“Orphans of New York”
at Film Forum, NYC (209 W. Houston St.)
Sunday, Oct. 14, 3:10 pm
repeats Monday, Oct. 15, 7:00 pm
Memorable shorts shot in New York City, 1899 to 1979.
Introductions by Bruce Goldstein (Film Forum) & Dan Streible (NYU Cinema Studies) + special guests
Piano accompaniment for silent films by Steve Sterner
See little-known films such as these:
* New York University (ca. 1960) Willard Van Dyke
Library of Congress Paper Print Collection, new scans:
* New Brooklyn to New York Via Brooklyn Bridge no. 1 (1899) Edison Co.
* The Deceived Slumming Party (1908) Biograph Co.
Dawson City Collection fragments selected by Bill Morrison:
* The “Uplift” of the Horse (Universal Animated Weekly, 1917)
* Negroes’ Protest a Silent Parade (Universal, 1917)
* Anarchists Bomb Wall Street (British Canadian Pathé, 1920)
* [Elsa and Albert Einstein at Warner Bros. – First National Studio 1931]
* a new 35mm print of the storied NYC Street Scenes and Noises (1929) Fox Movietone News
* Bronx Baby Parade — outtakes (1934) Fox Movietone News
* Broadway by Day (1932) Magic Carpet of Movietone
* The Making of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Young Filmmakers Foundation, 16mm prints
* Black Faces (1970) Studio Museum, Harlem
* Life in New York (1969) Alfonso Pagan & Luis Vale
* Ellis Island (1975) Steve Siegel & Phil Buehler
Sunday intro by Elena Rossi-Snook (New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
* What’s Happening in Harlem? (1949) Communist Party USA
* Venus and Adonis (1935) Harry Dunham & J. V. D. Bucher
* EPH 4/27/16 (1979) Ephraim Horowitz
Monday intro by Kimberly Tarr (NYU Libraries)
* Three American Beauties (1906) Edison
SOURCES (It takes a village.)
Academy Film Archive
Albert Einstein Archives, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Center for Home Movies
Craig Baldwin / Other Cinema Archives
estate of Ephraim Horowitz (via Fandor.com)
estate of Wallace Kelly
Library and Archives Canada (via Bill Morrison)
Library of Congress
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Museum of Modern Art
National Library of Norway
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New York University
Prelinger Archives
Richard Scheckman
University of Iowa Libraries (via Andrew Sherburne, Tommy Haines, Saving Brinton)
University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections
Thanks to the film whisperers and NYU alumni of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program whose research led to some of these discoveries: Becca Bender, Genevieve Havemeyer-King, and Blake McDowell.