Hi everyone,

Good to know but based on Mihály's other posts to Frameworks he's based in
Hungary and a research visit to MoMA might not be possible.

Eric


On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 5:17 PM Seth Mitter <[email protected]> wrote:

> As Elizabeth mentioned, you can request a research screening of a 16mm
> print, on-site at MoMA in NYC, following instructions here:
> https://www.moma.org/research/study-centers/#film-study-center
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM Claire Henry <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Greg has also left the Warhol Museum. I believe he’s on this listserv,
>> but also know he’s busy this week. Try Matt Gray at the Warhol if you’d
>> like to rent a digital copy of the film. I’m not sure what their rental
>> policies are these days, but Matt will know. [email protected].
>>
>> Claire
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2026, at 5:22 PM, Eric Theise <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Geralyn Huxley left the Warhol Museum in 2020, according to her LinkedIn.
>> Greg Pierce, who may still read Frameworks, would be a better bet:
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM Adam Hyman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry I won’t give you an answer.  One issue is that the normal source
>>> was MoMA’s Circulating library, which is currently not available as they
>>> are not staffing a position to arrange the distribution of films.  Next
>>> best guess is the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, which might have it or might
>>> know a source.  Have you tried them?  Geralyn Huxley was their Curator of
>>> Film and Video, but it’s been a few years since I last contacted.
>>>
>>> Geralyn Huxley <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From: *Frameworks <[email protected]> on behalf of
>>> Mihály Horváth <[email protected]>
>>> *Reply-To: *Experimental Film Discussion List <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> *Date: *Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 1:56 PM
>>> *To: *Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]>
>>> *Subject: *[Frameworks] Mrs. Warhol (1966, Andy Warhol, originally: The
>>> George Hamilton Story)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Dear Frameworkers,
>>>
>>> Does anybody have any hints where I could find Andy Warhol's 1966
>>> film: Mrs. Warhol [The George Hamilton Story]? I would appreciate it very
>>> much.
>>>
>>> A very good collegue of mine - Zsolt K. Horváth, a brilliant social
>>> historian and critic - wrote an interesting little paragraph on Warhol's
>>> mum. I have copied a rough translation of his writing below, alongside the
>>> attachment of the frame he talks about, and the literature he refers to.
>>>
>>> /
>>>
>>> "JÚLIA ZAVACZKY, married name Júlia Varchola (Mikó, 1891 – Pittsburgh,
>>> Pennsylvania, 1972), who loved drawing angels and cats very much, and her
>>> son, Andy Warhol (1928–1987), already born in Pittsburgh, around 1947. Not
>>> incidentally, the latter also loved drawing angels and cats. Nevertheless,
>>> in my view the *punctum* of the image is the “little apron” and the
>>> “house dress,” which Júlia may well have brought with her from around
>>> Eperjes in 1921, when she followed her husband, Andrej Varchola
>>> (1889–1942), to the United States.
>>>
>>> Although in the photograph both appear silent, the question arises: in
>>> what language did they actually speak to one another? An article published
>>> in *Esquire* drew Andy’s artist friends’ attention to the creative
>>> possibilities of his mother Julia Varchola’s manner of speech. Andy Warhol,
>>> after all, cast his mother in the film *Mrs. Warhol* (originally *The
>>> George Hamilton Story*, 1966). Susan Pile, the film’s sound technician,
>>> wrote the following about this to one of her friends: “I was at Andy’s
>>> house this week (a truly rare privilege). Andy was shooting *The George
>>> Hamilton Story*, in which his mother played the lead role -this being
>>> her film acting debut. (…) Read this month’s issue of *Esquire*, which
>>> features an interview with Mrs. Warhola, who speaks Czechoslovak (!) with
>>> Andy and can communicate with others only in a confused English. A very
>>> sweet elderly lady.” In recent years, however, studies by Elaine Rusinko
>>> have pointed out that the Rusyn family quite obviously did not speak
>>> Czechoslovak (sic!), and that their English was not confused but rather a
>>> kind of mixed, emigrant language, in which English words were fitted with
>>> Slavic prepositions.
>>>
>>> When Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants arrived in America,” writes Elaine
>>> Rusinko, “lexical borrowings from English became integrated into the
>>> language, especially for concepts that did not exist in the old country.
>>> Expressions such as *rent platit* [pay rent], *lem pyat minute ride*
>>> [only a five-minute ride], and *James dostal cara* [James got a car]
>>> are convenient mixed expressions that also appear in Julia’s correspondence
>>> and are understood by bilingual speakers. English verbs were transformed by
>>> the addition of Rusyn morphological endings: *mam klinuvati apartment*
>>> [I have to clean the apartment], *vi ne feelujete dobri* [you don’t
>>> feel well]. As a result, this distinctive mixed Rusyn language became a
>>> source of shame and inferiority for immigrants, just as it had been in the
>>> homeland, where the prestige language was first Hungarian and later
>>> Slovak.” Otherwise, in the work of Imre Oravecz as well, the car in an
>>> American context is *káre*, and home is *ókontri*.
>>>
>>> /
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and best,
>>>
>>> Mihály
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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