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Preserving Our Film Heritage : [excerpt]

Item number (ISN):

96971

Series title:

Epcot Magazine

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1983/1984

Item number (ISN):

96971

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

HILLIER PRODUCTIONS

Accession:

1984-0103

Media:

Video

Production date:

1983/1984

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Television magazine program hosted by Michael Young and Deborah Raffin. Following a general introduction to the show, Young presents an item entitled PRESERVING OUR FILM HERITAGE. Part one takes a look at the 1982 discovery of over 500 reels of nitrate film, preserved for some 80 years beneath a layer of permafrost, in Dawson City, Yukon. Clips of the Yukon Gold Rush (1890s) and of the historic film find are followed by excerpts from some of the restored movies: BEN HUR (1907) and HALFBREED (1915) starring Douglas Fairbanks. At the American Film Institute, Audrey Kupferberg, Assistant Director of Film Preservation, talks about the Dawson City find and the task of identifying and cataloguing archival film. Part two deals with the subject of film preservation generally and the techniques used by the major Hollywood companies. Murray Glass, a private film collector, gives his views on film preservation; Samuel Goldwyn Jr., son of the famous producer, and Tom Bodley, in charge of the Goldwyn Company archives, discuss policy and techniques of preservation; Earle Weldon of the Disney Studios explains the special handling of printing elements in his organization; and Martin Scorsese, film director, talks about the use of videotape for preservation copies and the complexities of long-term storage of film. Excerpts from the following films are included in the program: THE PASSING OF THE OKLAHOMA OURLAW (1915); GHOST OF SLUMBER MOUNTAIN (1919); an early example of stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien; THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946); the Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer musical WHOOPEE; one of the first talkie movies; and WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.

Language:

English

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1. The program is incomplete.
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Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8403-0026
V1 8403-0025

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