Lecture/Screening class (3 hours)
Lecture with Jeff Lambert, Executive Director of the National Film Preservation Foundation. Live music by Judith Rosenberg on piano.
The San Francisco–based National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) is dedicated to saving American films made outside the commercial sector. Since the NFPF’s inception in 1997, the organization has preserved more than 2,200 films. Executive director Jeff Lambert will offer an overview of the mission and activities of the NFPF and present a selection of films they have helped preserve, from silent-era social-issue films, documentaries, and short narratives to orphan films and artist-made independent productions.
The Breath of a Nation (Gregory La Cava, US, 1919, 6 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From George Eastman Museum)
Children Who Labor (Thomas Edison Company, US, 1912, 13 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From The Museum of Modern Art)
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, shot by G.W. Bitzer, US, 1905, 5 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From The Museum of Modern Art)
Lyman H. Howe’s Famous Ride on a Runaway Train (US, 1921, 6 mins, Silent with track, B&W, Digital)
Running Around San Francisco for an Education (C.R. Skinner, US, 1938, 0:90 mins, B&W, 35mm, BAMPFA collection)
Notes on the Port of St. Francis (Frank Stauffacher, US, 1951, 22 mins, B&W, 16mm, BAMPFA collection)
Faces and Fortunes (Goldshall Design Associates for Kimberly-Clark, US, 1960, 12:30 mins, Color, 16mm, From Chicago Film Archives)
Multiple Sidosis (Sid Laverents, US, 1977, 10 mins, Color, 35mm, From UCLA Film & Television Archive)
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Part of In Focus: The Role of Film Archives at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film screening!
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Lecture with Jeff Lambert, Executive Director of the National Film Preservation Foundation. Live music by Judith Rosenberg on piano.
The San Francisco–based National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) is dedicated to saving American films made outside the commercial sector. Since the NFPF’s inception in 1997, the organization has preserved more than 2,200 films. Executive director Jeff Lambert will offer an overview of the mission and activities of the NFPF and present a selection of films they have helped preserve, from silent-era social-issue films, documentaries, and short narratives to orphan films and artist-made independent productions.
The Breath of a Nation (Gregory La Cava, US, 1919, 6 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From George Eastman Museum)
Children Who Labor (Thomas Edison Company, US, 1912, 13 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From The Museum of Modern Art)
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, shot by G.W. Bitzer, US, 1905, 5 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From The Museum of Modern Art)
Lyman H. Howe’s Famous Ride on a Runaway Train (US, 1921, 6 mins, Silent with track, B&W, Digital)
Running Around San Francisco for an Education (C.R. Skinner, US, 1938, 0:90 mins, B&W, 35mm, BAMPFA collection)
Notes on the Port of St. Francis (Frank Stauffacher, US, 1951, 22 mins, B&W, 16mm, BAMPFA collection)
Faces and Fortunes (Goldshall Design Associates for Kimberly-Clark, US, 1960, 12:30 mins, Color, 16mm, From Chicago Film Archives)
Multiple Sidosis (Sid Laverents, US, 1977, 10 mins, Color, 35mm, From UCLA Film & Television Archive)
***
Part of In Focus: The Role of Film Archives at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film screening!
Lecture/Screening class (3 hours)
Lecture with Jeff Lambert, Executive Director of the National Film Preservation Foundation. Live music by Judith Rosenberg on piano.
The San Francisco–based National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) is dedicated to saving American films made outside the commercial sector. Since the NFPF’s inception in 1997, the organization has preserved more than 2,200 films. Executive director Jeff Lambert will offer an overview of the mission and activities of the NFPF and present a selection of films they have helped preserve, from silent-era social-issue films, documentaries, and short narratives to orphan films and artist-made independent productions.
The Breath of a Nation (Gregory La Cava, US, 1919, 6 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From George Eastman Museum)
Children Who Labor (Thomas Edison Company, US, 1912, 13 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From The Museum of Modern Art)
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, shot by G.W. Bitzer, US, 1905, 5 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From The Museum of Modern Art)
Lyman H. Howe’s Famous Ride on a Runaway Train (US, 1921, 6 mins, Silent with track, B&W, Digital)
Running Around San Francisco for an Education (C.R. Skinner, US, 1938, 0:90 mins, B&W, 35mm, BAMPFA collection)
Notes on the Port of St. Francis (Frank Stauffacher, US, 1951, 22 mins, B&W, 16mm, BAMPFA collection)
Faces and Fortunes (Goldshall Design Associates for Kimberly-Clark, US, 1960, 12:30 mins, Color, 16mm, From Chicago Film Archives)
Multiple Sidosis (Sid Laverents, US, 1977, 10 mins, Color, 35mm, From UCLA Film & Television Archive)
***
Part of In Focus: The Role of Film Archives at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film screening!
read more
Lecture with Jeff Lambert, Executive Director of the National Film Preservation Foundation. Live music by Judith Rosenberg on piano.
The San Francisco–based National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) is dedicated to saving American films made outside the commercial sector. Since the NFPF’s inception in 1997, the organization has preserved more than 2,200 films. Executive director Jeff Lambert will offer an overview of the mission and activities of the NFPF and present a selection of films they have helped preserve, from silent-era social-issue films, documentaries, and short narratives to orphan films and artist-made independent productions.
The Breath of a Nation (Gregory La Cava, US, 1919, 6 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From George Eastman Museum)
Children Who Labor (Thomas Edison Company, US, 1912, 13 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From The Museum of Modern Art)
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, shot by G.W. Bitzer, US, 1905, 5 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From The Museum of Modern Art)
Lyman H. Howe’s Famous Ride on a Runaway Train (US, 1921, 6 mins, Silent with track, B&W, Digital)
Running Around San Francisco for an Education (C.R. Skinner, US, 1938, 0:90 mins, B&W, 35mm, BAMPFA collection)
Notes on the Port of St. Francis (Frank Stauffacher, US, 1951, 22 mins, B&W, 16mm, BAMPFA collection)
Faces and Fortunes (Goldshall Design Associates for Kimberly-Clark, US, 1960, 12:30 mins, Color, 16mm, From Chicago Film Archives)
Multiple Sidosis (Sid Laverents, US, 1977, 10 mins, Color, 35mm, From UCLA Film & Television Archive)
***
Part of In Focus: The Role of Film Archives at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film screening!
show less
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