Saturday, May 11th -- 10:30 am to 11 pm
screenings include

Building the Hollywoodland Sign (Fox newsfilm footage, 1923) from the University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections

* The Bishop of Hollywood (Fred Caldwell, 1924) a rediscovered short from the five-film series produced by "Hollywood Comedies"
The Love Charm (1928) two-strip Technicolor; NFPF New Zealand rediscovery
Felix Ferdinando and His Orchestra in Musical Moments (Bristolphone, 1930)
projected on an original Western Electric/Vitaphone 16mm sound-on-disk system

When the Organ Played “Oh Promise Me” (ca. 1943) sole surviving Auroratone
* City Harvest (OWI, ca. 1943-44) "victory gardening" in Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods; new 35mm print
* Two: A Film Fable (Satyajit Ray, 1964) short for Esso World Theatre
* Help! My Snowman's Burning Down (Carson Davidson, 1964)
female-narrated trailers: The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967), Helga (1968), Fantastic Planet (1973), et al.
* A Place to Stand 70mm multiscreen film for Expo '67
home movies of Expo 67 (1967) collected by Walter Forsberg and his remakes of same
excerpt from The Shape of Films to Come (CBS, 1968) Walter Cronkite-narrated documentary about the expanded cinema at Expo 67, made for the TV series The Twenty-first Century and distributed by McGraw-Hill as a classroom film
Transformations (Ralph Sargent for IBM, 1968) introduced by the director
Hey Mama (Vaughn Obern, 1969) UCLA student film about Black Venice
* Shit (Penelope Spheeris, 1969) introduced by the director
excerpt from Don't Bank on Amerika (Peter Biskind, 1970) from UC Santa Barbara Film Archive
From Here to There (Saul Bass, 1970)
footage of the Hollywood Gay Pride Parade (Pat Rocco, 1971)
What About Thad? (BYU Motion Picture Studio, 1973)
Naked Yoga (Paul Cordsen, 1974) excerpt, Best Documentary Short Subject
* Exploratorium (Jon Boorstin, 1974) introduced by the director
Mission to Mongo (Jim Hoberman, 1978) from Anthology Film Archives
Being Alone (Bonneville Productions, 1980) two-minute TV spot for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Lead In wraparounds for Black Entertainment Television (Thom Eubank and Saundra Sharp, 1981)
a New Orleans Super8 home movie (Helen Hill, ca. 2000-2003)
excerpt from Rick Prelinger's work in progress No More Road Trips?
and more. . .

* = preserved by the Academy Film Archive
Talks by Academy curators, including Josef Lindner, Lynne Kirste, Mark Toscano, Sean Savage, Ed Carter, Heather Linville, Brian Meacham, Cassie Blake, and Tessa Idlewine, with May Haduong.

From co-host NYU: Walter Forsberg and Dan Streible.
From UCLA: Jan-Christopher Horak, Mark Quigley, Todd Wiener, Snowden Becker.
Plus, Rick Prelinger, Jacqueline Stewart (Northwestern U), filmmaker Jon Boorstin, artist S. Pearl Sharp, Ralph Sargent (Film Technology Co.), Priya Jaikumar (University of Southern California), Hadrian Belove (the Cinefamily), Dino Everett (USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive), Jeff Lambert (NFPF), Liz Keim and Kathleen Maguire (the Exploratorium), Ross Melnick and Chuck Wolfe (UC Santa Barbara Film Archive), + pianist Michael Mortilla.

Thanks to Mike Pogorzelski and Randy Haberkamp.

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and

Orphans Midwest @ Indiana University (Sept. 26-28, 2013)

Theme: Materiality and the Moving Image

Keynote: Tom Gunning

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and -- Call for Presentations coming April 2013 --

Orphans 9 -- The Future of Obsolescence

Amsterdam / March 30 - April 2, 2014
@

Film Institute Netherlands
with

Aye!

Spy inside.

on the river IJ.

IJpromenade 1
1031 KT Amsterdam, The Netherlands