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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 13h

Not to distract from the excitement of Orphan Film Symposium proposals pouring in for 2026, but I do love this from Yuri Tsivian. The heart pounding at film history discoveries.

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 1d

Since federal employees can’t use their email during USG shutdown, we extend the deadline for folks at Smithsonian’s 20 units, LOC MBRS, NARA, et al.

Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 1d

Now is the time: propose !

Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Jun 21

CFP: Call for Proposals to present at the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium, "Crisis and Community,"
April 8-11, 2026, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 4d

Pictures not in New York.

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 8d

It’s translated as SHACKLED BY FILM.

A fragment survives. A dancer depicted on a poster comes alive and takes up with an artist. (Pygmalion) youtu.be/QB3PEQ-KRLo?...

Закованная фильмой (фрагмент) 1918 / Shackled by Film (fragment)

YouTube video by History Club

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 9d

1916 Griffith. 1918 Mayakovsky & Brik.

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 18d

The Skladanowsky 54mm film projector of 1895 use brass grommets to secure the sprocket holes (?).

tangiblemediacollection.com/artifacts/sk...

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 18d

Ohio State University + film preservation.

Reminder that proposals for the 2026 NYU Orphan Film Symposium in Columbus (April 8-11) are due OCTOBER 15. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

PHOTO
Robert Wagner, “Preservation of the Newsreel Films of President Harding,” (1969)

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 23d

Happy Birthday, Dad.

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 25d

What the National Board of Review was up to in 1916. Special screening to discuss if nudity can be artful enough to get a license to exhibit a commercial motion pictures. (NYPL collection)

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Sep 14

UWLibs Digital Collections: digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...
Sayre Collection, 24,000+ photos of theatrical performers 1900-1955. J. Willis Sayre: critic, journalist, promoter

7,622 photos tagged "Motion Pictures"
e.g., 1929, Geraldine Dvorak, Garbo's double

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Sep 12

Sure enough.

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Sep 11

Happy 90th, composer
Arvo Pärt

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Redirecting...

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Lordy, AI art is ugly. Dispiriting.

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes. Also true of the criminal killing of the boat from Venezuela.

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Serous W:
Which came first? The theme song or Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier”?

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Sep 6

Geo. Willeman sharing frames on FB from new LOC acquisition: hand-colored 35mm print of THE BURNING STABLE, an 1896 Edison film. b/w file from www.loc.gov/item/00694165

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Aug 30

of NOLA
vimeo.com/196979559

Termite Light by Courtney Egan and Helen Hill

A handmade homage to Stan Brakhage by Courtney Egan and Helen Hill. Made in New Orleans, 2003.

vimeo.com

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Aug 30

There are mean things happening in this land (as they sing in the 1940 film MEN AND DUST).

Nevertheless, I like what Jordan Peele did in NOPE (2022). Turn the mythologized origin story of Muybridge's horse pictures into a different origin story.

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Aug 29

Inviting applications for filmmakers to be recognized at the April 2026 symposium. Apply by October 16. Recipient/s present their work in person. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Aug 27

These be great. Was watching the Missouri girls basketball film today. I have some KC press coverage of the schoolhouse calisthenics. Includes some line drawings rendered from the AMB images. IIRC

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Aug 25

6pm Monday FILM FORUM

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Cavalier’s Dream (1898)
2025 music

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Aug 20

Uh-huh.

DGC Ontario @ontariodgc.bsky.social · Aug 20

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'

variety.com/2025/film/fe...

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Aug 20

1839 daguerreotype of Samuel F. B. Morse. By William Draper. 1839!

As NYU professors they had a portrait studio atop the building on Washington Square East.

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