8th Orphan Film Symposium: Made To Persuade
Thursday, April 12, 2012 (Part 1)
Museum of the Moving Image
WELCOME TO APC BUILDING 13
• David Schwartz (MMI, Chief Curator) and Richard Allen (NYU Cinemat Studies) Opening remarks
• Dan Streible (NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation) Made to Persuade: The Moving Pictures in Our Heads
• Barbara Miller (MMI, Collection Curator) The U.S. Army's Movie Studio in Astoria
OTHER ORPHANS: BASTARDS, FUGITIVES, and TEST-TUBE BABIES
• Anna McCarthy (author, "The Citizen Machine") Pushing on the Analogy
• Hadi Gharabhagi (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