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Archivists Fiction Extortion Fiction FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Large type books Motion picture film Preservation Motion picture film Preservation Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Photographs Conservation and restoration Women law students FictionSummary: "This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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Summary: Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist, who buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement. He then makes a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed. The LAPD wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing the precious old film.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ESTSummary: Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is the key question posed in Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, which features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guzmán, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Bela Lugosi's Frankenstein screen test puts Valentino in the picture for murder. Everyone knows the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. His portrayal is so famous that the play Arsenic and Old Lace was filled with Karloff/monster jokes--even when the part of the monstrously deformed villain was played by another actor. But before Karloff's memorable portrayal, another famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Hollywood film detective and film archivist Valentino becomes embroiled in the murder of a blackmailer in this wacky comedic murder romp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Preservation Pub. Co. 1993