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CFP: Call for Proposals to present at the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium, "Crisis and Community,"
April 8-11, 2026, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...
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It’s translated as SHACKLED BY FILM.

A fragment survives. A dancer depicted on a poster comes alive and takes up with an artist. (Pygmalion) youtu.be/QB3PEQ-KRLo?...
Закованная фильмой (фрагмент) 1918 / Shackled by Film (fragment)
YouTube video by History Club
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1916 Griffith. 1918 Mayakovsky & Brik.
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The Skladanowsky 54mm film projector of 1895 use brass grommets to secure the sprocket holes (?).

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Ohio State University + film preservation.

Reminder that proposals for the 2026 NYU Orphan Film Symposium in Columbus (April 8-11) are due OCTOBER 15. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

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Robert Wagner, “Preservation of the Newsreel Films of President Harding,” (1969)
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What the National Board of Review was up to in 1916. Special screening to discuss if nudity can be artful enough to get a license to exhibit a commercial motion pictures. (NYPL collection)
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UWLibs Digital Collections: digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...
Sayre Collection, 24,000+ photos of theatrical performers 1900-1955. J. Willis Sayre: critic, journalist, promoter

7,622 photos tagged "Motion Pictures"
e.g., 1929, Geraldine Dvorak, Garbo's double
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Lordy, AI art is ugly. Dispiriting.
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Yes. Also true of the criminal killing of the boat from Venezuela.
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Serous W:
Which came first? The theme song or Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier”?
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Geo. Willeman sharing frames on FB from new LOC acquisition: hand-colored 35mm print of THE BURNING STABLE, an 1896 Edison film. b/w file from www.loc.gov/item/00694165
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There are mean things happening in this land (as they sing in the 1940 film MEN AND DUST).

Nevertheless, I like what Jordan Peele did in NOPE (2022). Turn the mythologized origin story of Muybridge's horse pictures into a different origin story.
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Inviting applications for filmmakers to be recognized at the April 2026 symposium. Apply by October 16. Recipient/s present their work in person. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...
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These be great. Was watching the Missouri girls basketball film today. I have some KC press coverage of the schoolhouse calisthenics. Includes some line drawings rendered from the AMB images. IIRC
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The Cavalier’s Dream (1898)
2025 music
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Uh-huh.
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Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'

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1839 daguerreotype of Samuel F. B. Morse. By William Draper. 1839!

As NYU professors they had a portrait studio atop the building on Washington Square East.
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Friendly reminder, gentle colleagues. Propose !
Save the dates.
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CFP: Call for Proposals to present at the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium, "Crisis and Community,"
April 8-11, 2026, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...
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Excellent crowd-sourced filmography ensues.
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Silent film people, I'm reworking the proto-SF in early cinema section of my Science Fiction Film syllabus. Do you have any favorite examples?
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Love it too. (When the voice sings “…this one thing I know,” my brain heard “it’s like fish on the floor.”)