Opening night kicks off in an appropriately eclectic fashion: an educational film about Ohio, a science research and German language instructional film featuring Ohio State faculty, and truly gruesome mid-20th century highway safety lectures and films 😱
#Orphans2026
The internet tells me this was 10 years ago today?! And one decade later #Orphans2026 at Ohio State is about to get underway! @orphanfilm.bsky.social
Blog post on another #Orphans2026 presentation next week! @orphanfilm.bsky.social Wua Ling Wu on Digitizing Portuguese Revolutionary Home Movies 🇵🇹 #nontheatricalfilm #homemovies
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🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 #Orphans2026
The fancy printed #Orphans2026 program just dropped. Here’s link to full 12-page color program 🔥 @orphanfilm.bsky.social
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Community and Crisis and Community. A teaser 25 secs. Héctor Morales. thx TAMIS John Morton for the beautiful color films from Clarksville bank, 1939. Found unid. recording of "Go Where I Send Thee." #orphans2026
🤩 Oh boy I’m extra excited about this one! #Orphans2026 🤩
And from a few days ago! Blog post by Gu Xue (FamilyLens) on his upcoming #Orphans2026 presentation about home movie archiving in contemporary China. He’ll present with Ann Lyuwenyu Zhang (NYU) + Dwight Swanson @orphanfilm.bsky.social
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Another #Orphans2026 preview just dropped. Andrea Callard & Ana Marie on video works from New York City artists’ group Collaborative Projects Inc. (COLAB) + Monday/Wednesday/Friday Video Club (MFW). Works preserved by XFR Collective. 📼 @orphanfilm.bsky.social
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Another preview for #Orphans2026. Owen Gottlieb will present his work on ‘orphaned television,’ specifically an episode of the series "Inside/Out” produced by the The Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT). The episode is held at Indiana U’s Moving Image Archive.
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ICYMI the @orphanfilm.bsky.social blog has been rolling out loads of essays about films featured in their upcoming symposium. Here’s one from a past SIG co-chair @martinlj.bsky.social about a 1960s work made by the North Carolina Film Board #Orphans2026
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Following @jenniferpete.bsky.social's lead, here’s my blog post on film I’m presenting in just over a week at the Orphan Film Symposium in Ohio. I’m on a mission for everyone in the world to see the joyous SUNDAY ON THE RIVER (1961) #Orphans2026 @orphanfilm.bsky.social
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A filmstrip called "A Slave Story" (1986). Christopher Harris live-narrates at #Orphans2026 April 8-11.
Photo: Tara Merenda Nelson (Visual Studies Workshop)
See this rediscovered Hollywood film, which survived only in small gauge and in another language. 99 years old. #Orphans2026 April 8-11.
Here's a blog post on a film I'll be presenting at the Orphan Film Symposium at the Wexner Center next month. Produced and distributed by the USDA Motion Picture Service: A FOREST AXIOM (1929). #Orphans2026 @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...
