Count down to the Orphant Medley

See the official program pop up here.

Counting down: 12 days from now the 10th Orphan Film Symposium will be in full swing at the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, with 108 presenters talking (and singing) about 100, or so, revivified works, presented in film, video, audio, and digital formats. For 3 days and 4 nights more than 175 participants (not counting all of the AV archivists who work in the building) gather from nearly 20 nations, including some places represented for the first time (Bolivia, Ghana, and Kosovo). Speakers also include a trio from Mexico, a quartet from Argentina, and of course many from across the United States.

The theme of "Orphans X" is sound. We will hear not only sound from orphaned films, but audio recordings of radio, oral histories, documentary, and a vivid mix of musics (Haitian, Tibetan, Argentine tango, early computer experiments, Chopin, jazz, and American pop -- of 1913 -- et cetera). And the doyen of Hollywood film restoration, Robert Gitt, offers a richly illustrated history of sound in the movies from 1933 to 1972. Helen Hill Award recipient Sasha Waters Freyer even offers a film narrated in Esperanto!

Other content ranges from short amateur audio recordings to feature-length films, starting with Manu Luksch and Martin Reinhart presenting their new Dreams Rewired, an Austrian-German-British co-production. The symposium closes with a memorable program -- "Celebrating Sounds from Everywhere: A Orphant* Medley" -- at the historic State Theatre of Culpeper. Imagine an evening that opens with a Theremin prelude (by Adam O'Callaghan), moves to a new multimedia production by Bill Morrison (Little Orphant Annie, 1912/1918/2016) and a 1927 documentary made in Bolivia (restored by Cinemateca Boliviana), concludes with a David Bowie performance captured by video artist Nam June Paik -- only to be continued, after dessert and drinks, with a bonus screening that is nothing less than the premiere of a never-before-seen Andy Warhol film.

All with shared food and drink throughout.

Registration is open to all.  (Day rates available if you can't attend all of April 6 through 9).

See the official program pop-up booklet here. 

#orphans10

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* "Orphant"?  Yes.

courtesy of Bill Morrison; from a Library of Congress print of Little Orphant Annie (1918).

I previously only knew of Little Orphan [sic] Annie, from the comic strip cum 1977 Broadway musical. "Orphant" is not, as I first guessed, a colloquialism for "orphaned." A popular 1885 poem by James Whitcomb Riley,was reprinted in 1889 with an embrace of the original typsetting error as "Little Orphant Annie." There followed The Orphant Annie Book (1908), Riley's reading on phonograph disc (Victor, 1912), the Raggedy Ann doll (1915), a silent film with Colleen Moore (Little Orphant Annie, 1918), The Orphant Annie Story Book (1921), the Little Orphan [sic] Annie comic strip (begun in 1924), et cetera, et cetera.

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Complete Program for the 10th Orphan Film Symposium, April 6-9, 2016

Now available as a downloadable PDF, the complete listing of presentations, screenings, and events for "Orphans X."

The 10th Orphan Film Symposium is devoted to SOUND. Join NYU Cinema Studies at the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, in Culpeper, Virginia, April 6-9, 2016.
Read all about it here.

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzSIDhh6RIKRTlU1aTV4LUo2LU0/view?usp=sharing

Sensational Song Films from the film archive Permanencia Voluntaria in Tepoztlán, MX

As people continue to register to attend next month's Orphan Film Symposium, here's another enticing sample of what we will be seeing and hearing.  A half hour out of nearly thirty hours of programming at "Orphans X," which is devoted to the theme of sound. 

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Paulina Suárez-Hesketh, Michael Ramos-Araizaga, & Viviana García Besne​ offer these three orphan films rescued by Permanencia Voluntaria, in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico. 

Sensational Song Films

La zandunga pre-production footage (1937-1938)
A location-scouting trip for the folkloric musical La zandunga (1938) took young producer Pedro Calderón to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, where the prestige picture was to be set. With a 16mm camera in hand, he recorded sights, subjects, customs, and events that provide a precious glimpse of everyday life in rural Oaxaca.

