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Abbott and Costello

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite

Abominable Snowman, The

Abrams, J. J.

Abrams, Tom

Academy Awards Illustrated (Osborne)

Academy Film Archive (Hollywood)

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Ackerman, Forry

Adventures of Busty Brown, The

Adventures of Robin Hood, The

Adventures of Superboy, The (TV)

Adventures of Superman, The (TV)

Agony of Love, The

Air America

Airplane!

Airport

A is for Atom

Alamo, The

Aldrich, Robert

“Alice’s Restaurant”

All About Eve

Allied Artists

Altman, Robert

Amarcord

America

American Cinematheque: Dennis Bartok’s affiliation with; history of; special events at; testimonial by Billy Wilder on behalf of. See also Egyptian Theatre (Hollywood)

American Graffiti

American in Paris, An

American-International Pictures, Inc. (AIP)

American International Pictures, Inc. v. Foreman

American Zoetrope

Amos ’n Andy Show, The (TV)

Anastasia

And God Created Woman

Andrews, Julie

“Animaland” series

animation. See also cartoons

Annecy International Animated Film Festival

Another Fine Mess

Ansco Color

Antonioni, Michelangelo

Antos, Julian; observations about collecting and screening films; preservation of Corn’s-a-Poppin film. See also Hall, Rebecca (Becca)

Apatow, Judd

A*P*E* (Nuevo King Kong)

Applause

archives. See film archives, nonprofit

Argento, Dario

Arkush, Allan

Arnaz, Desi

Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (TV)

Astaire, Fred

Atherton, Ray

Atlas Films

Atwill, Lionel

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Avildsen, John

Bacharach, Burt

Ball, Lucille

Bambi

Banton, Travis

Bardot, Brigitte

Barkleys of Broadway, The

Barnes, Dave

Barry, Gene

Barrymore, Lionel

Bartok, Dennis: American Cinematheque and; motivation for writing A Thousand Cuts

Basbanes, Nicholas

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Bava, Mario

Bay, Michael

Beardsley, Alfred (Al); animosity of Brian LeGrady toward; dealings with O. J. Simpson; Gilboy film depot and; MPAA sting operation against; as projectionist and film dealer; rivalry with Craig Call; skirmishes with the law; Sunset Screening Room and; unscrupulous dealings of

Beast at Bay, The

Beatles, The

Beck, Calvin Thomas

Behind the Green Door

Bell & Howell Mark 300 (projector)

Ben-Dov, Ya’acov

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Ben-Hur

Benny, Jack

“Betamax case”

Big House U.S.A.

Big Reel, The: as collector’s marketplace; FBI and; history of; MPAA and; as opportunity for rip-offs

Billy Wilder Theater (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

Birds, The

Birth of a Nation, The

Black Beauty

Blackhawk Films

Blankenship, Phil; dedication to exploitation and horror films; early love for cinema; observations about collecting and viewing films; rare finds of

Bless Its Pointed Little Head (Jefferson Airplane)

Bloch, Robert

Blood and Black Lace

Blood Feast

blue-boxing

Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll

blue-track Technicolor

Blu-rays

Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus

Boetticher, Budd

Bonded Films

Bonnitt, Ted

Borgnine, Ernest

Born Yesterday

Borzage, Dan

Bosman Jansen, Jan Willem

Bouras, James

Boyer, Charles

Boyle, Danny

Bradbury, Ray

Brave One, The

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Bride of Frankenstein

Bringing Up Baby

British Film Institute (BFI)

Bromberg, Serge; collaboration with Eric Lange; creation of “accidental” 3-D shorts; discovery of lost Méliès films; film collection of (with Eric Lange); L’Enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot (with Ruxandra Medrea); Le Voyage extraordinaire (with Eric Lange); observations about digital formats; “the one that got away” from; passion for preserving and popularizing film; respect from other collectors; Retour de Flamme presentations; as a storyteller

Bronson, Charles

Brooks, Kevin

Brooks, Louise

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Brown, Chester (Chet)

