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Orphans
9 souvenir:
Weeshuis-quaestie
(The Orphanage Question)
Table of Contents
40 movies
on the
Kingston DataTraveler 8GB USB drive
Kingston Technology supports the Orphan Film Symposium with
this USB Flashdrive that stores 8 gigabytes of data. In other words, it's an
orphaned item in the marketplace of 1 terabyte drives the size of your
thumbnail. But 8GB is enough for the Orphan Film Project partners and
symposiasts to give you the following digital and digitized items. Video files
are MPEG-4 unless noted otherwise.
MOV files from
EYE:
A Theatre revue:
8 films shot by Emile Lauste for Netherlandsche Biograph en Mutoscope Maatschappij
in 1899.
Weeshuis-quaestie (The Orphanage Question)
Naar ‘t Tolhuis (To the Tollhouse),
Een trambestorming op zondag op den Dam (Rushing the Tram
on Sunday at the Dam)
Watersnood in buurt YY (Flood in the YY Neighbourhood)
Amsterdams´s vreemdelingenverkeer (Amsterdam’s Tourist
Traffic)
De zieke gemeente- ambtenaar (The Sick Civil Servant)
Tolhuis! Kiele! Kiele! (Tollhouse! A Close Shave!)
Mark-Paul Meyer’s 1996 compilation Bits & Pieces. Nrs. 405 t/m 412
Trailer for East Is West restoration
(1:47)
Compilation of Maarten Visser films (3:41)
Promo
for EFG 1914 (3:00)
eye support
film (1:34)
From the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Trailer for The Last Edition (Emory Johnson, 1925) 1:45 (720x480, MOV,
119MB]
The
original 1925 trailer, with 2013 restoration credits. Music added in 2014 by
Joseph Twist, NYU Film Scoring Program, for the Orphan Film Symposium.
AmazingsTales
from the Archives (2013): Restoring the The
Half-Breed (1916) HD, 43:51
Rob
Byrne (SFSFF) on his restoration of the Douglas Fairbanks film.
Amazing Tales from the Archives
(2013): Le Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre (1900) HD, 20:26
Celine
Ruivo (Cinémathèque Française)
5 Things Seen at
Orphans 9
Edison
Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894 (W.K. L. Dickson, 1894) b&w/color, sd. 0:13 (MOV, 16MB)
Library of Congress YouTube channel
Edison
Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894 / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (David
Shepard,1971) 35mm, silent, b/&w, 169 ft.
Alternate
title: The Films of Thomas A Edison
presented by Raymond Rohauer
Source: Library of Congress
Music
added by George Willeman, 2013 (MOV, 154MB)
Lost Leaders #14 (Matt Soar, 2014) sound by Jackie Gallant.
HD, color, sd. 1:42
Promo
for Staging the Amateur Dispositif (Home Movies Project, 2014) color, sd., 0:56
Career of a Salesman (Harry
Foster,
1951/52), 35mm, b/w, sd., 10:49
(MOV, 640x432, 229MB)
Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment; also found in the stock footage library Archive Films, now part of Getty Images, from Prelinger Archives. Sometimes misattributed as a Jam Handy production of the 1960s with the same title.
Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment; also found in the stock footage library Archive Films, now part of Getty Images, from Prelinger Archives. Sometimes misattributed as a Jam Handy production of the 1960s with the same title.
20 Other
Obsolescent Objects
Small Town (1960,
Sandia Corp., US) 16mm, color, sd., 15:29 (640x360, 305MB)
Alternate titles: Small Town Espionage, Small Town Surveillance, Main Street, Main
Street, USA
Sources: U.S. National Archives and
Records Administration; Prelinger Archives; New York Police Museum
U.S. Central Intelligence agency
film purporting to show “Winizia, school for spies, Small Town, USSR.” Presented by Julia Kim (NYU MIAP) and Rachel
Moskowitz (the Winthrop Group) as part of a screening enttield “Surveillance,”
for UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, Brooklyn Historical Society,
Oct. 27, 2013.
What is a Bastard Film? Definition, Rationale, Controversy (Dan
Streible, 2013) color, sd., 3:30
(1920x1080, 69MB)
The Bastard Film Encounter’s keynote speaker Andrew Lampert
distinguishes “bastard films” from “orphan films.” Raleigh, North Carolina,
April 25, 2013. Also on YouTube.
