To celebrate the release of their new book Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States, editors Devin and Marsha Orgeron and Dan Streible offer a sampling of 16mm prints from the golden age of educational filmmaking. By watching many of these works now, we see films that...
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Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Films Worth Seeing
The 7th Orphan Film Symposium
When nitrate film begins to decompose, the pictures it holds lose their form, dissolving into a gauzy chemical wash that dances on the surface of the projection. Your eyes flicker between the amorphous globules at the fore and the crystalline, precisely defined image beneath...
Crate Digging: The Orphan Film Symposium
When the Orphan Film Symposium assembles in April for its seventh biennial meeting, it will review more than 40 hours of footage over the course of four days. The OFS plays host to films and videos that have lost their contextual home: newsreel outtakes, educational and industrial films,...
