Out of the Archives: Pittsburgh Revealed is a unique selection of moving images created in or about the Pittsburgh region from the 1920s through the 1980s. This program has been carefully assembled to prove that marginalized films and videos are as worthy of the big screen as any product from major Hollywood studios. Just a few highlights include a fantastic Kodachrome document of the 1947 May Day festivities at Chatham University, Tony Buba getting a tattoo, footage from the 1983 Memorial Day Gay Picnic, George Romero’s commercial for Cedar Point, a dual-projection experiment courtesy of Orgone Archive, and so much more. This celebration of the moving image is intended to honor the labor of our region’s archivists (professional and amateur), to recognize the makers of otherwise overlooked works, and to prompt the viewer to reconsider the very notion of the archive and what is worth saving. Curated and presented by Emily Davis and Steven Haines.
Participants include:
Chatham University Archives and Special Collections; Detre Library and Archives, Heinz History Center; Flea Market Films; Orgone Archive; Pittsburgh Queer History Project; Rivers of Steel; Tony Buba; University of Pittsburgh Archives and Special Collections; and Zoltan Weslowski.
Special thanks to The Media Preserve - Preservation Technologies whose financial support helped make this screening possible.