University of South Carolina Film Studies Program
presents
the 5th Orphan Film Symposium
March 22-25, 2006
Orphans 5: Science,
Industry & Education
.
Wednesday, March 22
8:00 pm SCREENING: Phantomatic Technologies
Dean Mary Anne Fitzpatrick (USC) Welcome Message (listen)
Bill Morrison (NYC) presents Outerborough (2005) (listen) Q&A following (listen)
Dan Streible (USC) on Dr. Ives on Television (Movietone, 1928) (listen)
Julie Hubbert (USC) on Scientists Invent New Musical Instrument (Movietone, 1930) (listen)
Caroline Martel (Montréall) presents Le Fantôme de l’0pératrice
(The Phantom of the 0perator, 2005) (listen) Q&A Following (listen)
Thursday, March 23
9:00 am Welcome Message from Susan Courtney (listen)
Dan Streible Orphan Films of Science, Industry & Education (listen)
9:15 –
11:00 am SCIENTIFIC IMAGING
Mike Mashon (library of Congress)Introduces Powers of Ten (Eames 1977) (listen) filling in for Tom Gunning (U of Chicago) Demonstrating Science, Producing Magic: Scientific Oddities as Visual Entertainment, from the 17th Century to Early Cinema
Scott Curtis (Northwestern)
On Magnification
Oliver Gaycken (Temple) A History of Violence: Recurring Motifs in Popular Science Films (listen)
Davis Baird (USC NanoCenter) Moving Image Simulations of the Nanoscale (listen)
11:15 am – 1:00 pm THE
NATURE OF FILM
Jennifer Lynn Peterson (U of Colorado) Introduces Chumming with Chipmunks
(listen) Presents Beasts
Fair and Foul: Locating Wildlife in Early Nature Films
Paula Amad (U of Iowa) ‘Time is invention’: Jean Comandon's Time-lapse Cinematography, Bergsonian History, and Early French Film Theory
Janelle
Blankenship (NYU) 'Unbelievable Nature': The Time-Lapse
Cinema of John Ott
Chumming
with Chipmunks (Goldwyn-Bray
Pictograph, 1921)
accompaniment by the Assembly Street Quartet
2:15 –
3:45 pm EARLY TV SCIENCE
Kara Van Malssen (NYU) introduces Television Pictures (Movietone, 1931)
restored by Colorlab (listen)
Elaine Charnov (American Museum of Natural History) on Adventure (1953-56, CBS) (listen)
Craig Baldwin (Other Cinema) Science in Action (CAS, 1952-66): Spectral Uses of Kinescopy (listen) (The end of this clip includes a Q&A)
4:00 – 5:30 pm MISSIONARY SCIENCE
Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks) & Marsha
Orgeron (North Carolina State U) 'Something Different in Science Films': The Moody Institute of Science
and the Canned Missionary Movement
Fish
Out of Water! (1954, MIS Educational Film Division)
Devin Orgeron (NCSU) Spreading the Word: The Science of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer's T.B. Films
They Do Come Back (1940, National Tuberculosis Association) (listen) Panel Q&A (listen)
8:00 –
10:45 pm SCREENING: FILM IS.
Nico de Klerk (Nederlands
Filmmuseum) Bits and Pieces Nr. 1-11
Gustav Deutsch (Vienna) presents Film ist. (1998-2003)
& Welt Spiegel Kino (2005) Episode 1 (listen)
Friday, March 24
9:00 –
10:30 am Restoring the
Films and Legacy of Julien Bryan
Sam Bryan introduction (listen)
Raye Farr (USHMM) 'As for me, I believe in people': Peoples of the Soviet Union (1935), Poland and Japan
Russ Suniewick (Colorlab) Restoring Degraded Nitrate (listen)
Regina Longo (UCSB) The Search for Siege (RKO, 1940) (listen) (clip also includes commentary by Raye Farr)
moderator
Sam Bryan (International
Film Foundation)
10:45 am - 12:15 pm NEWSREEL
as WARTIME INDUSTRY
Cooperative Preservation
of the Movietone Newsreel Collections
Mike Mashon, Cooper Graham, George
Willeman (listen) (Library
of Congress)
Greg Wilsbacher, Phu Nguyen (listen), Jennifer Snyder(listen) (USC Newsfilm Library)
Closing Remarks (listen)
Pearl Harbor Attack: Now It Can Be Shown (1942) newsreel & outtakes
Fulbright Committee to Visit London (1944)
1:30 –
3:00 pm in other news . . .
