Re: Lost Films

From: Bruce Checefsky (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Oct 20 2008 - 17:16:40 PDT


yes. thank you.

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Bruce Checefsky | Director of Reinberger Galleries
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The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106

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From: Experimental Film Discussion List [email suppressed]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:51 AM
To: email suppressed
Subject: Re: Lost Films

Hi Bruce,

thanks a lot for your contribution. I would like to include the two films in our database and would quote you as our source. Hope that's ok!

Best regards from Berlin,
Christiane

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> Datum: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:50:05 -0400
> Von: Bruce Checefsky <email suppressed>
> An: email suppressed
> Betreff: Re: Lost Films

> Stefan and Franciszka Themerson films APTEKA (1930) and MOMENT MUSICAL
> (1933) were lost or destroyed. Both titles were experimental photogram films.
>
> Bruce Checefsky
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> Bruce Checefsky | Director of Reinberger Galleries
> Voice: 216-421-7407 | email suppressed
> The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106
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> From: Experimental Film Discussion List [email suppressed] On
> Behalf Of zryd [email suppressed]
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: Lost Films
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> Two of Hollis Frampton's earliest films were reported lost: he left
> _Clouds Like White Sheep_ (1962) on the New York subway and the lab
> lost _Obelisk Ampersand Encounter_ (1965). His accounts of these
> losses vary from interview to interview, but one account is in Scott
> MacDonald's A Critical Cinema, vol. 1, pp 26-27.
>
> Mike Zryd
> On 16-Oct-08, at 4:43 AM, Christiane Gruen wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am writing on behalf of the 'Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für
> > Film und Fernsehen in Berlin', where we are currently preparing
> > 'Lost Films', a web-based project that aims to provide a common
> > platform for users to share information concerning films known or
> > believed to be lost.
> >
> > The project went into operation in June last year, and will finish
> > in November, when the 'Lost Films' website officially goes online.
> > The first stage was a Wiki (http://www.lost-films.eu), that was
> > used to gather initial titles. Around 400 titles were submitted by
> > various specialists, from which 35 were then selected to launch the
> > new database.
> >
> > We are currently gathering, selecting and digitising documents
> > (scripts, stills, posters, press items, music scores, and film
> > clips, etc.) to illustrate the 35 chosen titles. At the same time,
> > we are inputting basic information concerning other lost films
> > compiled from various sources, to provide potential users with a
> > starting point for contributing knowledge and documents of their
> > own in future. Presently we have over 1300 titles.
> >
> > The entries mostly concentrate on narrative film. However, we would
> > very much like to expand our current entries to include more
> > experimental films.
> >
> > So if anybody knows of any experimental films, which are believed
> > lost, please post to the list or get in touch with us at the email
> > addresses listed below.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > The 'Lost Films' team
> > Jürgen Keiper (email suppressed), Christiane Grün
> > (email suppressed), Oliver Hanley ((address suppressed)-
> > kinemathek.de)
> >
> >
> > 'Lost Films' is a collaboration between the Deutsche Kinemathek,
> > the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung,
> > the centre nationale de la cinematographie, Filmarchiv Austria and
> > the Narodni Filmovy Archiv (Czech National Film Archive). It is
> > financed by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural
> > Organisation).
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> Michael Zryd
> Associate Professor
> York University, Department of Film, CFT 225, 4700 Keele St.
> Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 CANADA
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