San Francisco Film Preserve
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SFFP's mission is to restore, preserve, and provide access to the world’s cinematic heritage, ensuring that films—of all genres and eras—remain accessible for future generations.
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Join by special guest host Jared Stearns, local author and Communications Manager at the Tenderloin Museum.
📅 Friday, November 21, 2025 • 12–1 PM PST
🎟️ FREE • Register here: filmpreserve.org/eve...
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📅 Friday, November 21, 2025 • 12–1 PM PST
🎟️ FREE • Register here: filmpreserve.org/eve...
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Online with SFFP — Silent Era Film Exchanges of the Tenderloin - San Francisco Film Preserve
During the silent era, the Tenderloin neighborhood in the heart of San Francisco was a thriving hub of film culture, and was home to many film exchanges. These exchanges provided […]
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November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Join by special guest host Jared Stearns, local author and Communications Manager at the Tenderloin Museum.
📅 Friday, November 21, 2025 • 12–1 PM PST
🎟️ FREE • Register here: filmpreserve.org/eve...
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📅 Friday, November 21, 2025 • 12–1 PM PST
🎟️ FREE • Register here: filmpreserve.org/eve...
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“Silent Era Film Exchanges of the Tenderloin” dives into the bustling exchanges that supplied every Market Street theater — and yes, there are some scandalous tales hiding in the shadows of the district’s past.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“Silent Era Film Exchanges of the Tenderloin” dives into the bustling exchanges that supplied every Market Street theater — and yes, there are some scandalous tales hiding in the shadows of the district’s past.
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🗓️ Saturday, January 17, 2026 | 10:45am–12:45pm (local time)
🎟️ TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: nsff.nl/en/soleil-et...
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🎟️ TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: nsff.nl/en/soleil-et...
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Soleil et ombre - Nederlands Silent Film Festival
De hoofdfilm, Soleil et ombre, is een absoluut pareltje van de Franse superster Musidora.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🗓️ Saturday, January 17, 2026 | 10:45am–12:45pm (local time)
🎟️ TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: nsff.nl/en/soleil-et...
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🎟️ TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: nsff.nl/en/soleil-et...
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🎬 JANE’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1915), a spirited short about a young woman determined to choose her own path.
🎶 Live musical accompaniment by Daan van den Hurk (piano) & Tijn van der Sanden (guitar).
📍 Natlab – Podiumzaal, Kastanjelaan 500, Eindhoven, 5616 LZ Netherlands
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🎶 Live musical accompaniment by Daan van den Hurk (piano) & Tijn van der Sanden (guitar).
📍 Natlab – Podiumzaal, Kastanjelaan 500, Eindhoven, 5616 LZ Netherlands
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November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🎬 JANE’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1915), a spirited short about a young woman determined to choose her own path.
🎶 Live musical accompaniment by Daan van den Hurk (piano) & Tijn van der Sanden (guitar).
📍 Natlab – Podiumzaal, Kastanjelaan 500, Eindhoven, 5616 LZ Netherlands
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🎶 Live musical accompaniment by Daan van den Hurk (piano) & Tijn van der Sanden (guitar).
📍 Natlab – Podiumzaal, Kastanjelaan 500, Eindhoven, 5616 LZ Netherlands
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Her talk is followed by two restorations she worked on, both from the collection of the San Francisco Film Preserve:
🎬 SOLEIL ET OMBRE (1922), Musidora’s hauntingly beautiful tale of love, betrayal, and revenge, filmed in the sun-drenched landscapes of Andalusia.
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🎬 SOLEIL ET OMBRE (1922), Musidora’s hauntingly beautiful tale of love, betrayal, and revenge, filmed in the sun-drenched landscapes of Andalusia.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Her talk is followed by two restorations she worked on, both from the collection of the San Francisco Film Preserve:
🎬 SOLEIL ET OMBRE (1922), Musidora’s hauntingly beautiful tale of love, betrayal, and revenge, filmed in the sun-drenched landscapes of Andalusia.
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🎬 SOLEIL ET OMBRE (1922), Musidora’s hauntingly beautiful tale of love, betrayal, and revenge, filmed in the sun-drenched landscapes of Andalusia.
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Reposted by San Francisco Film Preserve
To show what restoration actually looks like in practice, we’re including clips and photos from one of our major 2025 projects: THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928) 🍃✨
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
To show what restoration actually looks like in practice, we’re including clips and photos from one of our major 2025 projects: THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928) 🍃✨
Your support makes restorations like THE GARDEN OF EDEN possible. Help us give more films the second life they deserve — every dollar truly makes a difference.
