Jun 4, 2012

Orphan films and social media

NYU home page for Orphans projects and events. Documentation of symposium including text, audio, images, and video, e.g., Orphans 8 at www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/orphans8.

"archivists, academics, & artists saving, studying, & screening neglected moving images." You are here. Occasional articles, announcements, and news. Guest bloggers welcome.

Internet Archive: Orphan Film Symposium Collection
http://archive.org/details/OrphanFilmSymposium 
Audio recordings of past symposia talks, interviews with participants (edited and unedited), and verite footage.

For sending and receiving official OFS communiques and file attachments. Forwards to dan.streible@nyu.edu.

Twitter: Orphan Film Project
@Orphan_Films
"saving, screening, studying neglected moving images since 1999."
(Hashtag was #orphans8. Now #orphanfilms.)

Tumblr: orphan_films
"Neglected cinema artifacts." A microblog. One picture at a time.

Facebook group: Orphan Film Symposium
562 members as of today; ask to join.

Flickr group: Orphan Film Symposium
www.flickr.com/groups/orphanfilmsymposium  
686 items, documenting the three NYC symposiums (2008 to present).

Wikipedia: Orphan film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_film 
"a motion picture work that has been abandoned by its owner or copyright holder; also, any film that has suffered neglect...."

"What is an orphan film?" 
 www.sc.edu/filmsymposium/orphanfilm.html 


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