Brown, Johnny Mack

Browning, Tod

Brownlow, Kevin; Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite; Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow; David Lean: A Biography; early experience with film; Hollywood; It Happened Here; Lifetime Achievement Award (honorary Oscar); observations about digital formats (with Patrick Stanbury); The Parade’s Gone By; Patrick Stanbury, producing partner of; restoration of Napoleon; stories of dishonest collectors; story about Have Some Onions, They’ll Make You Fat; Winstanley

Brynner, Yul

Buddhism, Nichiren

Budget Films

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Burnett, Carol

Burton, Tim

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

Bwana Devil

Caine, Michael

Call, Craig

Camille

Candler, Kingsley

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (Schumpeter)

Capitolfest (New York)

Captain Blood

carbon arc

Carlton Cinema (South Jersey)

Carné, Marcel

Carol Burnett Show, The (TV)

Carolco

Caron, Lisa

Carousel

Cartoon Factory (French TV program)

cartoons. See also animation

Case of Lena Smith, The

Castle, Eugene W.

Castle Films

Castle of Frankenstein (magazine)

Cat and the Canary, The

Ça tourne Bromby (French TV program)

Cellulo (French TV program)

Centurians of Rome

César Award (France)

Chaney, Lon, Sr.

Chaplin, Charlie

Charisse, Cyd

Charles Theater (New York)

Chase, Charley

Chertok, Harvey

Children of Paradise

Chinese Theatre (Los Angeles)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Cine Art Films

CineColor

Cinecon Classic Film Festival

Cinefamily (Los Angeles)

CinemaScope. See also Technicolor (IB Tech)

Cinémathèque Française

Cineteca di Bologna

Circus World

Citizen Kane

City Lights

Clark and McCullough

Classic Images (magazine)

Cleopatra

Cleveland Law Review

Cliffhanger

Clip Joint

CNC Archives (France)

Colbert, Claudette

collectors, film. See film collectors

Colman, Ronald

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

comedies

comics

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Consolidated Film Industries (CFI)

Contino, Dick

Conversation, The

Copner, Michael

Coppola, Francis Ford

copyright infringement: dupes and; film collectors and; first sale doctrine and; Jeff Joseph’s imprisonment and; limits on public domain and. See also FBI; legal action against film collectors; Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Copywrong (Foreman)

Corman, Roger

Corn’s-a-Poppin

Crazy Wild and Crazy

“creative destruction”

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Crichton, Michael

Crime of Monsieur Lange, The

Cromwell, Richard

Crosby, Bing

Cross and the Switchblade, The

CSI (TV)

Cukor, George

Cult Movies (magazine)

Curtiz, Michael

Daddy-O

Daiei Studios

Dante, Joe; as director; friendship and collaboration with Jon Davison; Gremlins 1 and 2; Hollywood Boulevard; The Howling; Matinee; Movie Orgy, The; New York 1960s film subculture and; observations on death of film; passion for 35mm film; Piranha; sense of duty to preserve and share film

Darkman

David, Hal

David Lean: A Biography (Brownlow)

Davis, Bette

Davis, Carl

Davis, Sammy, Jr.

Davison, Jon; Airplane!; early start with film collecting; friendship and collaboration with Joe Dante; Hollywood Boulevard; New York 1960s film subculture and; optimism about film collecting; Piranha; as producer; as projectionist for Fillmore East; RoboCop; sense of duty to preserve film; Starship Troopers

Dawn of the Dead

Day in the Country, A

Day of the Triffids, The

Day the Earth Caught Fire, The

DCP (Digital Cinema Package)

Deadly Weapons

Dead Poets Society

Dean, James

Deep Red

Deep Throat

Defilers, The

De Havilland, Olivia

De Laurentiis, Dino

DeMille, Cecil B.