DONATE: filmpreserve.org/donate/
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #FilmRestoration #SilentFilm #TheGardenOfEden #PreserveCinema #HelpSaveCinema
DONATE: filmpreserve.org/donate/
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #FilmRestoration #SilentFilm #TheGardenOfEden #PreserveCinema #HelpSaveCinema
Donate - San Francisco Film Preserve
Support Our Mission Your contribution will support not only full scale restorations of films in need of preservation, but also live events, presentations, screenings and online accessibility. No goods...
filmpreserve.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Your support makes restorations like THE GARDEN OF EDEN possible. Help us give more films the second life they deserve — every dollar truly makes a difference.
DONATE: filmpreserve.org/donate/
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #FilmRestoration #SilentFilm #TheGardenOfEden #PreserveCinema #HelpSaveCinema
DONATE: filmpreserve.org/donate/
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #FilmRestoration #SilentFilm #TheGardenOfEden #PreserveCinema #HelpSaveCinema
🧽 DIGITAL RESTORATION — Frame-by-frame removal of dirt, dust, scratches, and damage
🎚️ GRADING — Working with expert graders to restore accurate luminance and color
🎚️ GRADING — Working with expert graders to restore accurate luminance and color
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🧽 DIGITAL RESTORATION — Frame-by-frame removal of dirt, dust, scratches, and damage
🎚️ GRADING — Working with expert graders to restore accurate luminance and color
🎚️ GRADING — Working with expert graders to restore accurate luminance and color
Here’s what goes into every SFFP restoration:
🔍 RESEARCH — Identifying the best surviving materials and exploring the film’s history
📡 SCANNING — High-resolution scans of selected elements
📝 SHOTLISTING — Tracking every shot to ensure the strongest source is used at each moment
🔍 RESEARCH — Identifying the best surviving materials and exploring the film’s history
📡 SCANNING — High-resolution scans of selected elements
📝 SHOTLISTING — Tracking every shot to ensure the strongest source is used at each moment
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Here’s what goes into every SFFP restoration:
🔍 RESEARCH — Identifying the best surviving materials and exploring the film’s history
📡 SCANNING — High-resolution scans of selected elements
📝 SHOTLISTING — Tracking every shot to ensure the strongest source is used at each moment
🔍 RESEARCH — Identifying the best surviving materials and exploring the film’s history
📡 SCANNING — High-resolution scans of selected elements
📝 SHOTLISTING — Tracking every shot to ensure the strongest source is used at each moment
Every restoration presents its own challenges — some straightforward, others incredibly complex — but they all follow the same essential steps to return a film to the screen as close as possible to how it appeared when audiences first saw it nearly a century ago.
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Every restoration presents its own challenges — some straightforward, others incredibly complex — but they all follow the same essential steps to return a film to the screen as close as possible to how it appeared when audiences first saw it nearly a century ago.
To show what restoration actually looks like in practice, we’re including clips and photos from one of our major 2025 projects: THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928) 🍃✨
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
To show what restoration actually looks like in practice, we’re including clips and photos from one of our major 2025 projects: THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928) 🍃✨
📅 Friday, November 21 | 12:00 PM PST
💻 REGISTER: filmpreserve.org/eve...
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #OnlineWithSFFP #VirtualEvent #SilentEra #FilmHistory #Tenderloin #SanFrancisco #TenderloinMuseum #FilmSky
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💻 REGISTER: filmpreserve.org/eve...
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #OnlineWithSFFP #VirtualEvent #SilentEra #FilmHistory #Tenderloin #SanFrancisco #TenderloinMuseum #FilmSky
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Online with SFFP — Silent Era Film Exchanges of the Tenderloin - San Francisco Film Preserve
During the silent era, the Tenderloin neighborhood in the heart of San Francisco was a thriving hub of film culture, and was home to many film exchanges. These exchanges provided […]
filmpreserve.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
📅 Friday, November 21 | 12:00 PM PST
💻 REGISTER: filmpreserve.org/eve...
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #OnlineWithSFFP #VirtualEvent #SilentEra #FilmHistory #Tenderloin #SanFrancisco #TenderloinMuseum #FilmSky
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💻 REGISTER: filmpreserve.org/eve...
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #OnlineWithSFFP #VirtualEvent #SilentEra #FilmHistory #Tenderloin #SanFrancisco #TenderloinMuseum #FilmSky
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SFFP welcomes special guest host Jared Stearns, local author and Communications Manager at the Tenderloin Museum, to explore this fascinating corner of film history, weaving in the Tenderloin’s vibrant — and sometimes scandalous — past.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
SFFP welcomes special guest host Jared Stearns, local author and Communications Manager at the Tenderloin Museum, to explore this fascinating corner of film history, weaving in the Tenderloin’s vibrant — and sometimes scandalous — past.