La Rebelión de los Adolescentes (Teen Rebels, 1959)
Trailers announce and introduce the feature film, evoking joy and anticipation, like the buzz of an orchestra before a live performance. This trailer is the epilogue, and only surviving trace, of a youth rock film that no longer exists.  

Bellas de Noche (Beauties of the Night, 1975)
How can a film be loved and hated at the same time? Bellas de Noche was detested by critics and intellectuals, and yet one of the most successful exploitation films of its time. No official archive in Mexico houses a copy of this film. The two prints presented here were offered on donation to institutions dedicated to film preservation. Both the 16 and 35mm copies were rejected and sent back along with a letter recommending their immediate destruction.






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Full program of the 10th Orphan Film Symposium: 4 days and nights, 75 presenters.

NYU Cinema Studies and the Library of Congress host the 

10th Orphan Film Symposium

April 6-9, 2016

Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation

Culpeper, Virginia

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6
3:00pm to 5:00pm Tour the Library of Congress Packard Campus

All sessions in the Packard Theater (except for the Saturday night show).

8:00 pm Movie Tones, Radiotelephones, and Tele-vision
Debut restoration of The Edison Kinetophone (1912)
Robert Anen & Ina Archer (NYU) British Actors and Actresses outtakes (Fox Movietone News, 1928)
Manu Luksch & Martin Reinhart with Dreams Rewired (Luksch, Reinhart, & Thomas Tode, 2015) an essay film about audio-visual technologies – telephony, cinema, tele-vision -- that changed human consciousness; a montage using nearly 200 silent-era and early-sound films from archives around the world
 
THURSDAY, APRIL 7
9:30am About Orphans X: Sound
Mike Mashon (LOC) & Dan Streible (NYU) opening remarks
+ Susan Courtney (USC) The Sounds and Silences of Operation A-Bomb (1952)

10:00am Preservation Provocations for the 21st Century
Rick Prelinger (UCSC) Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: New Talking Points
Evan Meaney (USC) introduces Big_Sleep™ (Meany & Amy Szczepanski, 2015) a codec tutorial and documentary meditation on digital decay
Jonathan Farbowitz (NYU) moderator

11:30am Paper and Sounds from The Library 
The Film of Her (Bill Morrison, 1996) a cine-poem about paper films
Bill Morrison excerpts his never-released 1992 interviews with Howard Walls and Kemp Niver, curators of the Paper Print Collection preserved by the Library of Congress and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Alexis Ainsworth & Ken Weissman (LOC) premiering new 3k scan of Spirit of '76 (American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1905)
Jerry Fabris (Edison National Historical Park) & George Willeman (LOC) Marrying Edison Kinetophone Cylinders and Films: Premieres of The Deaf Mute, Jack’s Joke, The Musical Blacksmiths, et al. (1913)
Caroline Frick (UT Austin) moderator
 
LUNCH catered at LOC

1:30pm Sound and Color
Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State U) Color Film and the Coming of Sound
Ulrich Ruedel (U of Applied Sciences, Berlin) Film Sound and Color since 1929
Heather Heckman (U of South Carolina) Continuous Monochrome: The Problem of the Soundtrack in Chromogenic Color Printing, with test clips from 35mm prints of Carson City (1952), The Iron Mistress (1952), and The Moonlighter (1953)

3:00pm Raw Sounds of WWII
Jeff Martin (independent) Recorded Voice of Edward W. Stewart, JZJ, 9.535MC, 11:00 - 11:38 AM CWT, Tokyo-Japan (R. P. Read, 1943): Amateur Recordings of Short-Wave Broadcasts from Japanese POW Camps
Matt Barton (LOC) U.S. Marine Corps Combat Recordings, 1943-1945
Melissa Dollman (UNC) Fifteen Dozen Rosies: Field Research Audiotapes in the Records of The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter Project, 1974-1980

4:30pm Greg Wilsbacher (USC MIRC) Beaten by Your Own Scoop: Early Synch-Sound Newsreel, Admiral Byrd, and the Orteig Prize
            New York to Paris Flyers – outtakes (Fox News, 1927)
            Crew of the ‘America’ Speaks – outtakes (Fox Movietone News, 1927)
 
