12-page program booklet for the 6th Orphan Film Symposium, The State, New York University, Cantor Film Center, March 26-29, 2006. 

Wednesday, March 26

Welcome to the Orphan Film Symposium, Dan Streible (NYU)

Orphans 6 trailer by Bill Morrison (NYC)

Anywhere . . . A Tribute to Artist-Activist Helen Hill

·  "What is an orphan film?" Interview outtake of HH from Orphan Ist. (2006, Lauren Heath, Erin Curtis, Mike Johns)

·  Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century (2001, Helen Hill)

·  Remarks by John Canemaker (NYU Animation Program)

·  Rain Dance (1990/2007, Helen Hill) introduced by Bill Brand (BB Optics), Lauren Sorensen (Canyon Cinema), Sarah Resnick (Todo Mundo), Loni Shibuyama (ONE, National Gay and Lesbian Archives)

·  Helen La Belle (1957, Lotte Reiniger) introduced by Tom De Smet (Haghefilm)

·  Vessel (1992, Helen Hill)

·  Phil’s Film Farm (2002, John Porter) introduced by John Porter (Toronto)

·  Helen Hill Award recipients Naomi Uman and Jimmy Kinder -- presenters: Susan Courtney & Laura Kissel (U of South Carolina)

·  Removed (1999, Naomi Uman)

·  Grandfather (2008, Jimmy Kinder)

·  Mouseholes (1999, Helen Hill) introduced by Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive)

·  Termite Light (2003, Hill/Egan) & Cleveland Street Gap (2006, Hill/Egan) introduced byCourtney Egan (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts)

·  [Home Movie Day New Orleans] (2006, Kelli Shay Hicks) autoharp by Kelli Hix (Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)

·  Pistol Pete & Rayna Dae sing "Emma Goldman" (Hill/Gailiunas) and "My Pink Bike" (Hill)

·  [Helen Hill’s home movies] (ca. 2002-05) introduced by Kara Van Malssen (NYU) & Dwight Swanson (Center for Home Movies)
Think of Me First as a Person (1960-75, Dwight Core, Sr. & George Ingmire) introduced by George Ingmire (Mi Abuelo Productions)

·  Quacks (1981) introduced by Kevin & Becky Lewis (Columbia, SC)

·  Scratch and Crow(1995, Helen Hill)

·  + surprise finale The House of Sweet Magic (1981)
All preservation and transfer work by Colorlab.

Thursday, March 27

Welcome to Orphans 6
Richard Allen and Dan Streible (NYU Cinema Studies)

The State of State AV Archives
The Invisible Men (Les Invisibles, Pathé, 1906) new 35mm print from NFSA Australia, Corricks Collection, piano by Dennis James
Paolo Cherchi Usai (National Film and Sound Archive, Australia) Keynote address
+ Stages Illustrating Development of Human Erect Posture (ca. 1925)

The Archive: Between the State and the Independent Filmmaker
Tan Bee Thiam (Asian Film Archive) Singapore’s Independent Film Pioneer: Rajendra Gour and the restoration of A Labour of Love (1976)
Lucy Smee (Asian Film Archive/BBC) Political Filmmaking in Singapore: Preserving the Banned Videos of Martyn See
Zhang Zhen (NYU) chair

"The Free and Independent Republic of Washington Square"
Leah Churner & Kathleen Maguire (NYU MIAP) introduce [Washington Square Park] (1966, Bob Parent)

NYU Surveillance Film of 3/6/68 Dow Chemical Demonstration (1968)

Dan Drasin (filmaker) introducing his film Sunday (1961)
preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and The Film Foundation 

Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives) & Steven Villereal (NYU MIAP) A Different Kind of Movie: Gordon Hitchens interviews Emile de Antonio (1967)
Ross Lipman (UCLA) Order, Disorder, and Point of Order! (The Cropping of the Spectacle)

Camera News, Inc. & the Newsreel Collectives
Jonathan Kahana (NYU) on prison films, Attica, and Teach Our Children 
Pamela Jean Smith (Pacific Film Archive) the PFA Newsreel Collection
SCREENING: premire of preservation by CinemaLab, Teach Our Children (1972, [Christine Choy & Susan Robeson])
Eric Breitbart (New York) on army film and The Army Film 
SCREENING: The Army Film (1969, New York Newsreel)
+ Q&A

Seven Thousand Films for Government and Business
Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Library and Archives) Jam Handy and His Organization

Screening: The Border
Mark G. Cooper (U of South Carolina) and Mike Mashon (Library of Congress) introduce If My Country Should Call (1916), music by Dennis James, narration by Karen Young 

Gregorio Rocha (Archivia Films, Mexico City) with Viajepor el sureste (1936), Charles Lindbergh, and Jack Dempsey
Kim Tomadjoglou (AFI) introduces the restoration of La Venganza de Pancho Villa (ca. 1930-34, Felix & Edmundo Padilla)

Friday, March 28

Early U.S. Government Films
Jennifer Zwarich (NYU) The Bureaucratic Activist: Federal Filmmakers and the Struggle for Social Change in "Return to Normalcy America "
Charles Grimm (independent researcher) on Department of Agriculture films
Richard Allen (NYU) moderator

