The IUB Libraries Media Services, Life Sciences, and the William & Gayle Cook Music Library invite you to attend Orphans in Space: Forgotten Films from the Final Frontier. Join us on October 28, 5:30pm-9:00pm, Hazelbaker Lecture Hall, Room E159 in the Herman B Wells Library for an exciting evening of space exploration. What is an orphan film? An orphan film is generally a film that has been abandoned by its filmmaker, or production company. Originally born in 1999 at the University of South Carolina, the Orphan Film Symposium moved to New York University in 2006, and has since spread its global wings to include a symposium held here at Indiana University in 2013.
The Orphan Film Symposium exists to gather “scholars, archivists, media artists, curators, preservationists, librarians, collectors, distributors, documentarians, students, researchers, musicians, and others to saving, studying, and screening all manner of neglected moving image artifacts.” And just like watching an Ed Wood movie, we think you will have a blast viewing these forgotten low-budget science, and science-fiction films which include visually artistic and creative stock footage.
Houston, We Have Ignition!
ROCKET SCIENCE
5:30 – 5:40p Meteorites (1947) Pavel Klushantsev
5:40 – 5:55p The Big Bounce (1960) Jerry Fairbanks
5:55 – 6:03p Chimp Recovery (1961) RCA Service Company
6:03 – 6:33p Project Apollo (1968) Ed Emshwiller
6:33 – 6:50p Teenage Cosmonauts (1979) Igor Rodachenko
6:50 – 6:58p Zenith Star: Experiment in Space (1987) Martin Marieta
6:58 – 7:12p …These Blazeing Starrs! (2011) Deborah Stratman
7:12 – 7:20 Space Break
Includes Artistic Archival Footage!
IMAGINED GALAXIES
7:20 – 7:37p A Trip to the Planets (192?) Prelinger Collection, Library of Congress
7:37 – 7:48p Beyond the Moon (1960-62) R. E. Barnes
7:48 – 7:54p The Flatt & Scruggs Grand Ole Opry Show (1961) Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum
7:54 – 7:59p Carillon (Christmas) Parade (1968) USC Moving Image Research Collections
7:59 – 8:04p Astrovac: Zero Gravity Personal Body Wash Unit (1970) Fairchild Republic
8:04 – 8:46p Men in Orbit (1979) NYU Fales Library & Special Collections
Booklet available with filmmaker information, and synopsis.
Light snacks, and covered drinks permitted.
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