Even if you don't read Spanish, take a look at the report on Orphans 6 at the web site of the Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano. Juana Suárez and Ramiro Arbeláez, who presented the foundation's restoration of the Colombian feature film Garras de oro (1926), wrote this report after taking part in the symposium last spring.
Endearing is the phrase defining the concept of an orphan film:
"material de dominio público, películas caseras, producciones con propósito educativo, documentales independientes, películas etnográficas, noticieros, trabajos experimentales, películas mudas y muchas, muchas más que aparecen descritas en lengua de Shakespeare en este enlace: www.sc.edu/filmsymposium/orphanfilm.html."
The authors' essay about Garras de oro will appear in the Spring 2009 issue of The Moving Image, journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.
