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Orphan Film Spotlight—Blackie the Wonder Horse Swims the Golden Gate (1938)
Blackie arrives in San Francisco after a pleasant swim.The mission of the NFPF is to save and make accessible “orphan films.” These are movies unprotected by commercial interests, including...
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NFPF Preserved Films at Cinecon
Douglas Fairbanks in Wild and Woolly (1917).From September 3-7 an eclectic roster of classic films will be screened at Grauman’s Egyptian Theater, thanks to the Cinecon Classic Film Festival, a Labor...
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Spotlight on Home Movies
Slavko Vorkapich, 1940Last Sunday, TV viewers were treated to a news segment on home movies, broadcast by CBS Sunday Morning. Now available online, "Bringing the importance of home movies into focus,"...
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The National Film Preservation Foundation at the Exploratorium
33 Yo-Yo Tricks (1976)On Thursday, September 17th, the Exploratorium in San Francisco will present “Scintillating 16mm: Newly Preserved Gems from American Archives,” a program of eight films from all...
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Seven Films to be Preserved Through Avant-Garde Masters Grants
Gregory Markopoulos’ Twice a Man (1963)Owen Land’s “structuralist” subversions, a Ken Jacobs reckoning with silent narrative, a mythic reverie from Gregory Markopoulos, an early work from Fred Camper,...
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Orphan Film Spotlight—Roach’s Lullaby (1973) and Welcome to Spivey’s Corner...
Coharie elder Leonard Emanuel demonstrates hollerin' techniques in Welcome to Spivey's Corner (1978).Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s Exploratorium screening of films preserved through NFPF...
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NFPF Preserved Films at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto
Anna May Wong in Drifting (1923).Held annually in Pordenone, northern Italy, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto is the biggest and most prestigious silent film festival in the world. The 34th edition,...
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New in the Screening Room—A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer (1964)
Students at a Freedom School in Mississippi in 1964, photographed by Richard Beymer. Courtesy Washington University Film & Media Archive.Actor Richard Beymer took a Bolex camera to Misissippi in...
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Six “Lost” Films Premiering on the NFPF Website
An Iguanodon demonstrates what life was like Fifty Million Years Ago (1925).Now available for viewing are the first fruits of the NFPF’s partnership with EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Six newly...
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Happy Thanksgiving
His Mother's Thanksgiving (1910)The NFPF would like to give thanks to all of our friends and supporters. To celebrate the holiday, we hope you will enjoy His Mother's Thanksgiving (1910), a melodrama...
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NFPF Preserved Film Screenings
The title card of Lyman H. Howe’s Famous Ride on a Runaway Train (1921).The NFPF blog awakens from its winter hibernation to bring you news of two NFPF-related screenings. This Wednesday, February 24,...
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The National Film Preservation has relocated to the Ninth Street Independent Film Center just south of Market Street in San Francisco. Only a few blocks from our old home in the Flood Building, the new...
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The Orphan Film Symposium
This week the 10th Orphan Film Symposium kicks off at the Library of Congress’s Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation. Convened by New York University, this edition of the Symposium focuses on...
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When Buster Keaton Met Samuel Beckett: FILM and NOTFILM
Buster Keaton caught by the camera in FILM (1965).Sometimes preservation can give a film a second life, or even inspire a movie about it. A case in point is FILM (1965), an avant-garde short that...
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64 Films To Be Saved Through the NFPF’s 2016 Preservation Grants
James Blue on the set of The Olive Trees of Justice (1989).From The Streets of Greenwood (1963), a documentary about civil rights activists registering African American voters in Mississippi, to James...
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival Returns
Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema, from EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.This week is graced by the 26th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the largest event in America dedicated to that...
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Orphan Film Spotlight: Adaptive Behavior of Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels
Working for peanuts in Adaptive Behavior of Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels (1942).Preserved by the University of Oregon, Adaptive Behavior of Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels (1942) depicts members of...
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Preservation Projects: The L.A. Rebellion
Diary of an African Nun (1977), directed by Julie Dash.Film preservation not only safeguards individual films, but can also preserve a film movement. An exciting example is UCLA Film & Television...
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Daughter of Dawn on Blu-Ray
Daughter of Dawn (1920)Films preserved through NFPF funding are always made available for public access, whether onsite or online, but some archives go further by partnering with a distributor to make...
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Pioneers of African American Cinema
The Blood of Jesus (1941), directed by Spencer Williams.A collection of foundational works of African American cinema will become available to the public on July 26, when the Blu-Ray/DVD set Pioneers...
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