Archive • August 2012

Only All-Native American Silent Rediscovered

posted August 29, 2012

Still from "Daughter of Dawn."

The Daughter of Dawn, perhaps the only all-Native American cast silent film ever made, has been rediscovered in “shambles” a century after it was made, restored, and now re-presented. The restoration had its world premiere in June at the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City, as Indian Country News reports. One of the earliest silent movies filmed ...

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The Reel Thing XXIX

posted August 16, 2012

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23-25 August 2012 Los Angeles Registration is still open, but space is limited, for The Reel Thing, one of the premier gatherings devoted to presenting the latest technologies in audiovisual restoration and preservation. It brings together laboratory technicians, archivists, new-media technologists, and preservationists. But the event has much to offer interested amateurs, too. Organized by the Association of ...

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Work Continues on a Film Trove in Jordan

posted August 14, 2012

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A few years ago, an artist living in Amman, Jordan, saved a trove of 881 film cans and their contents from a trash pile at the defunct Russian Cultural Center. The Royal Film Commission Jordan agreed to store them, and they sat in a garage on a busy market street, largely forgotten. Eventually they came to the ...

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