Dentist, The

De Palma, Brian

DePietro, Bob

Derby Decade

De Renzy, Alex

Der Janus-Kopf

Deseret Books

Desilu Studios

Destination Moon

Devil at 4 O’Clock, The

Devil in Miss Jones, The

Dick Van Dyke Show, The (TV)

Dietrich, Marlene

Digital Cinema Package (DCP)

digital formats: benefits of; Blu-rays; Digital Cinema Package (DCP); DVDs; VCRs; VHS tape. See also film to digital formats, transition of

DiMaggio, Joe

Disney. See Walt Disney Productions

Doc Films (University of Chicago)

Doctor Who (TV)

Doll, Harry

Double Agent 73

Double Indemnity

Douglas, Kirk

Dracula

Dream Theater (Monterey)

drive-in films

Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors

Dr. Zhivago

Dumbo

Dunnahoo, Tom

Dunning, George

dupes: consequences of selling; definition of; moneymaker for dealers; reduction

DVDs

Dyck, Peter; description of House of Clocks of; as electrician in Hollywood; FBI bust of; friendship with/estrangement from Rik Lueras; observations about loss of community; passion for film collecting

Eagle, The

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

East Coast Movielab (New York City)

Eastin, Kent D.

Eastmancolor

Eastman Kodak

Eastwood, Clint

Edgar Church/Mile High Collection (comics)

Edwards, Blake

Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora

Egyptian Theatre (Hollywood): history of; projectionists at; screenings at; size of screen. See also American Cinematheque

8 1/2

8mm format

Eisenstein, Sergei

EK print

Elephant’s Nightmare, An

Elliott, Ken

Ellroy, James

Emil and the Detectives

Encore Theater (Los Angeles)

Entertainment Tonight (TV)

Epstein, Jean

Epstein, Mary

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Ethan Allen Story, The (TV pilot)

Etting, Ruth

Everson, William K.

Exorcist, The

exploitation films: David F. Friedman and; Mike Vraney and; in need of preservation; Phil Blankenship and; Sinister Cinema

Eyes Without a Face

Face with Two Left Feet, The

fading, film

Fairbairn, Ned

Fairfax Theater

Famous Monsters (magazine)

Fantasia

Fatal Glass of Beer, The

Fawcett, Farrah

FBI: Chet Brown, figurehead for; Evan H. Foreman’s warnings about; focus on video and digital piracy; Jeff Joseph’s bust by; Ken Kramer’s avoidance of; Kingsley Candler and; overview of fight with film collectors; Peter Dyck’s bust by; Ray Atherton and; Rock Hudson’s defense against; Roddy McDowall’s bust by; Tom Dunnahoo’s bust by; use of The Big Reel in investigations by; Woody Wise and. See also copyright infringement; legal action against film collectors; Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

features: end of production in 35mm; last Technicolor made in U.S.; prices of; problems with incomplete; 3-D; TV programming and

Federici, Louie

Few Good Men, A

Fields, W. C.

Fillmore East

film archives, nonprofit: as best option for preservation; international; in United States

film collectors: difficulties with “estate planning”; dishonesty among; as endangered species; golden age for; joking description of; lack of cultural diversity among; marriages of; movie references as language for; “once a collector, always a collector” and; “one that got away” from; personal histories of (overview); rare finds by (overview); sense of community among. See also film collectors, screenings for friends and family by; “film palaces” of collectors; legal action against film collectors; and specific collectors

film collectors, marketing tools for. See magazines, film; 35mm Film Forum

film collectors, on transition to digital: Hillary Charles; Joe Dante; Jon Davison; Julian Antos/Rebecca Hall; Ken Kramer; Kevin Brownlow/Patrick Stanbury; Lee Sanders; Leonard Maltin; Matt Spero; Michael McKay; Michael Schleiger; Mike Hyatt; Mike Williamson; Paul Rayton; Peter Dyck; Phil Blankenship; Robert Osborne; Ronnie James; Serge Bromberg. See also film to digital formats, transition of

film collectors, screenings for friends and family by: in decline; in homes; in neighborhood; Tuesday Night Film Club. See also “film palaces” of collectors