DINNER catered at Shawn's Smokehouse BBQ

8:00 pm Robert Gitt & Robert Heiber (Rick Chace Foundation) A Century of Sound

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FRIDAY, APRIL 8

9:30am Classical Music and “Silent-era” Cinema
Julie Hubbert (USC) introduces
* Walter Damrosch and the N. Y. Symphony Orchestra in France (Fox News outtakes, 1920) USC MIRC
* Walter Damrosch Visits Schenectady and Sees Picture of Sound, 1929 (Academy Film Archive)
* Premier nocturne en fa # majeur de Chopin, Interprété par Victor Gille (Gaumont-Petersen-Poulsen, 1928), new restoration by Cinémathèque française
Anke Mebold (Deutsches Filminstitut) Tonbilder from the Neumayer Collection, 1908-09: Synchronizing Discs and Films from Deutsche Bioscop and Alfred Duskes
+ Laurel Howard (LOC) and Craig Schreiber sing live with Flotte Bursche (Duett, “Willst du scheiden”) Nr. 47 (Deutsche Bioscop, 1908)
Stephen Bottomore (independent) The Selsior System Dance Films: [Ernest Belcher/Dorothy Edwards dancing] (Boris Sagal, 1913-14)
Hilde D'haeyere (University College Ghent, Belgium) "Cannibals of the Deep”: Mack Sennett's The Trail of the Swordfish (1931)

11:30am Listening to New Histories of American Radio
Josh Shepperd (Catholic U) The Radio Preservation Task Force as National Research Project
Alan Gevinson & Rachel Curtis (LOC) The American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Nat Hentoff’s series The Evolution of Jazz (NERN, 1953)
Wendy Shay (Smithsonian NMAH) Hills Bros. Tune of the Day (1934)
Joseph Gallucci (Pacifica Radio Archives) American Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982
Stephanie Sapienza (U of Maryland MITH) National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1952-1970
Jenny Doctor (Belfer Audio Archive, Syracuse University) Flying saucers, ESP, and Psychic Phenomena: The Long John Nebel Audio Collections (WNBC, 1964-69)
Dan Einstein & Mark Quigley (UCLA Film & Television Archive) Preserving Rediscovered Transcription Disks of The Goldbergs: Episode #1297 [Sammy Goes Into The Army] (CBS, 1942)
Shawn VanCour (NYU) moderator

LUNCH catered at LOC

2:15pm Scoring Documentaries
Julie Brown (U of London) The Original Atmospheric Presentations of The Epic of Everest (1924): Orchestral Score and Tibetan Music
Blake McDowell (Smithsonian NMAAHC) Paul Bowles Film Scores: Bride of Samoa (Harry Dunham, 1934) and Venus and Adonis (Harry Dunham & J. V. D. Bucher, 1935)
NYU Libraries -- Audio in the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar Archive, 1958-2011
Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive) The Rediscovery Robert Flaherty’s Oidhche Sheanchais (A Night of Storytelling) (1935): The First Talkie in the Irish Language

4:30pm Missing Sounds, Found Fragments 
Margaret A. Compton (U of Georgia) A Mute Talkie Meets the Digital Humanities: The Rediscovery of Wedding on the Volga (Mark Schweid’s directorial debut, 1929) 35’
Arber Jashari (National Library of Kosova) Film Found, Sound Sought: The Dance of the Rufais (Kosovo, ca. 1976-80)
Viviana García Besné, Paulina Suárez-Hesketh, & Michael Ramos Araizaga (Permanencia Voluntaria Archivo Cinematográfico) Morelos Mezcla: Rescued Fragments of Mexican Cinema (1930s-70s): La Zandunga (location footage, 1938), La Rebelión de los Adolescentes trailer (1959), fragments of Bellas de Noche (1975)
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Josephine McRobbie (NCSU), Andy Uhrich (Indiana U) et al. New Sounds for Old Films about Sound, musical performance and video remix from the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive

DINNER (ON YOUR OWN)

8:00pm Helen Hill Award Screening: Sasha Waters Freyer
Laura Kissel  (USC), Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive), Jimmy Kinder (filmmaker) present the award and Kodak film prize.