Political Campaigns, Counterpropaganda Campaigns
Craig Breaden (U of Georgia) campaign ads for Gov. Carl Sanders (1969-70, Albert & David Maysles)
+ comments by surprise guest Al Maysles (filmmaker)
Juana Suárez (U of Kentucky) & Ramiro Arbeláez (U del Valle, Cali, Colombia) introduce Garras de oro (The Dawn of Justice / Alborada de Justicia, 1926)

International Communications
Jennifer Horne (Catholic U) U.S. Information Agency films under George Stevens, Jr.
SCREENING: James Blue’s Alliance for Progress trilogy (1963, USIA): A Letter from Colombia, Evil Wind Out, & The School at Rincon Santo
Zoë Druick (Simon Fraser U) Stories of International Development: UNESCO’s World Without End (1953, Basil Wright and Paul Rotha)
Robert Sklar (NYU) moderator

Extended Family Films from the Dutch East Indies
Elvira Pouw (for Julia Noordegraaf) (U of Amsterdam) The Extended Family Film, De bedienden van de familie Sanders (192?)
Nico de Klerk (Nederlands Filmmuseum) "Treated Like a King: Private Footage from the Dutch East Indies" Kwee compilation #2 (ca. 1929)

Strange Bedfellows
Mark J. Williams (Dartmouth) presents "Ronald Reagan presents The Orchid Award" (1953, ABC-TV)

Mark Quigley & Dan Einstein (UCLA) A Meeting of Church and State: Television’s Paulist Twilight Zone: Insight (1963-1980) SCREENING: "Locusts Have No King" (1965)

SCREENING: The Country
Melinda Stone (USF/StoneLake Farm) & Sam Sharkey (howtohomestead.org) live via iChat video from San Francisco, with a homemade sing-along and natural anthem "Everyone Needs a Hoe"
Naomi Uman (Helen Hill Award recipient) with her work-in-progress Kalendar (shot in the Ukraine, 2007-08)
Devin Orgeron (NCSU) & George Stoney (filmmaker) introduce Tar Heel Family (1951)
Naomi Uman con Leche (1998)

Saturday, March 29

New Frontiers in Digitizing Legacy Videotapes
Ann Butler and Brent Phillips (Fales Library), Sarah Ziebell (Bobst Library) and Jim Lindner (SAMMA Systems)
Digitizing the [U-matic] Downtown Collection: 1970s experimental video

"Orphan Works": Law, Policy, and the Moving Image
Howard Besser (NYU MIAP), Peter Decherney (U of Pennsylvania), Rina Elster Pantalony (Dept of Justice, Canada;
NYU MIAP) discussion

for the real orphans . . .
George Willeman (Library of Congress) Salvaging The Passaic Textile Strike (1926)
Gail Malmgreen (Tamiment Library) on the Jewish Labor Committee’s Nos maisons d’enfants (1949, France)

Left Films Left Behind
Charles Musser (Yale) Paul Robeson, Vito Marcantonio, and People’s Congressman (1948, Union Films)
Cynthia Young (International Center of Photography) Inside the "Mexican suitcase": Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and Chim
Román Gubern (Filmoteca Española) on El Laya Films
Noticiario de Laya unid. footage (ca. 1937)
Paula Félix-Didier (Museo del Cine) introduces Noticiario de Laya No. 3 (1937)
Steven Marsh (U of South Carolina) respondent

Watching Human Rights
Laura Kissel (U of South Carolina) Representations of Human Disability in Scientific and Educational Films
Jason Livingston (Ithaca College) Onondagas vs. NYS (Philip Mallory Jones and the Ithaca Video Project, 1972)
Grace Lile (Witness Media Archive) Amateur video in human rights advocacy
Mona Jimenez (NYU MIAP) chair

Army Films: Pro & Amateur
Bill Birch (834th Signal Service Photographic Detachment) and Greg Wilsbacher (U of South Carolina) Why We Film: Signal Corps
Operations and WWII Newsreels
Marsha Orgeron (NCSU) Orphans of the War: The Unofficial Record of Concentration Camps after V-E Day
Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive) introduces the newly-preserved Sam Fuller film V-E+1 May 9, 1945
Christa Lang Fuller (Chrisam Films, Inc.) Sam’s camera

SCREENING: A Celebratory Post-State Finale

Laura Rooney (AMIA) opening remarks

Dan Streible Ro-Revus Talks about Worms (1971, USC/SCETV)

Skip Elsheimer (AV Geeks) Two Hundred (1976, USIA)

JoAnne Stober (Library and Archives Canada) Friendly Interchange (1961, Alma Duncan and Audrey McLaren)

Julie Hubbert (U of South Carolina) Music for the Silent Newsreels (1930, Fox Movietone News)

Yvonne Ng & Lisa Fehsenfeld (NYU MIAP) The Story of Hackettstown (1933) and Romance and Red Bank (1934)

Joseph Clark (Brown U) & Tom Regal (Universal Studios) Sound from the Radio City Music Hall premiere of Peace, By Adolph Hitler (1941, March of Time), courtesy of HBO Archives

Martha Kelly (KY/NY) Our Day (1938, Wallace Kelly)

Daniela Currò (Haghefilm) Encore: restoration of Think of Me First as a Person(1960-75)

Peggy Ahwesh(Bard College) Beirut Outtakes (2007, Ms. Ahwesh)

BENEDICTIONS
Ground Z (2005, two silent camera rolls by Jem Cohen)
Tunnel of Love (1996, Helen Hill)

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