Adopt an Orphaned Film
I've opened a new site. Its goal is to use existing digital and internet technologies to preserve and share films that have so far been overlooked, inaccessible, or both. The site's premise is that these films are orphans, and in need of a loving family to adopt and care for them.
The somewhat arbitrary line that I've drawn between orphan and non-orphan is 50 votes at the IMDB—although some of the films will have no votes, and others won't even have an IMDB listing. In most cases, I'll also try to provide some clue as to the quality of the digital copy and, if the film isn't in English, the status of subtitles.
You can adopt an orphan film by downloading, sharing, watching, and writing about it. To search and browse the film orphanage, point your browsers to:
Thanks. I hope you find something you like. Oh, and I've added the Films Without Families feed to the navigation of this page, so that the five latest orphaned titles are always on display to your right.
6 comments:
This is brilliant! Good luck with the project. (I'm already bittorrenting the Watkins film.)
Do you know of a decent eMule client for Mac OS?
Love orphan films. Wonderful idea, this site of yours.
Q: You write that "Its goal is to use ... technologies to preserve and share films ..." How do you mean 'preserve'? Preserve the memory and awareness of? Or literally preserve the material object (i.e., what is normally meant by film preservation?). We need both, obviously.
Dan Streible
www.nyu.edu/orphanfilms
www.sc.edu/filmsymposium
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http://orphanfilmsymposium.blogspot.com
Yeah this is a great project! And your selction is excellent so far.
Thanks!
:)
darren: amule and MLDonkey are the two Mac OS clients that I'm most familiar with.
dan: I mean preserve the memory of the films. I'd love to do something to preserve the films themselves, too, but it's beyond my means! So, I'm mainly aiming for preservation of memory (maybe the better term is "awareness"?), in the hopes that a digital approximation of a film will at least save something.
Thanks again for the encouragment.
Hi,
excellent site, and very good purpose ...
i just take your adress on my gtalk, cause i know a place where we classified and preserve emule link for years ... Maybe we can talk about ;-)
This is an excellent idea. Film blogs are ideal for spreading awareness of films we might overlook. The hard part will be selecting one film.
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