Sasha Waters Freyer presents her work:

• Our Summer Made Her Light Escape (2012) 
• This Existence Is Material (2014)
• Chekhov for Children (2010) 72’ Documenting a1979 Broadway staging of Uncle Vanya by 5th and 6th graders, directed by Phillip Lopate, using never-before-screened student videos and Super 8mm films.
• All Things Are Photographable (trailer) Garry Winogrand documentary

Linda Mai Green (NYU IFA) moderator


SATURDAY, APRIL 9
9:30am   A Praise Song for Audiovisual Preservation Exchanges
Judith Opoku-Boateng (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana) & Mona Jimenez (NYU APEX) Seprewa Discoveries: Access in Action from the Nketia Archives (Seth Paris and Fidelia Serwaa Ametewee, 2015) music by Amakye Dede

10:00am Computing Frontiers
David Gibson (LOC) Alone in the Dark: The Question of Abandonware and Video Games
Robin Edgerton (independent) Computing For Fun at Bell Labs: Computing For Fun (1963) with John Robinson Pierce
Gregory Zinman (Georgia Tech) The Archival Silences of Nam June Paik’s  Etude, with Electronic Opera #1 (1969) and HTML recreation of Etude 1 (1967-68)
Andrea Callard (independent) Located for Listening: Early Computer Music by Reese Williams 

11:45am Experimental Sound in Small-Gauge Film

Walter Forsberg Sound Test Film, presented by ELMO CO., LTD. (197?) 
Tommy Aschenbach (Video and Film Solutions) Jiffy Test Films  (197?) 
Genevieve Havemeyer-King (Wildlife Conservation Society) & Pamela Vizner Oyarce (Second Run Media Preservation) Audio Reconstruction for Some Food May Be Found in the Desert (Andrea Callard, 1977)
Bill Brand (BB Optics) on Reflections (Madeline Tourtelot, 1955)
Matt Soar (Concordia U) Sound and the Standardized Film Leader: Three
Handwritten Films
EYE, Newsprint (Guy Sherwin, 1972)
 
LUNCH catered at LOC
 
1:45pm Achtung Argentina! 
Nico de Klerk, Joachim Schätz, & Katalin Teller (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society, Vienna) Colin Ross “mit ohne Sound”: Travel Lecture Films, including Achtung Australien! Achtung Asien! Das Doppelkontinent Des Ostens [The Twin Continents of the East] (Germany, 1930)
Paula Félix-Didier, Andrés Levinson, & Leandro Listorti (Museo del Cine)

• Muñequitas Porteñas (1931) reel 1 of the first Argentina talkie
• Variedades sonoras Ariel N 1: "Mosaico Criollo" (Eleuterio Iribarren, 1929)
• La reina de las ondas (Irena y Karel Dodal, 1948-49) animation
• Cómo se hace una película Argentina (Arturo Mom, 1948)

4:00pm Indie Rediscovery and African American History
Heather Sabin (Academy Film Archive) The Sound Man (1950) and The Foley Artist (ca. 1991)
Sandra Schulberg (IndieCollect) Vault Rescues

• Witch Doctor (1951) Murray Lerner, Lloyd Ritter, & Robert Young
• Anemone Me (1990) Suzan-Lori Parks & Bruce Hainlie (excerpt)
• Thanksgiving Prayer (1991) Gus Van Sant, with William Boroughs 

Charles Musser (Yale) & Walter Forsberg (Smithsonian NMAAHC) Folk Music, the Henry Wallace Campaign of ’48, and the Rediscovered Count Us In (Union Films, 1948)
Rhea L. Combs (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) Building a Collection: Films of Mahalia Jackson, Alice Coltrane, and Whitney Houston

DINNER catered at Culpeper Center, 127 S. Main Street


8:00 pm Celebrating Sounds from Everywhere: A Medley 
at the State Theatre, 305 S. Main Street

