And what Work & Play on the final day? and the closing night?
Not just work but labor: women on the assembly line, union organizing, a May Day parade, inventors, sex-workers, sound mixers, and hot-metal typesetters. Play abounds in the love of amateurs, shenanigans in a film studio, skateboarding, queer comedy, dancing, painting, children improvising play in the streets of Harlem and woods of Oregon. And music. Lots of music. Worlds recorded across nine decades.
SATURDAY, April 13
10am Workers of the World
Aurore Spiers (U Chicago) Women Workers in the Media Archive: French Automobile Factory Films, 1914–1925
Jacob Perlin (Film Desk/Cinema Conservancy) CPUSA Films Found in the UK: The People’s Holiday (United May Day Committee, 1947) & What’s Happening in Harlem? (1949)
Rosemary Feurer (NIU) & Charles Musser (Yale) Carl Marzani and The Sentner Story (1953)
11:50 Shenanigans
Adina Brădeanu (U of Oxford) A Film Studio in Bucharest Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary. Noi la cinci ani (Us, Aged Five, Romania, 1955)
Masha Godovannaya (Smolny Beyond Borders) The Archive of Necrorealist Evgeny Yufit
Todd Wiener (UCLA) One in Seven: True Confessions of a Gay Fleshpouinder (John Canalli, 1988)
Natalie Snoyman (Mill Valley Public Library) Beyond Invention: Vibrabath advertising film (Hal Schwartz, ca. 1957)
2:45pm Soundworks
Antonia Lant (NYU) The Pyramid Pictures Corporation, 1920-1922
Donald Crafton (U of Notre Dame) “Leo Roars!”
Shane Fleming (film collector) Drawing Room Talkies: DeVry Cine-Tone Films, 1928-1929
Susan Delson (film historian, arts writer) Work and Wartime, Soundies Style, 1941-1944
4:30 pm Kids at Play
Jennifer Horne (UC Santa Cruz) About Our Children (U.S. Children’s Bureau, 1921)
David Sherman (U of Arizona) Painting and Scratching on Celluloid with Wayne Thiebaud: Make a Movie Without a Camera (1954)
Stephen Slappe (Dead Media Hour) East Bay Skateboarders, 1965 Home Movies
Adrianne Finelli (Prelinger Archives) & Jon Shibata (BAMPFA) See the Forest and the Trees: The Creative Work of the Fillinger Family Celebration of Life: Trees (Paul Fillinger, 1973)
8:00 pm Farewell to Work and the Restoration of Play
Dana Polan (Martin Scorsese Chair, NYU) remarks
Luke Kuplowsky (York U) Where Will The Children Play? Urban Detritus and the Cine-Child in My Own Yard to Play In (1959)
Kimberly Tarr (NYU) introduces the preservation premiere of Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (David Loeb Weiss, 1980)
Sasha Waters (VCU) How to Restore a Film that Never Was?
Note: Hourly schedule subject to change.
From Make a Movie Without a Camera (1954), which David Sherman will present (with a 78rpm record accompaniment — since the soundtrack is lost).