Sean Savage (NYU) The Eye Beholds: The Bureau of Commercial Economics as Film
Distributor
Madison News Reel (c. 1930) from Northeast Historic Film (listen)
Joe Clark (Brown) Educating the Race: Inequality and Pedagogy in the Films of All-American News (listen)
Bradley Reeves & Louisa Trott (Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound) 'Sam Orleans Will Go Anywhere, Film Anything'
Today's News, Tomorrow's Men (1946) preserved by Colorlab (listen)
3:30 –
5:15 pm
INDUSTRIAL, INSTITUTIONAL & SPONSORED
FILMS: A FIELD GUIDE
A National Film Preservation Foundation project
with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The [Your Name Here] Story (c. 1960, the Calvin Workshop) (watch the film on archive.org)
Don Crafton (Notre Dame) The Research Value of Sponsored Films (listen)
Wendy Shay (Smithsonian NMAH) Industrial Films in Multiformat Collections (listen)
Rick Prelinger (Internet Archive) An Illustrated Overview of the Sponsored Film
panel Q&A (listen)
8:00 –
10:45 pm SCREENING:
Rick Prelinger presents an evening of
INDUSTRIAL, INSTITUTIONAL & SPONSORED
FILMS
Rick Prelinger Introduction (listen)
Scott Simmon introduces An American in the Making
(1913, Thanhouser) by Carl L. Gregory, for U.S. Steel Corp (listen).;
piano accompaniment by Neil Lerner
Jan-Christopher Horak introduces the George Eastman House restoration Eyes of Science (1930) by Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr., for Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (listen)
Rick Prelinger introduces the restored Master Hands (1936) by the Jam Handy Organization, for Chevrolet Motor Co. (listen) Alan Stark (Film Technology) & Tom Regal (BluWave Audio) discuss their work on the film. (listen) (This clip includes a Q&A)
George Stoney introduces Booked for Safekeeping (1960) by George Stoney, for the Louisiana Association for Mental Health (listen) Q&A following the film (listen)
and more from the Prelinger panorama . . .
Saturday, March 25
9:00 –
9:30 am CAROLINIANA CURRICULA & CURIOSA
Greg Wilsbacher (USC Newsfilm Lib.) and Russ Suniewick (Colorlab) introduceHow the Professor Fooled the Burglars (Edison, 1900) (listen)
Craig
Kridel (USC Museum of Education) on
John Dewey's home movies
(1939) and Dewey on Education (Movietone, 1929)
Skip Elsheimer talks
about Ro-Revus Talks About Worms (1971)
9:30 –
10:30 am
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Visiting Artist
David Shepard
(Film Preservation
Associates)
'Through
the Alimentary Canal With Gun and Camera':
ERPI Classroom Films
10:45 am – 12:30 pm IN THE CLASSROOM
Charles Acland (Concordia, Montral) Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionists: Post-WWII Consolidation of Community Film Activism (listen)
Eef Masson (U of Utrecht) and Claudy Op den Kamp (Nederlands Filmmuseum) Present a Collection of Dutch Educational Films (listen)
Robert Silberman (U of Minnesota) & Matt Bakkom (Minnesota Film Arts) 'Search and Rescue'
Sophie More: A Fictitious Representation of Campus Life (c. 1918) (listen)
preserved
by Monaco Film + Video
piano accompaniment by Dennis James
1:45 –
2:45 pm COTTAGE INDUSTRY, HOME SCHOOLING
The Center for Home Movies
Snowden Becker, Brian Graney, Chad Hunter, Dwight Swanson, Katie Trainor
The Best of Home Movie Day (listen)
Anke Mebold
[Charles Boehm amateur film] (c. 1920, 28mm Pathscope) (listen)
Margaret Compton (University of Georgia Media Archives) (listen)
[Louis Harris, Sr. home movie, Nevada] (1953, 16mm Kodachrome)
[Fire insurance industrial] (c. 1924) restoration by Haghefilm, Peter Limburg
3:00 –
4:15 pm SEX Ed.
Christopher Lane & Amy Sloper (UCLA) Sex Mis-Education: The Sex-Ed Film in the Moving Image Archive Intro (listen) Outro (listen)
Linda Williams (UC Berkeley) Porn Films in the Kinsey Institute and Elsewhere
4:30 – 6:00 pm MEDICAL ETHICS
Snowden Becker (Academy Film Archive) & Penny Withrow(Cherry Hospital) Dr. Whelpley's Films of the North
Carolina 'Asylum for the Colored Insane'
Zoe Beloff (Queens College) Dr. Clark's Projections (listen) (includes Panel Q&A)
Child Analysis I and II, Stamford Psychoanalytic Sanitarium (1930)
restoration by Cineric, Diana Little
8:00 pm AFTER SCHOOL SPECIALS
Buckey Grimm introduces
piano
accompaniment by Christopher Nash
Helen Hill New Orleans filmmaker, post-Katrina home movies and animation (listen)
Bill Morrison Who By Water (2006) (listen)
Paula Amad introduces
La Croissance des végétaux(1929) by Dr. Jean Comandon, for Institut Pasteur (listen)
piano
accompaniment by Joe Milutis
Karl Heider introduces
Johnsons on Africa Expedition (Movietone, 1929) print by Summit Film Lab
Geoff Alexander (Academic Film Archive of North America) on Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level (1971)
Stephen Parr (Oddball Film + Video) on Living in a Reverse World (1958) (listen)
Carolyn Faber For the Record (2004)
Andrew Lampert Benetton
(2004)
Greg Pierce (The Orgone Archive) with Three Motion Picture Test Hops [inaudible] (listen)
. . . other
Video lounge viewing (Thursday &
Friday) curated by Joe Milutis
The Orphan Film Symposium's
generous partners and sponsors:
Kodak
Dan Klores
Haghefilm
Summit
Colorlab
Film Technology
Cineric
BluWave Audio /
Universal Studios
Technicolor
Cinetech
FotoKem
Apple
Milestone Film
& Video
New Yorker Films
University of
California Press
Women Makes Movies
City Art
Carolina Productions
/ Cinematic Arts
Ben Arnold-Sunbelt
Beverage
additional thanks to
National Film
Preservation Foundation
&
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Library of Congress
Motion Picture Conservation Center
&
The Film Foundation
the USC Film Studies
Program, a part of the
University of South
Carolina College of Arts and Sciences
and the Office of the
Provost
Film projection by Full
Aperture Systems
Video and audio by ACS
Sound and Lighting
So many thanks are due.