• Adam O’Callaghan (Montreal) Theremin prelude
• Caroline Martel, excerpt from Mystères des ondes (1946)
• Bill Morrison Little Orphant Annie (Selig, 1918) and Litte Orphant Annie (James Whitcomb Riley, Victor Talking Machine, 1912), with the voice of Kelli Hix (2016)Dennis Doros & Amy Heller (Milestone) Transmagnifican Dambamuality (Ronald K. Gray, 1976) 
• Devin Orgeron (NCSU) Uncle Smiley Abridged (Learning Corp. of America, 1972/2016) 
• Skip Elsheimer (AV Geeks) Let’s Make a Sandwich (Miriam Bucher, 1950)
• Rachael Stoeltje (Indiana U) & Dan Streible The Inner World of Aphasia (Edward and Naomi Feil, 1968), added to the National Film Registry in 2015.
• Jon Dieringer (EAI) David Bowie sings “Look Back in Anger,” in Nam June Paik’s Wrap Around the World (1988) 

 

Full program of the 10th Orphan Film Symposium: 4 days and nights, 75 presenters

Register for the symposium here: www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

3:00pm to 5:00pm Tour the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation

All sessions in the Packard Theater (except for the Saturday night show).

8:00 pm Movie Tones, Radiotelephones, and Tele-vision

Debut restoration of The Edison Kinetophone (1912)

Robert Anen & Ina Archer (NYU) British Actors and Actresses outtakes (Fox Movietone News, 1928)

Manu Luksch & Martin Reinhart with Dreams Rewired (Luksch, Reinhart, & Thomas Tode, 2015)  an essay film about audio-visual technologies – telephony, cinema, tele-vision --  that changed human consciousness; a montage using nearly 200 silent-era and early-sound films from archives around the world

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

9:30am About Orphans X: Sound

Mike Mashon (LOC), Dan Streible (NYU)

+ Susan Courtney (USC) The Sounds and Silences of Operation A-Bomb (1952)

10:00am Preservation Provocations for the 21st Century

Rick Prelinger (UCSC) Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: New Talking Points

Evan Meaney (USC) introduces Big_Sleep™ (Meany & Amy Szczepanski, 2015) a codec tutorial and documentary meditation on digital decay

Jonathan Farbowitz (NYU) moderator

11:30am  Paper and Sounds from The Library

The Film of Her (Bill Morrison, 1996) a cine-poem about paper films

Bill Morrison excerpts his never-released 1992 interviews with Howard Walls and Kemp Niver, curators of the Paper Print Collection preserved by the Library of Congress and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Alexis Ainsworth & Ken Weissman (LOC) premiering new 3k scans of LOC Paper Print films

Jerry Fabris (Edison National Historical Park) & George Willeman (LOC) Marrying Edison Kinetophone Cylinders and Films: Premieres of The Deaf Mute, Jack’s Joke, The Musical Blacksmiths, et al. (1913)  

Caroline Frick (UT Austin) moderator

LUNCH catered at LOC

1:30pm  Sound and Color

• Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State U) Color Film and the Coming of Sound

• Ulrich Ruedel (U of Applied Sciences, Berlin) Film Sound and Color since 1929

• Heather Heckman (U of South Carolina) Continuous Monochrome: The Problem of the Soundtrack in Chromogenic Color Printing, with test clips from 35mm prints of Carson City (1952), The Iron Mistress (1952), and The Moonlighter (1953)

3:00pm  Raw Sounds of WWII

Jeff Martin (independent) Recorded Voice of Edward W. Stewart, JZJ, 9.535MC, 11:00 - 11:38 AM CWT, Tokyo-Japan (R. P. Read, 1943): Amateur Recordings of Short-Wave Broadcasts from Japanese POW Camps

Matt Barton (LOC) U.S. Marine Corps Combat Recordings, 1943-1945

Melissa Dollman  (UNC) Fifteen Dozen Rosies: Field Research Audiotapes in the Records of The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter Project, 1974-1980

4:30pm Greg Wilsbacher (USC MIRC) Beaten by Your Own Scoop: Early Synch-Sound Newsreel, Admiral Byrd, and the Orteig Prize

            New York to Paris Flyers – outtakes (Fox News, 1927)

            Crew of the ‘America’ Speaks – outtakes (Fox Movietone News, 1927)

