Quick note the start of the two-night orphan film events at Union Docs. In Brooklyn: the L and the CBG.
http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/01/22/three-questions-for-cullen-gallagher-about-the-orphan-film-symposium
Good times last January also, when Dr. Robbins Barstow's amateur film Disneyland Dream (1956) made it to the National Film Registry.
http://orphanfilmsymposium.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-is-why-we-do-what-we-do-save.html