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The NFPF is the nonprofit organization created by Congress to preserve and provide access to America's film heritage. Focusing on orphan films that would not survive without public support, the NFPF has preserved more than 2850 films in all 50 states.

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A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922) is now streaming on the NFPF site with new music by Michael Mortilla. Starring Corinne Griffith, this snowbound tale was preserved photochemically by @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social and is available for home viewing for the first time.

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15.10.2025 17:57 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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The NFPF and @Film_Foundation are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 Avant-Garde Masters Grants. Eight films by Heather McAdams, Michael Mideke's PHI TEXTURE plus 7 more, and Kathleen Laughlin's SUSAN THROUGH CORN.

Follow the link for more.
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08.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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The NFPF and @Film_Foundation are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 Avant-Garde Masters Grants. Eight films by Heather McAdams, Michael Mideke's PHI TEXTURE plus 7 more, and Kathleen Laughlin's SUSAN THROUGH CORN.

Follow the link for more.
www.filmpreservation.org/blog/article...

08.10.2025 01:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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It's Silent Movie Day! To celebrate, the NFPF has added 5 new films to its screening room including POISONED PARADISE: THE FORBIDDEN STORY OF MONTE CARLO (1924) starring Clara Bow, preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Read more and get access here:
www.filmpreservation.org/blog/article...

29.09.2025 13:01 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
A 1945 version of Snow White with 5 women seated around a woman on a throne.

A 1945 version of Snow White with 5 women seated around a woman on a throne.

Today the NFPF announced the 81 films and collections to be preserved in 2025, including an amateur version of Snow White (1945) by Knoxville, TN filmmaker Mildred Keister Dennis. Read more here: www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2025/8/5/81-films-to-be-preserved-by-2025-nfpf-preservation-grants

05.08.2025 18:21 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2
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The NFPF is thrilled to be streaming William S. Hart in THE BARGAIN (1914) with a new score by
@silentfilmmusic.bsky.social. Thanks to the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress for restoring this seminal Western.

www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2025/6/...

18.06.2025 13:59 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Thanks to a National Film Preservation Foundation Basic Grant, we are thrilled to have been able to preserve 5 more films from our archives. Subjects include a 1936 Department of Tropical Research expedition to what was then British Guiana...
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09.01.2025 16:18 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Twelve films preserved by the NFPF will be presented at MoMA's amazing To Save and Project festival including Maurice Tourneur's THE WHITE HEATHER (1919).

www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2025/1/...

09.01.2025 18:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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