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Presenters: Serge Bromberg, Robert Byrne, Bryony Dixon, Jennifer Miko DETECTING SHERLOCK Preservationist and president of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival board of directors, Robert Byrne has been collaborating with the Cinémathèque Française on restoring William Gillette’s Sherlock … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2015

Presenters: Robert Byrne and Céline Ruivo Céline Ruivo discusses PHONO-CINÉMA-THÉÂTRE Curator of the film collection at the Cinémathèque française, Céline Ruivo has been instrumental in the restoration of the sound components of Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre, an attraction at the Paris Exposition … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2013

Featuring the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation On July 9, 1937, a storage building rented by the Fox Film Corporation in Little Ferry, New Jersey exploded, shooting flames higher than 100 feet into the air. The fire destroyed 42 individual vaults containing the majority of the … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2008

Presenters Patrick Loughney, George Eastman House Mike Mashon, The Library of Congress Rob Stone, UCLA Film and Television Archive In March 1898, the pamphlet Une nouvelle source de l’histoire: création d’un dépôt de cinématographie historique began to circulate around Paris. Written by … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2007

Special Guests Patrick Loughney (George Eastman House), Mike Mashon (Library of Congress), Mona Nagai (Pacific Film Archive), Peter Limberg (Haghefilm Conservation) The San Francisco Silent Film Festival operates on the principle that it’s imperative we engage with our heritage, and that one way … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2006