A selection of short silent films with new scores by NYU Screen Scoring Program students. Professor Ron Sadoff, founding program director, matched composers to works selected by Dan Streible, NYU Cinema Studies, Orphan Film Symposium.
Each entry is linked to its own page with newly scored orphan films and notes about their histories
Deyo (American Mutoscope Co., 1897) 49 seconds. Three videos with new scores. Surviving fragments of a never-released recording of emerging dance star Blanche Deyo. The fragmentary footage was preserved on rare 68mm paper rolls and scanned by Cineric film lab at 4K in 2019. The Library of Congress Paper Print Collection labels the two fragments as Part 1 and Part 2. Three separate scores by George Warren, Pano Fountas, and Noah Horowitz. (c) 2021.
Three American Beauties (Edison, 1906) 53 seconds.
Cast: Blanche Deyo? National Library of Norway.
Music composed and recorded by Jake Dieli. (c) 2021.
A Trip Down Market Street (Miles Bros., 1906) 12 min.
Music by Agatha Kasprzyk and Rafaël Leloup
[The Comet] (Edison, 1910) 2 minutes.
Never-released footage commissioned for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910.
Cast: Anna Held (the comet), Harry Watson (the earth). George Kleine Collection, Library of Congress.
Music composed and recorded by Andrew Goehring; additional vocals by Grace Carver. (c) 2021.
The Georgetown Loop (American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1901) 2 min.
Music by Jessica Wen Jun Ciprian
Chicks to Order (American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1903) 1 min.
A comic trick film preserved by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Music by Mengxue Tan
Chicks Made to Order (Lubin, 1903) 49 sec.
A “dupe” of the Biograph film, sold as a Lubin production
Music by Mengxue Tan
Unidentified film [In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea], a.k.a [Triptych Poem] (ca. 1926) 4 min.
Music by Mikhaila Alyssa Smith
A Trip to the Planets (unknown, 192?) 17 min.
Music by Agatha Kasprzyk and Rafaël Leloup
[NYU Surveillance Film of Dow Chemical Demonstration] (1968) 16 min.
Music by Michael Graves, Ken Jacobson, Jonathan Manness, with Stefan Swanson
Chronicles of Izhor-Film (People’s Film Studio Izhor-Film Kolpino, ca. 1987) Leningrad, USSR
Music by Oscar Pan, Ryan Powell, and Charles Brecknock Stacy