AMS 2009 Calendar

The 2009 calendar now sold out. Check again next year. This year, the funds raised will support the Silent Film Preservation Fellowship Fund, to encourage and support the next generation of film preservationists (details here).

The Silent Movies Benefit Calendar features silent film artwork and birthdays of silent-era film stars and personalities, as well as notable marriages, deaths, film openings, and other significant dates. The artwork ranges from promotional stills for major Hollywood releases to rare star mug shots and informal pictures of stars from Clara Bow to Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

This calendar is done as a benefit project, with pictures and dates submitted by posters and readers of the alt.movies.silent newsgroup. Total net proceeds (after printing expenses) are used to benefit silent film restoration.

The 2008 calendar funds supported the video restoration of Bardelys the Magnificent.
The 2007 calendar funds were donated to the George Eastman House.
The 2006 calendar benefitted Film Preservation Associates.
The 2004 alt.movies.silent calendar raised $1442.06, enough money to fund two projects. We funded a print of This Way Out (1916), which features a young Babe Hardy among others, which made the film's preservation by the Library of Congress a priority. We also funded copying of some unique tinted nitrate outtakes from The Thief of Bagdad that were deteriorating.
The 2003 calendar made possible a donation of $671.07 to the UCLA Film and Television Archive, earmarked for preservation activities in silent film.