Steve Fesenmaier writes: \”My friend Les Blank is speaking at this great workshop on orphan films. All librarians should know about this subject – since the visual culture dominates our world even more than computers!
http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium/program.html\”
Steve Fesenmaier writes: \”My friend Les Blank is speaking at this great workshop on orphan films. All librarians should know about this subject – since the visual culture dominates our world even more than computers!
http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium/program.html\”
From the site:
What is an orphan film?
Narrowly defined, it\’s a motion picture abandoned by its owner or caretaker. More generally, the term refers to all manner of films outside of the commercial mainstream: public domain materials, home movies, outtakes, unreleased films, industrial and educational movies, independent documentaries, ethnographic films, newsreels, censored material, underground works, experimental pieces, silent-era productions, stock footage, found footage, medical films, kinescopes, small- and unusual-gauge films, amateur productions, surveillance footage, test reels, government films, advertisements, sponsored films, student works, and sundry other ephemeral pieces of celluloid (or paper or glass or tape or . . . ).
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