes, fringe TV, and other ephemeral moving images. More... |
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