DINNER catered downtown

8:00 pm  Robert Gitt & Robert Heiber (Rick Chace Foundation) A Century of Sound

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

9:30am  Classical Music and “Silent-era” Cinema

Walter Damrosch and the N. Y. Symphony Orchestra in France (Fox News outtakes, 1920) USC MIRC

Walter Damrosch Visits Schenectady and Sees Picture of Sound, 1929 (Academy Film Archive)

Premier nocturne en fa # majeur de Chopin, Interprété par Victor Gille (Gaumont-Petersen-Poulsen, 1928), new restoration by Cinémathèque française  

Anke Mebold (Deutsches Filminstitut) Tonbilder from the Neumayer Collection, 1908-09: Synchronizing Discs and Films from Deutsche Bioscop and Alfred Duskes   

Stephen Bottomore (independent) The Selsior System Dance Films: [Ernest Belcher/Dorothy Edwards dancing] (Boris Sagal, 1913-14)   

Hilde D'haeyere (University College Ghent, Belgium) "Cannibals of the Deep”: Mack Sennett's The Trail of the Swordfish (1931)   

11:30am  Listening to New Histories of American Radio 

Dan Einstein & Mark Quigley (UCLA Film & Television Archive) Preserving Rediscovered Transcription Disks of The Goldbergs: Episode #1297 [Sammy Goes Into The Army] (CBS, 1942)

Rachel Curtis & Alan Gevinson (LOC) The American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Nat Hentoff's The Evolution of Jazz (NERN, 1953)

Josh Shepperd (Catholic U) The Radio Preservation Task Force as National Research Project

Wendy Shay (Smithsonian NMAH) Hills Bros. Tune of the Day (1934)

Joseph Gallucci (Pacifica Radio Archives) American Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982

Stephanie Sapienza (U of Maryland MITH) National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1952-1970

Shawn VanCour (NYU) moderator 

LUNCH catered

2:15pm Scoring Documentaries

Julie Brown (U of London) The Original Atmospheric Presentations of The Epic of Everest (1924): Orchestral Score and Tibetan Music   

Blake McDowell (Smithsonian NMAAHC) Paul Bowles Film Scores: Bride of Samoa (Harry Dunham, 1934) and Venus and Adonis (Harry Dunham & J. V. D. Bucher, 1935)  

NYU Libraries Audio in the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar Archive, 1958-2011

Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive) The Rediscovery Robert Flaherty’s Oidhche Sheanchais (A Night of Storytelling) (1935): The First Talkie in the Irish Language

Julie Hubbert (USC) moderator 

4:30pm Missing Sounds, Found Fragments

Margaret A. Compton (U of Georgia) A Mute Talkie Meets the Digital Humanities: The Rediscovery of Wedding on the Volga (Mark Schweid’s directorial debut, 1929)  35’

Arber Jashari (National Library of Kosova) Film Found, Sound Sought: The Dance of the Rufais  (Kosovo, ca. 1976-80)

Viviana García Besné, Paulina Suárez-Hesketh, & Michael Ramos Araizaga (Permanencia Voluntaria Archivo Cinematográfico) Morelos Mezcla: Rescued Fragments of Mexican Cinema (1930s-70s): La Zandunga (location footage, 1938), La Rebelión de los Adolescentes trailer (1959), fragments of Bellas de Noche (1975)

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Josephine McRobbie (NCSU), Andy Uhrich (Indiana U) et al. New Sounds for Old Films about Sound, musical performance and video remix from the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive

DINNER (on your own)

8:00pm Helen Hill Award Screening: Sasha Waters Freyer

Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive), Jimmy Kinder (filmmaker) and Susan Courtney (USC) present the award and Kodak film prize.

Sasha Waters Freyer presents her work:

All Things Are Photographable (trailer) Garry Winogrand documentary

You Can See the Sun in Late December  (2010)  6’ 

Our Summer Made Her Light Escape (2012) 4’

Chekhov for Children (2010) 72’ Documenting a1979 Broadway staging of Uncle Vanya by 5th and 6th graders, directed by Phillip Lopate, using never-before-screened student videos and Super 8mm films.

