FYI: Travel and Mobility, Film Symposium 25-27 July

From: karan [[email protected]]

Visions of Travel and Mobility
14th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium
July 25-27, 2013 Bucksport, Maine

REGISTER  http://oldfilm.org/content/-symposium

Thursday, July 25 evening
7 pm: Oliver Gaycken—O’Farrell Fellow Research Presentation

Friday, July 26
8:30-9:15—Coffee, pastries and registration

9:15-9:45—Introduction and announcements

9:45-10:30
Stan Midgley: Thousands of feet and thousands of miles
Trisha Lendo, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Los Angeles, CA

10:30-11:15
The Armchair Traveller: The Travelogues of Charles Joseph Chislett
Sue Howard,Yorkshire Film Archive/Northeast Film Archive, UK

11:15-12:00
Burton Holmes Travel Films
Ilona Auth, Selznick School of Film Preservation, Rochester, NY

12:00-1:00--LUNCH
1:00-1:45
Shooting the Sportsmen’s Paradise: The Role of Early Motion Pictures in the New
Brunswick Travel and Tourism Industry
Scott Preston, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB

1:45-2:30
A Sporting Life — on Film: Hunting and Fishing in New England Shown at Boston’s
Sportsmen’s Show in 1905
Paul Spehr, Fairfield, PA

2:30-3:15
From the Town to the Country: Rituals of Working Class Associational Life and
Salford Lads Club Camp Films
Richard MacDonald, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Saturday, July 27
8:30-9:00—Coffee and pastries

9:00-9:45
Oregonian Harry Randall Spanish Civil War films
Kimberly Tarr, New York University, NY

9:45-10:30
To the Fair, To the Future: Travel & Film at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair
Amanda Murray, Wicked Delicate Films, New York, NY

10:30-11:15
Engineering the Female Traveler: How to Pack a Suitcase and the Curious Case of the
Shell Oil’s ‘Carol Lane’
Melissa Dollman, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and
Devin Orgeron, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

11:15-12:00
Travel and Mobility as Cultural Diplomacy: The USIA and Government Films Around
the World
Brian Real, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

12:00-1:00 LUNCH

1:00-1:45
Hell Bound Train
Brian Graney, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1:45-2:30
The Curious Case of the Hidden Images from Luxembourg’s National Home Movie
Archive: A Travelogue
Françoise Poos, Independent Curator, Luxembourg

2:30-3:15
Magic Mushroom Mountain Movie
John Klacsmann, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, NY

6:00pm
Symposium Banquet (not confirmed)

QUESTIONS TO:
[email protected]
Mark Neumann
Professor
School of Communication
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011


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