Potential Research Report subjects, Fall 2008

To be shown at Orphans 7: 20-mins film Another Pilgrim (1968). Fales had a VHS copy, which they put on DigiBeta. But then in the last few months parts of the original elements of the 16mm film have been turning up in the unprocessed private collection of the film's director Elaine Summers. She's wanting to give it to whoever will take it in. There are other films in the Elaine Summers collection that would be suitable research projects for MIAP. ANOTHER PILGRIM though is significant and interesting enough that I know I want to try to get it shown/preserved for Orphans 7. Brent Phillips has some contact info for the estate of the film's copyright holder, a minister affiliated with Judson. All of the footage was shot around or in Judson. So great WS Park stuff and such. Most of Elaine's films are stored around Bway@Spring St.
Trilogy of super-8 films by Ericka Beckman from 1978-81 from Anthology. These will probably be preserved in Bill Brand's Spring 2009 film preservation course.

We Imitate; We Break Up, 1978/S8mm/color/sound/30 minutes. Produced, directed, animated and edited by Ericka Beckman. Music and lyrics in collaboration with Brooke Halpin. Produced with an award from the New York Creative Service Foundation (CAPS Fund).
The Broken Rule, 1979/S8mm/color/sound/30 minutes. Produced, directed, animated and edited by Ericka Beckman. Music and lyrics in collaboration with Brooke Halpin. Distributed by British Film Institute and Canyon Cinema
Out of Hand. 1981/S8mm/color/sound/30 minutes. Produced, directed, animated and edited by Ericka Beckman. Music and lyrics in collaboration with Brooke Halpin. Produced with an award from the Beards Fund. Distributed by Light Cone, Paris

Frank Moore and Jim Self's The Miller's Wife. It is an unfinished 16mm work by the creators of Beehive. Fales has all production elements for this title. [Brent Phillips]
Some material from George Eastman House, without much identification [Dan has these]

"Garbo's first film", 1920? (VHS copy)
How a Cowboy Makes a Lariat (silent, 28mm preserved onto 35mm, WQuicktime copy)
Beauty Spots in America (silent, 28mm preserved onto 35mm, WQuicktime copy)
Ailment Prevention (silent, 28mm preserved onto 35mm, WQuicktime copy)
In the Shadows of the Pyramids (silent, 28mm preserved onto 35mm, WQuicktime copy)
Concrete Industry (silent, 28mm preserved onto 35mm, WQuicktime copy)

The Impressionable Years [aka The Republic of Children] (1952, Peter Elgar, for the US State Dept) 30 and 40 min. editions. Narrated
by Henry Fonda. Featuring, in a rare extended version, Carl Sandburg (singing kind of a creepy song). [Elena Rossi-Snook & Dan Streible]
footage of Camp Tamiment (the summer resort that supported the Rand School, which is the institution from which the Tamiment Library originated). Two reels of 16mm b/w silent film, each ca. 10 minutes long, together comprising one complete 20+ minute film entitled, Tales From Tamiment. This is a film celebrating Camp Tamiment (the resort founded by New York City's Rand School of Social Science--a pioneer workers self-education school established by members of the Socialist Party). It features lots of energetic young adults clowning and
enjoying strenuous outdoor activities, and includes a few glimpses of Rand School elders. (this may already be researched enough) [Erica Gottfried]
Texas Archive of the Moving Image has a variety of unidentified films. For example, some fight films that you could work with Dan S. on. Some Jack Johnson training scene that needs to be identified, and 2 films ca. 1900 that Dan recognized as Lubin fake fight films, but have not identified them specifically yet.
George Willeman of LC Culpeper reported acquisition of a collection that include one of those 1930s Melton Barker itinerant films (KIDNAPPERS FOIL) that had not been identified before. Shot in Tennessee.