[Andy Lampert’s Invocation at
the Bastard Film Encounter] (2013)
color., sd., 6:48 (1920x1080, 518MB)
Men and Dust (Lee
Dick, 1940) 35mm, b/w, sd., 16:01 (624x464, 271MB)
Producer:
Tri-State Survey Committee Inc.; Camera
and script: Sheldon Dick. Narrators: Storrs Haynes, Will Geer.
Source: U.S. National Archives and
Records Administation
Presented
by Dan Friedlaender and Adrianne Finelli at the 2012 Orphan Film Symosium (Made
to Persuade). Stylistically daring labor
advocacy film drawing attention to the industrial diseases plaguing zinc and
lead miners in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. In the public domain. http://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/orphans8/mov8/Men_and_Dust.mov
The 16mm Motion Picture Projector: Care and Maintenance (U.S. Air Force Photographic and Charting
Service , 1961) 16mm, b/w, sd., 13:10 (592x480, 276MB)
Source: Prelinger Archives, archive.org
The Future of Obsolescence (Benjamin Peeples, 2014) video, color, sd., 1:25 (960x720, 35MB)
Students from the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program train
on obsolete technologies; 16mm projectors and video decks, in both Ann Harris’
Moving Image and Sound class, and at the 2012 Home Movie Day 2012, Museum of
Modern Art.
Computer Chronicles: A Compilation (Benjamin Peeples, 2014) video, color, sd.,
13:46 (640x480, 328MB)
Source: Archive.org
The U.S. public television series Computer Chronicles (1983-2002) showed
new technologies and applications possible during the early days of home
computers. Clips here selected from episodes running from 1984 to 1992.
The B-Film Keeper (Gerda Johanna
Cammaer, 2009) 35mm/video, b/w, sd., 12:44 (640x480, 328MB)
A transformative work using clips from an unknown German silent
educational film about beekeeping that the filmmaker saved from a scrapheap at
the Instituto Nacional de Cinema Maputo, Mozambique, in 1999. See Cammaer, "Afterimages and
Afterthoughts about the Afterlife of Film: A Memory of Resistance," PhD
dissertation, Concordia University, 2010. See also the essay in L'avenir de
la Mémoire: Patrimoine, Restauration, Réemploi Cinématographiques, edited
by André Habib and Michel Marie (Éditions Septentrion 2013).
S.O.S. Sviluppo [S.O.S. Super8 Developing] (Karianne Fiorini, Bologna, IT, 2012)
Super8, b/w, si., 3:58 (1920x1080, 172MB)
200 (Vincent Collins, 1975) 16mm, color, sd.,
3:15 (640x480, 57MB)
Source: A/V Geeks
A USIA commissioned piece for the
United States Bicentennial of 1976. Presented by Skip Elsheimer at the 2008 NYU
Orphan Film Symposium.
The March in [on]
Washington (U.S. Information
Agency, 1963) 16mm, b/w, sd. 20:26
Source: U.S.
National Archives and Records Administration (identifier: 49737)
Footage from August 1963. Catalog description: “Scenes from Civil
Rights March in Washington, D.C., August 1963. People walking up sidewalk;
gathering on Mall, standing, singing. Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument,
crowd gathered on the Mall. People marching with signs, many men wearing UAW
hats. People at speakers podium, men with guitars. Crowds outside of the White
House, sign: The Catholic University of America. Band, people marching down
street. Many signs, including All D.C. wants to vote! Home Rule for DC; Alpha
Phi Alpha; and Woodstock Catholic Seminary for Equal Rights. Lincoln Memorial
with crowds gathered around reflecting pool. People singing and clapping at
speakers platform. Signs, people clapping. Man speaking, woman playing guitar
and singing at podium. More speakers and shots of the crowd. A chorus, NAACP
men in crowd. Close-ups of people in crowd with bowed heads. Shots taken from
above of White House. More speakers, including Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Women at podium singing We Shall Overcome. Crowd swaying, singing, holding
hands.”
