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The NFPF teams with Silent Movie Day to screen THE UNKNOWN
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| Lon Chaney gives his most disarming performance in The Unknown (1927), screening at nine Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas on Sept. 30th. |
To celebrate silent film history and raise funds for film preservation, the National Film Preservation Foundation and Silent Movie Day are joining forces to present a special screening of Tod Browning’s macabre masterpiece, The Unknown. Featuring Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford, the film will screen on Saturday, September 30th—the day after Silent Movie Day—at nine Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas throughout the USA. Proceeds from the screening will go to support the NFPF’s preservation efforts. You can donate to the NFPF directly by clicking here.
Directed by horror legend Tod Browning and released in 1927, The Unknown is a highwater mark of Browning’s silent-era work and one of ten films he made with Lon Chaney. Set in … Read more
60 Orphan Films to be Preserved through the NFPF’s 2023 Grants
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| Pieces of a Dream (1974) will be preserved by Visual Comunications with NFPF support. |
The National Film Preservation Foundation is thrilled to announce the recipients of its 2023 federally funded grants, which will allow 31 institutions across 13 states and the District of Columbia to preserve 60 films from their collections. To see the full list of 2023 grant winners, click here.
A prominent connection between this year’s grant films is a focus on community, represented in diverse forms across the United States. Starting on the west coast, Eddie Wong’s Pieces of a Dream (1974), to be preserved by Visual Communications, tells the story of immigrant farm laborers who settled in the Sacramento River Delta town of Locke—a National Historic Landmark District—from the 1880s to 1970s. It examines the plight of Filipino farm workers stranded in rural … Read more
Four NFPF-Preserved Films Unspooling at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
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| Norma Shearer going mad in Man and Wife (1923), preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive. |
Next week the 26th installment of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival opens in San Francisco’s Castro Theatre. Four of the films have been preserved through grants administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
On Thursday, July 13, Doll Messengers of Friendship (1929) will screen during the free “Amazing Tales from the Archives” program. This short film commemorates a doll exchange between the U.S. and Japan that was initiated by the Committee on World Friendship Among Children. 58 dolls commissioned by the Japanese government from master doll makers toured the U.S. and were acclaimed as works of art. Doll Messengers of Friendship was screened at the local doll exchange ceremonies that comprised the tour. The surviving 9-minute … Read more
"The Oath of the Sword" Screens at the Academy Museum
On Sunday, May 28 the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will screen The Oath of the Sword (1914), a three-reel silent drama preserved with National Film Preservation Foundation support. Made by the Japanese Film Company and featuring an all-Japanese leading cast, The Oath of the Sword is the earliest known Asian American film production. It is an important and rare surviving exemplar of an under-explored part of early Asian American film history: movies made by and for Japanese Americans.
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| The Oath of the Sword (1914) preserved by the Japanese American National Museum and George Eastman Museum with NFPF support. |
The Oath of the Sword tells the tragic story of lovers separated when an ambitious young man leaves his beloved in Japan to study abroad at the University of California, Berkeley. It contrasts the morals of traditional Japanese society with the forces of … Read more
Register for a 2023 NFPF Grant by March 24th
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Friday, March 24th is the registration deadline for the National Film Preservation Foundation’s federally funded grant program, made possible by the Library of Congress Sound Recording and Film Preservation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2016.
The NFPF offers two types of federal cash grants that support the preservation of historically and culturally significant American films. Completed applications will be due Friday, April 28th.
Basic Preservation Grants fund laboratory work to create preservation masters and access copies, and are open to nonprofit and public institutions in the United States that provide public access to their film collections. The awards range from $1,000 to $20,000.
Matching Grants help experienced institutions undertake larger-scale projects. Applicants may request cash stipends of between $20,001 and $75,000 to fund laboratory work. They must “match” the NFPF … Read more