film formats: 8mm; 9.5mm; 16mm (see 16mm format); 17.5mm; 35mm (see 35mm format); 70mm; benefits of. See also CinemaScope; film stock; film to digital formats, transition of; projectors

film iconography

“film palaces” of collectors: Ken Kramer (Clip Joint); Matt Spero; Peter Dyck (House of Clocks); Rik Lueras (Trophy Room); Tony Turano

film preservation: archival quality of film and; Joe Dante on; Jon Davison on; Kevin Brownlow/Patrick Stanbury on; Lee Sanders on; Mike Hyatt on; Mike Vraney on; Serge Bromberg on; types of films most in need of. See also film restoration; vinegar syndrome

film prints: definition of; EK; fading of; features (see features); newsreels; odors of; original; shorts (see shorts); storing, problems with; trailers (see trailers). See also film formats; film preservation; film restoration; film stock; film to digital formats, transition of; Technicolor (IB Tech)

film prints, prices: for 3-D; for 16mm; for 35mm; in the 1960s; in the 1970s; drop in; FBI estimate of collection of Roddy McDowall; of features; with trades for; for trailers; for worthless

film rentals: 16mm film and; businesses; in South African black market

film restoration: Jeff Joseph and; Julian Antos/Rebecca Hall and; Kevin Brownlow/Patrick Stanbury and; manual removal of dirt in; Mike Hyatt and; rejuvenation and; Robert Harris and; Serge Bromberg and. See also film preservation

film rot. See vinegar syndrome

Films Inc.

film stock: expense of; LLP; safety. See also film formats; film prints; nitrate film

film to digital formats, transition of: benefits of digital; benefits of film; effect on film preservation; impact on projectionists; TV stations and. See also digital formats; film collectors, on transition to digital; film formats

Film Transport Company (FTC)

Filmtreat

Finch, Peter

Fine Arts Theatre (Beverly Hills)

first sale doctrine

Fisher, Terence

Fishers of the Isle (Pêcheur d’Islande)

Flash Gordon

Fleischer brothers

Flesh Merchant, The

Flower Drum Song

Flynn, Errol

Forbidden Flesh

Ford, Francis

Ford, John

Foreign Affair, A

Foreman, Evan H.; American International Pictures, Inc. v. Foreman; Copywrong; fight for rights of collectors; 16mm Filmland catalogue; testimony before US Senate Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights

Forty Carats

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The

Four Star Playhouse (TV)

Four Star Theatre (Los Angeles)

four-track mag. See 35mm four-track magnetic stereo sound

Fox (Salinas theater)

Fox Movietone

Foxx, Redd

Fraker, William A.

Francis, Freddie

Franju, Georges

Frankenstein

Frankenstein Created Woman

Freaks

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th Pt. 4

Friedman, David F.

Fromong, Bruce

Fuji

Fuller, Samuel

Furmanek, Bob

Gable, Clark

Gaines Sixteen Films Co.

Gallant Blade, The

Gamma People, The

Gance, Abel

Garbo, Greta

Garland, Judy

Gatlif, Tony

General, The

Gentle Madness, A (Basbanes)

Giant

Gilboy film depot’s abandoned prints; Al Beardsley’s purchase of; Brian LeGrady’s purchase of; events leading to; Jeff Joseph’s purchase of; Paul Rayton’s treasures from; Randy Miller’s purchase of

Gilda

Gish, Dorothy

Gish, Lillian

Glumov’s Diary

Goddard, Paulette

Godfather, The

Godfather: Part II, The

Gods Must Be Crazy, The

Gog

Goldberg, Larry

Goldberg film cans

Golden Age of Comedy, The

Gone with the Wind

Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The

Gordon, Bernard (pseud. Raymond T. Marcus)

Graff, Herb

Graham, Bill

Granger, Stewart

Grant, Cary

Grateful Dead

Grauman, Sid

Great Dictator, The

Great Movie Shorts, The (Maltin)

Greed

Greene, Graham

Greene, Ray

Gremlins 1 and 2

Griffith, D. W.

grindhouse films. See exploitation films

Grossman, David

Guest, Val

Guild Theater (New York)

Guthrie, Arlo

Gypsy

Hackman, Gene

Haggard, Mark

Hall, Arch, Jr.

