MLK Day and film preservation

Happy Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (aka MLK Day in the USA). On Sunday, January 23, 2022 (1:30pm) the mostly-annual “Orphans at MoMA” screening returns to the Museum of Modern Art’s To Save and Project, International Festival of Film Preservation. More on that in the next post. For now we can note that among the 14 short films on display will be outtakes from a 1973 Turkish documentary about James Baldwin and three recently preserved very early silent films (1898, 1902) documenting African American performers and communities.  The 2022 TSP festival opened with the Academy Film Archives restoration of