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THURSDAY •  APRIL 12, 2012

WELCOME to APC BUILDING 13

Opening remarks by David Schwartz (Museum of the Moving Image) and Richard Allen (NYU)
Dan Streible Made to Persuade: The Moving Pictures in Our Heads
Barbara Miller (Moving Image, Collection Curator) The U.S. Army's Movie Studio in Astoria: excerpt from Use of Training Films (1943)


OTHER ORPHANS: BASTARDS, FUGITIVES, and TEST-TUBE BABIES
Anna McCarthy (author, The Citizen Machine) Pushing on the Analogy
Hadi Gharabaghi (NYU) Bastard or Orphan? The USIS's News of Iran (1954)
Tina Campt (Barnard College) Orphan Photos, Fugitive Images: Family Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe

AD FILMS for THEATERS, TELEVISION, and the WEB
Annette Groschke (Deutsche Kinemathek) Charles Wilp's Sexy-mini-super-flower-pop-op Afri-cola Campaign, 1968-1974



Say: "I like Afri-cola." Audio of Charles Wilp directing unidentified actress.


German TV commercial
(1968) with English subtitles

Charles Wilp Filmmaterial im Archiv der Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek

(click for PDF
prepared by Annette Groschke)



Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz image database
for Wilp photo-portraits of artists, celebrities, and West German politicians. (copyright bpk / Charles Wilp)



Leenke Ripmeester (EYE Film Institute Netherlands) Archiving Joop Geesink’s Dollywood Advertising Films


LEFT: De Nachtmerrie (The Nightmare, 1947) Long-form ad for Philips electric shaver. RT: 1:45.

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RIGHT: Geesink ad for Vredestein tires (1961), with actor Aart Brouwer; no dolls. RT: 0:25.


Julia Noordegraaf (U of Amsterdam) Advertising Film: Researching an Unstable Genre




Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks) Digitizing Duke U's AdViews: Post's Sugar Crisp Campaign

Devin Orgeron (NC State U) Sugar Bear Sells Sugar Crisp, 1949 to present

p.s.

Walter Forsberg (NYU Libraries) Redating: Let’s All Go to the Lobby (195?)

     

      See also 35mmSnipes.tumblr.com.



MAKING FILMS at AT&T/BELL LABS, 1967-1980

Nell Cox, director of Operator, talks with with David Schwartz.

Operator (Nell Cox, 1969) cinematographer Richard Leacock. RT: 15:40.
Online and 16mm versions courtesy of the AT&T Tech Channel and the AT&T Archives and History Center. (Our thanks to Robin Edgerton.)

          Cox and Leacock shooting Operator. (Photo from Nell Cox.)

Nell Cox later used footage from Operator in her AT&T sponsored film It's All in a Day's Work (1972).



Walter Forsberg on computer animation pioneers, 1960-69
The Artist and the Computer (AT&T, 1976) RT: 11:15


Bill Brand Touch Tone Phone Film (1973) 16mm, RT: 8:00
Katy Martin Dot Squared (1977) RT: 2:30
Lillian Schwartz films screened in 16mm:
Pixillation (1970), UFOs and Olympiad (1971), Enigma (1972), Papillons (1973)

Walter talks with Lillian. + Q&A.

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See also:
  • Walter Forsberg, "Lillian Schwartz Sees in Four-Dimensions," Incite (Journal of Experimental Media) no. 3 (Fall 2011).
  • The Lillian Feldman Schwartz Collection, A Guide and Inventory, Ohio State University Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts.
  • Lillian.com.
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    COMMERCE

    Martin L. Johnson (UNC) Booster Films and the Paragon Feature Film Company:
    Past and Present in the Cradle of Dixie (Montgomery, 1914)
    The Lumberjack (Wausau, 1914), and
    The Blissveldt Romance (Grand Rapids, 1915)
    Yvonne Zimmermann (U of Zurich) Hans Richter's Sponsored Films:
    Die Börse als Barometer der Wirtschaftslage [The Stock Exchange]
    (Swiss Exchange Zurich, 1939) restored by the Swiss Film Archive
    Richter's hand-marked script for his English-language edition of Die Börse, shortened and retitled The Stock Exchange. (@MoMA)

    Dave Davidson (City College of New York) Hans Richter at the CCNY Institute of Film Techniques:
    It's Up to You (Leo Seltzer, Office of Price Administration, 1944)
    + Hans Richter: Everything Turns -- Everything Revolves (excerpt from a Davidson documentary in progress)

    Candid photos taken at dinner (QuickTime slideshow, si., 9 mins.)



    EVENING SCREENINGS -- The Helen Hill Awards (content forthcoming. . . .)