Not to be
confused with the USIA’s 33-minute film The
March, directed by James Blue, which was added to the Library of Congress
National Film Registry in 2008, and digitally restored
by NARA in 2013, viewable at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQYzHIIQ1O4. See Audrey Amidon, “Making The March,”
Media Matters: The Blog of the Naitonal Archives’ Special Media Archives
Services Division, Aug. 20, 2013: http://blogs.archives.gov/mediamatters/2013/08/20/making-the-march.
Felicia (Robert Dickson, Alan Gorg,
Trevor Greenwood, 1965) 16mm, b/w, sd., 12:22 (640x480, 211MB)
Source: A/V Geeks, archive.org
+ MP3 of Marsha Gordon and Allyson Nadia Field
introducing the screening of Felicia
at Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving Image, Indiana University, 2013.
Notes
by Gordon & Field:
This documentary marketed as
an educational film, is an exceptional document of life in the Watts
neighborhood of Los Angeles prior to the rebellions that took place in the
summer of 1965. The filmmakers were UCLA film students at the time this 16mm
film was independently made. Most educational films about race made in the
1960s and 1970s focus on African American males in an urban environment, so
from the outset Felicia’s concentration
on a female protagonist and point of view sets the film apart. Felicia is built around the first person
narration of Felicia Bragg, a high school student of African American and
Hispanic descent. The film was made in the documentary
tradition, largely using non-synchronous, first person voiceover along with
footage of her actual family home, mother and siblings, high school, and
neighborhood. The filmmakers created a
relevant time capsule of cultural and historical significance, thanks largely
to the articulate, soft-spoken young woman who openly shared her feelings about
growing up in a neighborhood that would become a symbol of national unrest by
the end of the year it was released.
Wolf Vostell’s 130 à l’heure from the
series 9 Nien-deColl/agen (1963, as
revisited in 1998) 16mm, b/w, si. 2:10 (592x480, 33MB)
Source: Tina Bastajian
[demo: making 9.5mm
film from 16] (David Landolf, 2013) video, color, sd.,
0:49. (1920x1080, 13MB)
Source: Reto Kromer, http://reto.ch/training/2013/20131214/20131214.mp4
Paul Goy,
president of Film Club 9.5 (Bern, Switzerland) demonstrates a machine that
converts16mm film prints into 9.5mm perforated film.
[unidentified
film clip] (b/w, si.) :35
Source: Matěj Strnad
[Erotisk
kompilation] (1920) b/w,
tinting, sil. 1:06
Source: Danish Film
Institute
How to Recycle Videotape (Undercurrents.org) 1:03
31 Seconds of Sadness (Richard Frank) color, si., MOV. 1:02
Trailer for Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch (Charles Musser, 2014) HD 2:31
The Great Swindle (Union Films, 1948) 16mm, b/w,
sd., 21:19 (57MB)
Directed by Carl Aldo Marzani, for the United Electrical,
Radio, and Machine Workers of America.
Source: Prelinger Archives, archive.org
Included here in recognition of
Charles Musser’s on-going research on Marzani’s Union Films production company.
Writing Union Films back into the historiography of American documentary,
Musser has also presented rediscovered or newly-preserved editions of these
short works at each Orphan Film Symposium since 2008: People’s Congressman (1948 film, found by Alice Moscoso in NYU’s
Tamiment Library, Marzani Collection); A
People’s Convention (ditto); The
Investigators (1948); and, in 2014, Industry’s
Disinherited (1949).
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6 PDFs
Necsus European Journal of Media Studies, no. 4
(2013): 321-625. Special section: WASTE, co-editors Alexandra Schneider and
Wanda Strauven.
Programs
from “The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films,”
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Linwood Dunn Theater, Hollywood,
May 10-11, 2013. Curated by May Haduong and Dan Streible.
Program from Orphans Midwest: Materiality and the Moving
Image, a symposium at Indiana University Cinema, co-presented by New York
University Cinema Studies and Indian University Libraries Film Archive.
Reports (2) from the Media Presevation Intiative, Indiana
University, 2011.
“The ‘Ten Best’ Winners, 1930-1994, from the Amateur Cinema
League and American International Film & Video Festival.” Compiled by Alan
D. Kattelle, published in Film History, 15,
no. 2, Small-gauge and Amateur Film (2003): 244-51.
See
annotations on this PDF. We are seeking
to find titles from this list, in part for an on-line exhibition of ten amateur
films (http://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/amateurfilms).
