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MADE TO PERSUADE
the 8th Orphan Film Symposium
at Museum of the Moving Image

Wed/4.11 •  Thurs/4.12 •  Fri/4.13 •  Sat/4.14

WEDNESDAY •  APRIL 11, 2012 •  8:00 PM

Persuasion | Transformation | Sensation

Orphans 8 trailer no. 1 (Russell Sheaffer, 2012)

Carl Goodman (Museum of the Moving Image) Greetings

Mother and Child (Tony Schwartz, 1968) Citizens for Humphrey-Muskie

Convention (Eugene Jones, 1968) Richard Nixon for President

Dan Streible (NYU) on Transformations (Ralph Sargent / IBM, 1968)

VO: "We can imagine we want to put giant computers into suitcases, and then sell them like hotcakes."

Benedict Salazar Olgado (NYU MIAP) introduces
Anke Mebold (Deutsches Filminstitut) on the new DIF restoration
and Tom Gunning (U of Chicago) on the German Sensationsfilm
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Die Hochbahnkatastrophe (Valy Arnheim, 1921)

aka The Elevated Train Catastrophe
(The 16th Sensational Adventure of Master Detective Harry Hill)

Dennis James pianist, Harrison M. Beck narrator

cell phone movie (0:42) End of Act 1