Preliminary Schedule for
"Orphans of the Storm"
Thursday, September 23rd
9-11 a.m. Registration
in the Clarion Hotel lobby
Buses depart for Newsfilm
Library at 9:00 and 10:00
(Optional walking tour
of campus departs hotel at 10:00)
9-11:15 Newsfilm Library
Open House
Meet the staff of the university's
Film Library. Tour the campus headquarters for the Newsfilm archive.
See Movietone preservation as it happens. Sample some coffee and
clips.
Buses depart for lunch (11:00-11:15)
Lunch served in The
Campus Room, 1st floor of Capstone House (11:30-12:45)
1-3:15 Technological
Frontiers of Film Preservation: A Colloquium
BA Building, 8th floor auditorium
Karen Lund, the National Digital
Library, "Early Cinema on the Library of
Congress
Web Sites"
Robert Heiber, Chace Productions,
"Sound Preservation and Restoration
in the Digital
Age"
Tom Benjamin, Iron Mountain
Film and Sound Archives,
"Environment Trends for Motion Picture Preservation"
Ken Weissman, Library of Congress
Motion Picture Conservatoin Center,
moderator
Coffee Break
Informal viewings of Movietone
outtakes available during breaks
3:30-5:30 What Is
an ‘Orphan Film’?
Suzanne Lee, "Preserving
Orphan Films: Public Policy in Practice"
Paolo Cherchi-Usai, "What
Is an Orphan Film? Definition, Rationale, and
Controversy"
Gregory Lukow,
"The Politics of ‘Orphanage’: The Rise and Impact of the
'Orphan Film' Metaphor on Contemporary Preservation Practice"
Buses depart for Clarion
Hotel. (5:30-5:45)
Buses depart hotel for
dinner and a movie. (6:30-6:45)
7:00 Dinner Reception
at the Columbia Museum of Art (Main & Hampton)
SCREENING: "Raiders
of the Lost Archive"
Richard Prelinger, "More Revelations
from the Prelinger Archives"
&
Joe Lauro, "Lost Treasures of American Music. . . on Film"
Buses depart for Clarion
Hotel. (10:00-10:30)
Friday, September 24th
Russell House Theater
Buses depart Clarion Hotel
for Russell House. (8:15-8:30)
SCREENING: The
USC Newsfilm Library's 1998 National Film Preservation Foundation grant
recipient: Movietone outtakes of a 1930 reunion of Civil War veterans
(8m). Introducted by Benjamin Singleton and Suzanne Lee.
Welcome from Dr. John Palms,
USC President
9-10:30 Newsreel Preservation
Raymond Fielding, "History
and Preservation of Newsfilm"
William T. Murphy, "The Unhappy
State of American Newsreel Preservation"
Sarah Meyerson, "The News
Archives of TV Networks" and moderator
Coffee break and Movietone
clips.
10:45-12:15 Films
without Owners
Francis Poole, "Five
Reasons to Care about Films Orphaned in Educational
Collections"
Robert Haller, "Ed Emshwiller’s
Project
Apollo (1968, USIA)"
Jan-Christopher Horak, "Orphaned
in Old Age? Hollywood Studio Silents at
Universal and Elsewhere"
Lunch served in Preston
Hall (Russell House)
Informal video screening:
Project Apollo in the theater during lunch (12:30-1:15)
1:30-3:00 Experimental
Cinema
Callie Angell, "Caught in
the Act: Evidence from the Warhol Films."
Jon Gartenberg, "Rude Awakening:
Restoring the Legacy of Experimental
Filmmaker Warren Sonbert"
Donald Crafton, "The Found
Footage in Bruce Conner’s A Movie"
Coffee break and Movietone
clips.
3:15-4:45 Rediscovering
Oscar Micheaux
Charlene Regester, "The Oscar
Micheaux Production Company"
Charles Musser, "Preserving
Symbol
of the Unconquered"
Jacqueline Stewart, "Silent
Cinema's Stepchildren: Reconstructing Early Black
Spectatorship"
Steven Higgins (MoMA), moderator
Snack break and Movietone
clips.
5:00 SCREENINGS:
"Rescued from the Low Countries"
Oscar Micheaux's
The Symbol
of the Unconquered (1920)
restoration-in-progress, from
the Museum of Modern Art
with Turner/TCM/Warner Bros.
with piano accompaniment by
Don Shabkie
Nico de Klerk
(Netherlands
Filmmuseum)
"Programming
the Theatrical Short, 1935-40"
Buses depart for Clarion
Hotel. (7:15-7:30)
7:30 Dinner
reception at the Clarion.
Saturday, September 25th
Russell House Theater
Buses depart Clarion Hotel
for Russell House. (8:15-8:30)
8:45 SCREENING:
The
Two Orphans (Selig Company, 1911)
Restored 35mm print, courtesy
of Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater
Research/UCLA Film and Television Archive and American
Film Institute
9:00-10:30 Early Cinema
Jennifer M. Bean, "Frozen
in Time: Looking at the Dawson City Archive
Collection, 1913-1919"
Steven Higgins, "The Biograph
Collections"
Yuri Tsivian, "Early Russian
Films and the Tyranny of Modernity"
Coffee break and Newsfilm
clips
10:45-12:30 Television
and Video Preservation
Linda Tadic, "Archiving Local
TV Stations"
Steve Davidson, "Local Television
News Archives at the 50th Anniversary of
TV"
Mike Mashon, "Television and
Video Preservation at the Library of Congress"
William T. Murphy, respondent
Gregory Lukow, moderator
Lunch served in Preston
Hall (Russell House)
1:45-3:15 "Low" and
Local
Eric Schaefer, "Saving Rubbish:
The High Priority of Preserving Low Films"
Tom Whiteside,
"Up for Adoption? The Adaptability and Use of ‘Movies of
Local People and Other Orphan Films"
Mark Miller, "'Come to North
Dakota!' Community-Sponsored Motion
Pictures, 1916-1920"
Stephen Parr (San Francisco
Media Archive/Oddball Film & Video), moderator
Coffee break and Newsfilm
clips
3:30-5:30 Contemporary
Filmmakers Use Orphan Films
Carolyn Faber (WPA Film Library),
Iota
(1998), moderator
Bill Morrison,
The Film
of Her (1996)
Alan Berliner,
City Edition
(1980)
Péter Forgács,
The
Danube Express (1998)
Buses depart for Clarion.
(5:30-5:45)
Buses depart for dinner.
(6:15-6:45)
6:30-8:00 Wrap Party
& Dinner Reception at the Top of Carolina, Capstone
House
Buses depart for Russell
House screening. (7:45-8:00)
8:15 SCREENING:
"A Home for Home Movies"
Alan Berliner,
excerpts from Family Album and Nobody's
Business
Péter
Forgács,
The Maelstrom (A Video Opera)
Buses return to Clarion
Hotel. (10:30-11)