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In the early 1900s, the Tenderloin was home to bustling film exchanges that kept Market Street’s theaters stocked with the latest reels, making the neighborhood a vital part of San Francisco’s film industry.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
In the early 1900s, the Tenderloin was home to bustling film exchanges that kept Market Street’s theaters stocked with the latest reels, making the neighborhood a vital part of San Francisco’s film industry.
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🎟️ Get tickets now: roxie.com/film/garra...
#SilentFilm #FilmRestoration #ColombianCinema #GarrasDeOro #WorldCinema #LiveScore #FilmHistory #FilmSky
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#SilentFilm #FilmRestoration #ColombianCinema #GarrasDeOro #WorldCinema #LiveScore #FilmHistory #FilmSky
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Garras de oro (The Dawn of Justice)
WEST COAST PREMIERE Considered lost until the 1980s, Garras de oro (The Dawn of Justice) is regarded as World Cinema’s first explicitly anti-imperialist film. The film follows a newspaper editorialist…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
🎟️ Get tickets now: roxie.com/film/garra...
#SilentFilm #FilmRestoration #ColombianCinema #GarrasDeOro #WorldCinema #LiveScore #FilmHistory #FilmSky
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#SilentFilm #FilmRestoration #ColombianCinema #GarrasDeOro #WorldCinema #LiveScore #FilmHistory #FilmSky
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Don’t miss this rare screening of a film once thought lost to time — restored by Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano and co-presented by #SanFranciscoFilmPreserve.
📍 #RoxieTheater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco
🎬 Presented as part of CiNEOLA’s COLOMBIA ON FILM
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📍 #RoxieTheater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco
🎬 Presented as part of CiNEOLA’s COLOMBIA ON FILM
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November 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Don’t miss this rare screening of a film once thought lost to time — restored by Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano and co-presented by #SanFranciscoFilmPreserve.
📍 #RoxieTheater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco
🎬 Presented as part of CiNEOLA’s COLOMBIA ON FILM
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📍 #RoxieTheater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco
🎬 Presented as part of CiNEOLA’s COLOMBIA ON FILM
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🎶 Featuring a live original score by local ensemble Nobozos
🎙️ Followed by a panel discussion with Kathy Rose O’Regan (San Francisco Film Preserve), Alex Feliciano Mejia (SFSU), and Héctor Hoyos (Stanford) on the film’s history and restoration.
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🎙️ Followed by a panel discussion with Kathy Rose O’Regan (San Francisco Film Preserve), Alex Feliciano Mejia (SFSU), and Héctor Hoyos (Stanford) on the film’s history and restoration.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
🎶 Featuring a live original score by local ensemble Nobozos
🎙️ Followed by a panel discussion with Kathy Rose O’Regan (San Francisco Film Preserve), Alex Feliciano Mejia (SFSU), and Héctor Hoyos (Stanford) on the film’s history and restoration.
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🎙️ Followed by a panel discussion with Kathy Rose O’Regan (San Francisco Film Preserve), Alex Feliciano Mejia (SFSU), and Héctor Hoyos (Stanford) on the film’s history and restoration.
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Widely regarded as World Cinema’s first explicitly anti-imperialist film, this Colombian landmark takes aim at U.S. interventionism through a daring critique of Theodore Roosevelt’s role in Panama’s separation.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Widely regarded as World Cinema’s first explicitly anti-imperialist film, this Colombian landmark takes aim at U.S. interventionism through a daring critique of Theodore Roosevelt’s role in Panama’s separation.
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$75 = 1 minute of a restored 35mm print
Every dollar helps — no matter the amount. Time waits for no film, and with your support, we can continue to restore, preserve, and share groundbreaking works of cinema.
filmpreserve.org/don...
Thank you for keeping film alive!
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Every dollar helps — no matter the amount. Time waits for no film, and with your support, we can continue to restore, preserve, and share groundbreaking works of cinema.
filmpreserve.org/don...
Thank you for keeping film alive!
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Donate - San Francisco Film Preserve
Support Our Mission Your contribution will support not only full scale restorations of films in need of preservation, but also live events, presentations, screenings and online accessibility. No goods or services […]
filmpreserve.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
$75 = 1 minute of a restored 35mm print
Every dollar helps — no matter the amount. Time waits for no film, and with your support, we can continue to restore, preserve, and share groundbreaking works of cinema.
filmpreserve.org/don...
Thank you for keeping film alive!
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Every dollar helps — no matter the amount. Time waits for no film, and with your support, we can continue to restore, preserve, and share groundbreaking works of cinema.
filmpreserve.org/don...
Thank you for keeping film alive!
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