Hall, Rebecca (Becca); observations about collecting and screening films; preservation of Corn’s-a-Poppin film. See also Antos, Julian

Hammer Films

Hand, David

Hand, The

Hard Day’s Night, A

Harlow, Jean

Harrington, Curtis

Harris, Robert

Hart to Hart (TV)

Have Some Onions, They’ll Make You Fat

Hawks, Howard

Hawks, Mike

Hayworth, Rita

Hefner, Hugh

Henenlotter, Frank

Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Hepburn, Audrey

Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun

Hercules in the Haunted World

Herrmann, Bernard

Hess, Hillary; friendship with John Stegmoyer; love for screenings with friends; observations about gender, film as “time machine”; taste for weird films

Heston, Charlton

High Noon

History of the Blue Movie, A

Hitchcock, Alfred

Hobson’s Choice

Hollywood

Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Reporter (newspaper)

Hollywood studios. See also Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA); and specific studios

Home Alone

home collectors market

Hook

Hope, Bob

horror films: Castle Films and; Mario Bava and; posters for; screenings of; Sinister Cinema and; Universal and

Hound of the Baskervilles, The

House (TV)

House I Live In, The

House of Clocks

House of Psychotic Women

House of Wax

House on Haunted Hill, The

House Un-American Activities Committee

How Green Was My Valley

Howling, The

How to Marry a Millionaire

Hudson, Rochelle

Hudson, Rock

Huff, Theodore

Hufstedler, Shirley M.

Hunter, Jeffrey

Hunter, Rodger

Hunter, Ross

Hunter, Tim

Hurkos, Peter

Hurry Hurry

Hyatt, Mike; as practitioner of Nichiren Buddhism; as restorer of The Day of the Triffids; sense of responsibility to preserve and share films

I

IB Technicolor. See Technicolor (IB Tech)

iconography, film

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

Images Film Archive

Imitation of Life

Immoral Mr. Teas, The

Incredibly Strange Film Festival

Incredibly Strange Films (Vale)

Ingram, Rex

Innocents, The

International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)

Intruder, The

Ironside (TV)

I Shot Jesse James

It Happened Here

It Takes a Thief (TV)

Jackson, Michael

Jacobs, Arthur P.

James, Ronnie; “dead” collection of vintage TV prints and; on the death of film as “creative destruction”; early love for television; rare finds of

James Bond movies

JAN projectors

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Jaws

Jefferson Airplane

Jones, Chuck

Jones, J. R.

Joseph, Jeff; collections of trailers and 3-D; early brush with FBI; early love for movies; FBI bust of; as film dealer; Gilboy film depot and; joking description of film collectors by; marriage to Lauren; motivation of rescuing “orphan” prints; rare finds of; rivalry/friendship with Ken Kramer; selling of massive print collection; 35mm Film Forum and

Judex

Jung, Gunther

Jury, The

Justice Department

Karloff, Boris

Kearns, Marty

Keaton, Buster

Keel, Howard

Keeping Fit

Kellerman, Sally

Kelly, Gene

Ken Films

Kerr, Deborah

Kerrigan, J. Warren

Key, Donald

Killiam, Paul

Kinematograph Renters Society (KRS)

King, Susan

King and I, The

King Kong

King Solomon’s Mines

Kinoton (projector)

Kiss Me Deadly

Kneale, Nigel

Kodak

Kovacs, Ernie

Kramer, Ken; comic timing of; description of Clip Joint of; difficult personal life; as film dealer and collector; illegal business deals of; lost treasures of; observations on the death of film; rare finds of; rivalry/friendship with Jeff Joseph; Tuesday Night Film Club with