Linda Mai Green (NYU IFA)

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

9:30am   A Praise Song for Audiovisual Preservation Exchanges

Judith Opoku-Boateng (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana) & Mona Jimenez (NYU APEX) Seprewa Discoveries: Access in Action (Seth Paris and Fidelia Serwaa Ametewee, 2015)

10:00am Computing Frontiers

David Gibson (LOC) Alone in the Dark: The Question of Abandonware and Video Games

Robin Edgerton (independent) Computing For Fun at Bell Labs: Computing For Fun (1963) with John Robinson Pierce

Gregory Zinman (Georgia Tech) The Archival Silences of Nam June Paik’s Etude, with Electronic Opera #1 (1969) and HTML recreation of Etude 1 (1967-68)

Andrea Callard (independent) Located for Listening: Early Computer Music by Reese Williams

11:45am Experimental Sound in Small-Gauge Film

Genevieve Havemeyer-King (Wildlife Conservation Society) & Pamela Vizner Oyarce (Second Run Media Preservation) Audio Reconstruction for Some Food May Be Found in the Desert (Andrea Callard, 1977)

Bill Brand (BB Optics) on Reflections (Madeline Tourtelot, 1955)

Matt Soar (Concordia U) Sound and the Standardized Film Leader: Three
Handwritten Films

EYE, Newsprint (Guy Sherwin, 1972) 5’

LUNCH catered at LOC

1:45pm Achtung Argentina!

Nico de Klerk, Joachim Schätz, & Katalin Teller (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society, Vienna) Colin Ross “mit ohne Sound”: Travel Lecture Films, including Achtung Australien! Achtung Asien! Das Doppelkontinent Des Ostens [The Twin Continents of the East] (Germany, 1930)

Paula Félix-Didier, Andrés Levinson, & Leandro Listorti (Museo del Cine)  

            * Muñequitas Porteñas (1931)  reel 1 of the first Argentina talkie

            * Variedades sonoras Ariel N 1: "Mosaico Criollo" (Eleuterio Iribarren, 1929)

            * La reina de las ondas (Irena y Karel Dodal, 1948-49) animation

            * Cómo se hace una película Argentina (Arturo Mom, 1948)

4:00pm  Indie Rediscovery and African American History

Heather Sabin (Academy Film Archive) The Sound Man (1950) and The Foley Artist (ca. 1991)

Sandra Schulberg (IndieCollect) Vault Rescues

            * Witch Doctor (1951) Murray Lerner, Lloyd Ritter, & Robert Young

            * excerpt from Anemone Me (1990) Suzan-Lori Parks & Bruce Hainlie

            * Thanksgiving Prayer (1991) Gus Van Sant, with William Boroughs   

Charles Musser (Yale) & Walter Forsberg (Smithsonian NMAAHC) Folk Music, the Henry Wallace Campaign of ’48, and the Rediscovered Count Us In (Union Films, 1948)

Rhea L. Combs (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) Building a Collection: Films of Mahalia Jackson, Alice Coltrane, and Whitney Houston

DINNER catered (Culpeper Center, 127 S. Main St.)

8:00 pm Celebrating Sounds from Everywhere: A Medley  at the State Theatre of Culpeper

Adam O’Callaghan (Montreal)  Theremin prelude  

Caroline Martel, excerpt from Mystères des ondes (1946) 

Tommy Aschenbach (Video and Film Solutions) Jiffy Test Films    

Walter Forsberg, Elmo Magnetic Sound Super 8 Projection Test Film blowup

Bill Morrison Little Orphant Annie (Selig, 1918) and Litte Orphant Annie (Victor Talking Machine, 1912), with the voice of Kelli Hix (2016)

Dennis Doros & Amy Heller (Milestone) Transmagnifican Dambamuality (Ronald K. Gray, 1976) 

Skip Elsheimer (AV Geeks) Let’s Make a Sandwich (Miriam Bucher, 1950)

Devin Orgeron (NCSU) Uncle Smiley Goes to _______ (1970s environmental educational) 

Rachael Stoeltje (Indiana U) and Dan Streible The Inner World of Aphasia (Edward and Naomi Feil, 1968), added to the National Film Registry 2015.

NB: Changes to the program order may be made.