. .
at USC:
Provost Mark Becker, Dean Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Karl Heider, Gordon
Baylis, Thorne Compton, Phil Dunn, Susan Courtney, Laura Kissel, Julie Hubbert,
Joe Milutis, Ina Hark, Steve Marsh, Pat Jackson, Susan Hipp, Craig Kridel,
David Whiteman, Clay Bolton, Don Barth, Frances Terzak, Heidi Mehltretter,
Jennifer Marshall, Jeremy Vanderknyff, Jimmy Henderson, June Robinson, Lynda
Tilley, Pat Maney, Scotty Kednocker, Stephen Williams, Bill Fairchild, Chappell
Wilson, Carmela Carr, Denton Smith, Woody Jones, and factotum David Burch
USC Newsfilm Library
staff Greg Wilsbacher, Ben
Singleton, Scott Allen, Andrew Murdoch, Stan Lollis, Phu Nguyen, Jennifer
Snyder
orphanistas Erin
Curtis, Gianina Ferraiulo, James Basler,
Jason Craig, Kay Kennerty, Kelly St. John Cornwell, Kristi Castro, Laura Major,
Lauren Heath, Leslie Stewart, Samantha Hayford, Sunnshyne Harris, Travis Hardy,
Virengia Houston
AMIA: Laura
Rooney, Beverly Graham, Janice Simpson
NFPF:
Annette Melville, Jeff Lambert, David Wells, Rebecca Payne-Collins, Alex
Thimons
GEH: Patrick Loughney, Caroline Yeager, Ed Stratmann, Jeff
Stoiber
NYU MIAP: Alicia
Kubes, Howard Besser, Mona Jimenez, Ann Harris and students
UFVA: Karla
Berry
LOC: Gregory Lukow, Mike Mashon, Ken Weissman, Amy Gallick, Cooper Graham,
George Willeman, Steve Leggett, Madeline Matz
Musicians Dennis James, Neil Lerner, Joe Milutis, and, from the
USC School of Music, Christopher Nash, Adam Estes, Ian Jeffress, Lauren Meccia,
Bob Young, with music director Julie Hubbert
orphanistas del
mundo Alan Berliner, Alan Stark,
Alfred Leslie, Andrew Lampert, Arianne Ulmer-Cipes, Balzs Nyari, Bill Brand,
Bill Morrison, Bill OŐFarrell, Brian Graney, Brigitte Berg, Bryony Dixon, Caroline
Frick, Chad Hunter, Chip Wilkinson, Chris Horak, Chris Straayer, Cindi Rowell,
Colleen Simpson, Dan Klores, David Pierce, David Shepard, David Weiss, Dennis
Doros, Don Henderson, Dwight Swanson, Ed White, Emily Cohen, Fleur Buckley,
Francis Poole, Gypsye Legge, Jackie Stewart, James Bond, Jeff Stafford, Jenny
Horne, John Carlson, John Johnson, Josh Mabe, J. X. Williams, Karan Sheldon,
Katie Trainor, Kelli Hicks, Kelli HicksŐs guitar, Lee Tsiantis, Les Waffen, Liz
Keim, Luke Savisky, Margie Compton, Marleen Labijt, Martina Roepke, Mary
Francis, Matt Sefick, Melinda Stone, Nancy Watrous, Ned Thanhouser, Paul
Cullum, Peter Eaves, Peter Limburg, Peter Bregman, Randy Haberkamp, Rich
Carlson, Rick Prelinger, Russ Scheller, Russ Suniewick, Sarah Ziebell Mann,
Snowden Becker, Stephanie Stewart, Steve Ricci, Thom Powers, Tom Regal, Valarie
Schwan; and Columbians Chloe, Mia and Bob Bohl, Eleanor and Rich Wachtel, Larry
Hembree, Harriet Showman, David Sneath, Wendy Wells, Fox Trotsky, Shantih Bear,
and Winston. Extra special thanks
to polymath and orphan widow Teri Tynes.
Program design by Stephanie
Nace