Krasnow, Bob

Landis, James

Lang, Fritz

Langdon, Harry

Lange, Eric

Langlois, Henri

laserdisc systems

Lassie Come Home

L’Atalante

Latcho Drom

Laughton, Charles

Laurel, Stan

Laurel and Hardy

LaVey, Anton

Lavi, Daliah

L’Avventura

Law of the Range

Lawrence of Arabia

Lean, David

Ledoux, Jacques

Lee, Christopher

legal action against film collectors: Al Beardsley; effect on collectors and studios; in England; Evan H. Foreman; first sale doctrine and; Jeff Joseph; overview of; Peter Dyck; Ray Atherton; Roddy McDowall; Tom Dunnahoo; Woody Wise. See also copyright infringement; FBI; Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

LeGrady, Brian

Leigh, Vivien

Leisen, Mitchell

Le Lion des Mogols

L’Enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot

Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide (Maltin)

Les Diaboliques

Les Miserables

Let It Be

Le Voyage extraordinaire

Lewis, Herschell Gordon

Lion King, The

Lippert, Robert L.

Liquid Sky

Little Rascals

Lobster Films

Lombard, Carole

London After Midnight

Long Jeanne Silver

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

Los Angeles Times

Lost Horizon

Lost Weekend, The

Loti, Pierre

LPP (low-fade positive print)

Lubitsch, Ernst

Lucas, George

Lueras, Rik; as artist; film collection of; friendship with/estrangement from Peter Dyck; importance of family to; trophy room/projection booth of; use of lemon oil on prints

Lugosi, Bela

Lupino, Ida

Lydick, Lawrence

Madame Butterfly

Mad Butcher, The

Mad Executioners, The

Madigan, Dan

Mad Movies (British TV)

magazines, film. See also Big Reel, The;Castle of Frankenstein (magazine); 16mm Filmland (Foreman)

Magnificent Ambersons, The

Mahon, Barry

Maltin, Leonard; career of; early influences on; as film collector; as film lover; friendship with William K. Everson; Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide; marriage and family of; Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Movie Comedy Teams; observations on the death of film

Man from S.N.A.T.C.H., The

Mann, Anthony

Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The

Marcus, Raymond T. See Gordon, Bernard

Marcus Welby (TV)

Mare Nostrum

Marion, Frances

marketing tools for collectors. See magazines, film; 35mm Film Forum

Mark of the Vampire

marriages of film collectors

Martin, Dick

Martin and Lewis

Marvin, Lee

Marx Brothers

M.A.S.H.

Matinee

Mau Mau Sex Sex

Max Fleischer cartoons

May, Richard

Mayer, Louis B.

Mayo, Virginia

Maze, The

McCarthy, Todd

McDowall, Roddy; confession to FBI by; as film collector and occasional dealer; as film star; legal action against

McKay, Michael; corruption among projectionists and; early life in film subculture; end of career as “death by a thousand cuts”; loss of mother

McNaughton, John

“Me and the Ghost Upstairs” (Astaire-Pan duet)

Meatcleaver Massacre

Meca Twin (Seattle)

Medrea, Ruxandra

Meeker, David

Mehrens, William A.

Méliès, Georges

Melville, Herman

Menell, Milton

Men in War

Menjou, Adolphe

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (MGM)

Metropolis

Meyer, Russ

Miami Exposé

Mickey Mouse Club, The (TV)

Miller, Randy

Million Dollar Movie (TV)

Mitry, Jean

Mobile, Alabama

Moby-Dick (Melville)

Modern Times

Mogull, Charlie

Mogull’s Film Rental Library

Mollo, Andrew

Monkhouse, Bob

Monroe, Marilyn

Monster of Camp Sunshine, The

Montalban, Ricardo

Monte Walsh

Moore, Kieron

Moreno, Antonio

Motiograph projector

Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA): Craig Call’s cooperation with; Evan H. Foreman’s fight against; focus on video and digital piracy; overview of fight with film collectors; sting against Al Beardsley. See also copyright infringement; FBI; Hollywood studios; legal action against film collectors

Movie Channel, The

Movie Collector’s World (magazine)

Movie Comedy Teams (Maltin)

Movie Orgy, The

movie posters. See posters, movie

MPAA. See Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Mr. Dynamite

Mr. Peters’ Pets

Mr. Roberts

Muller, Eddie

Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen, Vols. 1 and 2

Murnau, F. W.

