7th Orphan Film Symposium

Orphans 7

The 7th Orphan Film Symposium: Moving Pictures Around the World, April 7 - 10, 2010

Saturday, April 10

CITY PROMOTION AND ADVERTISING FILMS
Michael Cowan (McGill U) Introduces Die Entdeckung Wiens am Nordpol [The Discovery of Vienna at the Northpole] (Peter Eng, 1923)
Elaine Brennan, piano
Karin Fest (Austrian Film Museum) introduces Ein Film vom Wäschewaschen [A Film on Doing One’s Laundry] (Rudi Mayer, 1933)
Michael Loebenstein (Film.Stadt.Wien) Wien 1963 (Schönbrunn Film, 1963)
Julia Noordegraaf (U of Amsterdam) Promote-Your-Own-City Films: [Bergen Film] (1912) and My City (Raymond M. Kristiansen, 2004)
Nico de Klerk (Eye Film Institute Netherlands) Fly-to-Another-City Films, New Horizons: Argentina (Pan American World Airways, 196?)

SEGREGATED SPACE: THE PROBLEM OF THE COLOR LINE
Leah Kerr and Trisha Lendo (UCLA) Preserving Stereotypes: Films in the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum, Kilroy ~~Was~~ Is Here (Bud Pollard, 1946)
Carol Radovich (Rockefeller Archive Center) introduces One Tenth of Our Nation (American Film Center, 1940)
Craig Kridel (USC) The Making of One Tenth: Difficulties Portraying the Progress and Problems of Black Education
Julie Hubbert (USC) Roy Harris and the Musical Score for One Tenth of Our Nation
INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES
Greg Wilsbacher (USC MIRC) Spain Celebrates Her New Freedom (Fox Movietone/Hearst Metrotone, 1931)
Alice Moscoso (NYU Libraries) about the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, Tamiment Library
Juan Salas (NYU Performance Studies) Henri Cartier-Bresson’s First Film: With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1938) preservation by Cineric
REORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
Terri Francis (Yale) The Jamaica Film Unit’s Parables, 1951-1957
Martha Wallner (Xchange TV) Latin American Video Archives: LAVA Nicaragua
Aquí en esta esquina (1984, Sistema Sandinista de Televisión) and Cabildo de Mujeres(ca. 1986) preservation by The MediaPreserve
ALL OVER THE MAP
Heidi Rae Cooley (USC) The Augustas (1957-58, Scott Nixon)
Natalia Fidelholtz (Storycorps) on the Elsaesser home movies
Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam/Yale) Islands of Media-Memory and Natural Remains: Pathways to a Berlin Cine-Chronicle
CZECH PRINTS AND SAFETY FILM
Jirí Hornícek (Národní Filmový Archiv) Czech Amateur Films: The Soldier's Story (1934) and [The First Hours of the Occupation] (1968)
Marsha Orgeron & Devin Orgeron (NCSU Prague Institute) introduce the safety film Nevíme dne [We Don’t Know the Day...] (Bohumil Vošahlík, 1946)

AN OTHER WORLD COUNCIL
Sandra Lea Gibson (MIAP) introduces filmmaker Elaine Summers and Another Pilgrim (World Council of Churches, 1968), newly preserved by BB Optics and NYU MIAP students, with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation
AROUND THE WORLD TIME TRAVEL DIARY
Walter Forsberg (NYU MIAP) [Iraqi Television and Radio building damage] (2003) Super 8 transfer by Bitworks Inc.
Martina Roepke (Utrecht U) Ernemann Heimkino, 17.5mm: Paris, Babies, Bathing, Sudanese, and Einstellung Sr. Königl. Hoheit des Kronprinzen Georg Von Sachsen in die Armee am 15. Januar 1905 (ca. 1904-07)
Gustav Deutsch & Hanna Schimek Eros Exotica: On the notion and staging of the exotic and foreign in commercials, newsreels, fiction films, documentaries, and erotic films from the first four decades of cinematography (2010)
Rick Prelinger [A Trip Down Market Street] (1906), soundtrack by Agatha Kasprzyk & Rafaël Leloup (NYU Steinhardt, Film Scoring Program)
George Willeman The Passaic Textile Strike, reel 5 (International Workers Aid, 1926)
Bill Brand Casabó family films (Uruguay, ca. 1926-31), courtesy of Cristina Casabó
Stefan Drößler Tönende Handschrift: das Wunder des gezeichneten Tones (Rudolf Pfenninger, 1932)
Ángela López Ruiz (Fundación de Arte Contemporaneo, Uruguay), translator Paulina Suarez-Hesketh Color (Lidia García Millán, 1955)
Esther B. Robinson's preservation of Henry Haircut (Danny Williams, 1965), preservation by Colorlab
Andrew Lampert, [March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom] (Ed Emshwiller, August 28, 1963)
Stefan Elnabli (NYU MIAP) Homemade TV, “Self-Help Productions” (Portable Channel, 1973) preservation by the Standby Program
Stephen Parr (Oddball Film + Video) Chuck & Vince: Wedding of the Year, April 8, 1978 (thanks, Video Transfer Center, San Francisco)
Peggy Ahwesh introduces her film, The Third Body (2010)
Bill Morrison narrates The Around the World Travel Diary of Mr. and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg and James H. Becker (1927)
and, benediction, “The Ascension,” from The Life of Christ (Pathé, 1908)

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