My father’s half-brother.

Found that Jodie Mack 35mm movie she made for Tom Gunning in 2019. In a proverbial cigar box. Never projected. Will be difficult to scan. Stickers on every frame.

97-seconds of HH in 2026 trailer. Delightful. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

T minus 1 day, SC.

That same year.

Underseen Ts. Alfred Leslie finds a strip of 35mm film amid the rubble of the fire that destroyed most of his life’s work. He talked about it at Orphans 2001. A lion.

Resharing this for the evening crowd because I’m super pumped for this!

Berlin. May 9, 1945. Happy Victory Day to all who commemorate the end of Nazi rule.

If not the greatest, my favorite.

The jury made a wise choice.

Lumière 75mm film for Paris Universal Exposition 1900.

Eric Hoyt unveils the Media History Digital Library’s new Dana Polan 1939 page.

It happened at 100 Third Avenue. • 1910 The Comet nickelodeon, • 1936, as The Lyric, Berenice Abbott photo. • 1963 Satie's "Vexations" (ca. 1894), debut with 840 repetitions, produced by John Cage, Pocket Theatre. • 1970s-2002 Bijou, Jewel, et al. "all-male adult" house

Dana Polan with Sinatra tribute artist and co-authors at last night’s post-symposium celebration. The Martin Scorsese Chair of NYU Cinema Studies is retiring (officially Aug 31).

Orphans 2026: Bret Wood debuted his restoratoin of Highways of Agony (1969) 27 min. 2K, from the 16mm A/B negatives in the Prelinger Collection. A new blog post. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Columbia SC 1937ish. Richard Roberts. Glad plate neg

Friday.

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Deaccessioning a lot of books. (If you want some to carry away.). Difficult to know what used book stores will buy these days. Last time I tried a stack of best ones and got zip. Yesterday a bag of pulp yielded 17$.

What an honor to have presented Anna May Wong's film The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927) with Yiman Wang @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social at Orphans 2026! Many thanks to Dan Streible @orphanfilm.bsky.social for organizing such a beautiful symposium at the OSU's Wexner Center for the Arts @osuwexmed.bsky.social

Also: Pope Leo XIV, remarks on cinema, worth a listen. Thoughtful. The value of slow cinema. Silent cinema. The wind in the trees. youtu.be/rTUT1mJMFCU?...

If you run out of films, make your own fun. Joel Schlemowitz #Orphans2026

Magic lantern slide Welcome to the finale. #Orphans2026 @joelschlemowitz.bsky.social

Joel Schlemowitz packing up his magic lantern, as one does. #Orphans2026

Filipino American Historical Association of Chicago home movies from Ohio. 1937! #Orphans2026

The internet tells me this was 10 years ago today?! And one decade later #Orphans2026 at Ohio State is about to get underway! @orphanfilm.bsky.social

Tomorrow. Http://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm

QUESTION!(?) If I'm flying out of LaGuardia aiport at 2:30pm, how early should I prepare to arrive? (Terminal 3, Delta. Got 1 bag to check.)

See wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Community and Crisis and Community. A teaser 25 secs. Héctor Morales. thx TAMIS John Morton for the beautiful color films from Clarksville bank, 1939. Found unid. recording of "Go Where I Send Thee." #orphans2026

George Willeman brings newly preserved state-sponsored Ohio films. This, from 1937, the first in a series of one-reel films.

Come along, do.

Also this one, which I like. It should be cover art.

A filmstrip called "A Slave Story" (1986). Christopher Harris live-narrates at #Orphans2026 April 8-11. Photo: Tara Merenda Nelson (Visual Studies Workshop)

See this rediscovered Hollywood film, which survived only in small gauge and in another language. 99 years old. #Orphans2026 April 8-11.

Soviet Kitchen. Photo by Jacki Ochs. Restoration of her film LETTERS NOT ABOUT LOVE (1998) at Orphans 2026. April 8-11.

Jamie Kalven & Bill M. present work-in-progress at Orphans 2026. Bodycam video released after CHICAGO v. NOEM DHS "would have people believe" Chicago's in "a vise hold of violence" justifying "indiscriminate uses of force. . . That narrative simply is untrue." -- Judge Sara L. Ellis

The object finds its archivist. Aaron Lu (NYU MIAP thesis) shows this film from the YIVO archives, made at summer camp. Intertitles in Yiddish and Chinese! How many film archivists read these 2 languages? Only him?

New scans of home movies of a communist activist, Portugal, 1976.

Amateur Movie Day is next week. In 2025, Yale's Alice Cinema and Brian Meacham of the Yale Film Center screened a half dozen gems. Including the Soviet Russian title seen here. I BELIEVE IN SPRING (1962). It was the first film by director Slava Tsukerman (Liquid Sky, 1982). R.I.P Slava. 2.28.2026

Treats and door prizes at the NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference

Test successful. We will get live piano accompaniment for a silent film restoration in progress next week. Doros-Heller-Sosin.