Museum of Modern Art (New York City)

musicals

Music Box Theatre (Chicago)

Music Corporation of America (MCA)

Music Man, The

My Fair Lady

My Friend Flicka

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Napoleon

Nashville

National Film Preservation Foundation

National Film Service (NFS)

National Film Theatre (Britain)

Neame, Ronald

Nelson, J. G.

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Nevins, Francis M.

New Beverly (Los Angeles)

New Paris Follies (Seattle)

New School of Social Research (New York City)

Newsom, Ted

newsreels

Newton, Steve

New World Pictures

Nichiren Buddhism

Nicholas, Fayard

Night at the Opera, A

Night in the Show, A

Nightmare on Elm Street

Night of the Comet

Night of the Living Dead

nitrate film: rare finds of movies on; rarity of prints on; screening of movies using; stock, history of. See also safety film stock

Niven, David

Nolan, Christopher

Nolan, Lloyd

Northwest Chicago Film Society

Nosferatu

Novak, Harry H.

Novak, Kim

nudies. See also exploitation films

NYU Film School

Odor in the Court

Officer 444

Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons (Maltin)

Ogburn, Tom

Oklahoma!

O’Leary, Liam

Oliver!

Oliver Twist

Once Upon a Mattress

1:42:08

one-sheet posters

One Week

Open All Night

Orpheum (Los Angeles)

Osborne, Robert; Academy Awards Illustrated; friendship with Rock Hudson; life in Hollywood film-collector circles; observations on lack of access to film prints

Oscars

Oswald Rabbit

Our Gang comedies

Packard, David

Packard Humanities Institute

Pal, George

Pan, Hermes

Parade

Parade’s Gone By, The (Brownlow)

Paradise Theater (Los Angeles)

Paramount Studios

Parker, Eleanor

Parker, Jeff

Pat Fitzgerald & Company (PR firm)

Penny Serenade

Peros, Steven

Phantom of the Opera, The

Phantom of the Paradise

Philips Broadcast of 1938

Photoplay Productions

Picfair (Los Angeles cinema)

Pickford, Mary

Picnic

Pie-Eyed

Pillow Talk

Pips from Pittsburgh, The

piracy, digital and video

piracy, film. See copyright infringement; FBI; legal action against film collectors; Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Piranha

Pix Fix

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes (TV)

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Platoon

Playboy Mansion

Poitier, Sidney

Porgy and Bess

porn film business. See also exploitation films

Poseidon Adventure, The

posters, movie: artists and; collectors and; Ken Kramer and; one-sheet; prices of

Powell, Dick

Powell & Pressburger

Prairie Home Companion, A

Predator

Predator 2

Preminger, Otto

preservation of film prints. See film preservation

Pretty Maids All in a Row

previews. See trailers

Price, Vincent

prices of film prints. See film prints, prices

Princess Bride, The

Prince Valiant

projection booths: noteworthy examples of; as remnants of past; terminology for

projectionists: corruption among; impact of early changes on; impact of transition from film to digital on; Lee Sanders; Matt Spero; Michael McKay; Michael Schleiger; Paul Rayton; techniques of; terminology of

Projectionists’ Union

projectors; 9.5 Pathéscope Ace; 16mm; 17.5mm; 35mm; 35mm Simplex E; 70mm; Bell & Howell Mark 300; difficulty in running; digital; dual setups for 3-D; JAN (Joint Army Navy); Kinoton; lack of market for; repairing of

Proud Ones, The

Psycho (Bloch)

Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film (Wheldon)

public domain. See also copyright infringement

Punswick, Mark

Race Night

Radio City Music Hall

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Rathbone, Basil

Rayton, Paul; observations about transition of film to digital; rare finds of; time at USC Film School

