Actual Christmas present. Current hit manga/anime, DAN DA DAN. Supernatural comedy serial. Episode 1: Momo [believes in ghosts but not aliens[ and Okarun [believes in aliens, but not ghosts] Their first goal: retrieve his missing testicles.

A 1940 film by about the JACL. The editor holds a film strip in the first scene.

It’s Basquiat’s birthday. Fur hat. Fur hat. Two images from Warhol’s INTERVIEW magazine, July 1984. The unlikely duo of the Warhol protege with Andy’s mentor Emile de Antonio. Marxist filmmaker sports Armani watch.

Estonia

Memorable event of 2025 meeting Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. His Centre’s team does good work. The Tallinn airport is filled with photos and Pärt quotations all year in honor of his 90th birthday.

Prokofiev in the building’s laundry room discard pile.

“Get to the airport 3 hours before departure . . . so we can make you stay near the departure gate for 6 hours.”

Sheepishly and reluctantly, we turn to this. www.gofundme.com/f/help-dan-m...

Jan 31 orphan films at MoMA www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

US Navy film from 1945 about latrines and sanitation. USE YOUR HEAD!

First cover, first issue, first in the ol' cinephiles' hearts. Bazin on SUNSET BOULEVARD.

Guy thinks he’s Orson Welles. youtu.be/vBeRV4yVA6k?...

Sheepishly and reluctantly, we turn to this. www.gofundme.com/f/help-dan-m...

Having just watched DUCK AMUCK with students, I guess the robot surveillance squad chose to put this in my feed. Not sure why the editors chose it to illustrate the article. moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/29/t...

Maud Madison: La Danse Serpentine, 1897. youtu.be/kE6s4Pj37CM

Kodak congratulates Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid [sic] (MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON) for receiving an Honorable Mention in the Amateur Cinema League's "Ten Best" list for 1945. Alongside a film by the Boy Scouts of America, THE PATROL METHOD [a lost film?].

Neal Katyal in oral arguments before the Supreme Court today referenced a "Marshall McLuhan moment" (as in ANNIE HALL).

Halloween is largely about Welles in my first thoughts ever year.

Nam June Paik “Yolguk” 2002. @ Korean Cultural Center New York

1986.

Union Square, after the other marches

Not to distract from the excitement of Orphan Film Symposium proposals pouring in for 2026, but I do love this from Yuri Tsivian. The heart pounding at film history discoveries.

Now is the time: propose !

Pictures not in New York.

1916 Griffith. 1918 Mayakovsky & Brik.

The Skladanowsky 54mm film projector of 1895 use brass grommets to secure the sprocket holes (?). tangiblemediacollection.com/artifacts/sk...

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... PHOTO Robert Wagner, “Preservation of the Newsreel Films of President Harding,” (1969)

Happy Birthday, Dad.

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)

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

Sure enough.

Happy 90th, composer Arvo Pärt www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fjt...

Lordy, AI art is ugly. Dispiriting.

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

of NOLA vimeo.com/196979559

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.

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...

6pm Monday FILM FORUM

The Cavalier’s Dream (1898) 2025 music

Uh-huh.

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.

Goldman portrait.

Friendly reminder, gentle colleagues. Propose ! Save the dates.

Excellent crowd-sourced filmography ensues.

Video reanimation (Paul Burns). Cover of SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, Oct. 19, 1878. 18 "skillfully engraved" drawings from Muybridge photographs. Readers were invited to paste the pictures on paper strips and view them in their own Zoetropes. archive.org/details/scie...