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 >>> >>> <image001.png> >>> >>> >>> <image002.png> >>> >>> -- Frameworks mailing list [email protected] >>> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >>> -- >>> Frameworks mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> >>> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >>> >> -- >> Frameworks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >> >> -- >> Frameworks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >> > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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