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Summary:

"The Orphan Film Symposium is a biennial gathering of scholars, archivists, media artists, curators, preservationists, librarians, collectors, distributors, documentarians, students, researchers, musicians, and others devoted to saving, studying, and screening all manner of neglected moving image artifacts. Since 1999, the enterprise has grown into a year-round research and preservation of an eclectic array of rediscovered films and videos. This DVD sampler of orphan films was produced exclusively for those participating in the 7th Orphan Film Symposium [on April 7-10], 2010. The eleven titles come from the libraries of the two institutions that have hosted and organized Orphans 1 through 7, the University of South Carolina and New York University. They represent some of the many categories of images that fall under the rubric of 'orphan film': newsreels, outtakes, sponsored films, documentary fragments, silent and public domain works, educational and advocacy films, raw footage, appropriated video, and home movies."--Container.

Table of Contents:

• Passaic textile strike, reel 5 (International Workers Aid, 1926) (13 min.)
• Jenkins Orphanage Band (Fox Movietone News, 1928) (5 min., excerpt)
• World's yougest acrobat (Hearst Metrotone/Fox Movietone, 1929) (1.5 min., 5 min. outtakes)
• Tales from Tamiment (Louis W. Kellman, ca. 1932) (27 min.)
• Berlin Olympics home movies (unknown, 1936) (11 min., edited excerpt)
• With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (Henri Cartier-Bresson with Herbert Kline, 1938) (21 min.)
• NYU surveillance film of Dow Chemical demonstration (NYU Campus Security, 1968) (5 min., edited excerpt)
• Ro-Revus talks about worms (South Carolina ETV, 1971) (7 min.)
• Footage from the NYC Downtown scene (Amos Poe, ca. 1978) (13 min., edited excerpt)
• let's just kiss + say goodbye (Robert Blanchon, 1995) (9 min.)
• Homage to H. Lee Waters (Bill Brand and Julia Nicoll, 2004) (12.5 min.).

Contributors:

Elnabli, Stefan , producer, commentator

Forsberg, Walter , producer

Volk, Jonah , producer

Sosin, Donald , composer

Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004 , director

Kline, Herbert , director

Nicoll, Julia , director

Waters, H. Lee , director

Brand, Bill , director, commentator

Poe, Amos , director

Blanchon, Robert, 1965-1999 , director

Bowie, Joe , commentator

Salas Iñigo, Juan , commentator

Streible, Dan , commentator

New York University > Libraries

University of South Carolina > Libraries

Colorlab (Firm)

Tisch School of the Arts > Department of Cinema Studies

Meetings:

Orphan Film Symposium (7th : 2010 : New York, N.Y.)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Intertitled in English.
In English.

Subjects:

United States — Social conditions — 20th century

Motion picture film — Preservation — United States

Silent films — Conservation and restoration — United States

1900-1999

Motion picture film — Preservation

Motion picture film

Silent films

Conservation and restoration

Social conditions

United States

Genres:

Nonfiction films

Historical films

Documentary films

Biographical films

Short films

Silent films

Film excerpts

Outtakes

System Details:

DVD; NTSC, all regions.

Performers:

Commentaries, Joe Bowie, Bill Brand, Stephan Elnabli, Juan Salas, Dan Streible.

Production Credits:

Executive producers: Dan Streible, Alice Moscoso ; musical scores for DVD, Doonald Sosin.

General Notes:

Originally issued as a limited-edition DVD on occasion of the 7th Orphan Film Symposium, April 7 - 10, 2010, at the School of Visual Arts Theatre, New York University.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound and silent, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

ORP DVD

OCLC Numbers:

654779464