Reason, Rhodes

Rebel Without a Cause

Red Shoes, The

reduction dupes

Reed, Sir Carol

Reeves, George

Reiner, Carl

rejuvenation of film prints

Renoir, Jean

rentals, film. See film rentals

Republic Pictures

restoration of film prints. See film restoration

Retour de Flamme

Revenge of Frankenstein, The

Reynolds, Burt

Reynolds, Debbie

Rhapsody of Steel

Ribald Adventures of Robin Hood, The

Riccio, Thomas

Richard, Jacques

Richard III

Riefenstahl, Leni

Rieger, Jack

Right to Life, The

Rio Bravo

Rising of the Moon, The

River of No Return, The

River’s Edge

RKO Pictures (RKO)

Roach, Hal

Robe, The

Robinson, Ann

RoboCop

Rocket to the Stars (TV)

Rocky V

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Rogers, Ginger

Rogers, Kenny

Rogers, Will

Rogers, Will (journalist)

Rogue Song, The

Roman Holiday

Rome Capitol Theatre (New York)

Romero, George

Rosemary’s Baby

Rosen, Irv

Rosenfeld, Richard

Roth, George

Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (TV)

Rozanski, Chuck

Rubalcava, Dominick

Runaway Daughters (TV)

Ryan, Robert

SabuCat

Sack, Alfred

Sack Amusements (Texas)

Sadist, The

safety film stock. See also nitrate film

Samuel Rosen & Sons

Sanders, Lee; desire to preserve film; end of career as projectionist; observations about film preservation; passion for collecting and sharing films

Sarris, Andrew

Satanic Rites of Dracula, The

Saturn 3

Schaffner, Franklin J.

Schindler’s List

Schleiger, Michael; early start as projectionist; observations about transition of film to digital; treasures found and lost

Schlesinger, Michael

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

School for Scandal, The

Schumpeter, Joseph

sci-fi films

Scorsese, Martin

Scott, Allan

Scott, Janette

Scott, Leroy

screenings for friends and family. See film collectors, screenings for friends and family by; “film palaces” of collectors

Scum of the Earth

Second Chorus

Secret Agent Fireball

Sekely, Steve

Select Films Library (Manhattan)

Sennett, Mack

Sensurround

7th Voyage of Sinbad, The

70mm format

Seven Year Itch, The

sexploitation films. See also exploitation films

Sextette

Shadow of a Doubt

Shank, Wes

Shatner, William

She Done Him Wrong

Sheen, Charlie

She Freak

Sheil, Tom

Shepard, David

Shepard, Richard

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Shoebox (Seattle)

shorts: cartoons; distributors for; Great Movie Shorts, The (Maltin); Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons (Maltin); in need of preservation; newsreels; rare finds of; at rock concerts; 3-D; TV programming and

silent films: distributors for; Kevin Brownlow and; screenings of; Serge Bromberg and; shift to sound from

Silents Please (TV)

Simpson, O. J.

Sinatra, Frank

Sinatra, Frank, Jr.

Singin’ in the Rain

Sinister Cinema (label)

16mm Filmland (Foreman)

16mm format: distributors for; drawbacks of; joys of; prices of; projectors for; venues (and lack of) for

Skull, The

Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine, A

Smith, Mike

Smoking Gun, The (website)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Something of Value

Something Weird Video

Sonney, Dan

Sontag, Susan

Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.

Sound of Music, The

soundtracks. See also 35mm four-track magnetic stereo sound

South African black market

Southern, Terry

Space Thing

Spartacus

Speak of the Devil

Spero, Matt; miniature movie palace of; observations about film vs. digital; pivotal moments as a projectionist

Spielberg, Steven

Springtime in Palestine

Stack, Robert

Stanbury, Patrick

Star Is Born, A

Starship Troopers

Star Trek

Star Trek (TV)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Wars

Stegmoyer, John

Stein, Jules

Steiner, Max

Stereo Laffs

Stern, Seymour

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Sting, The

stock. See film stock; nitrate film

St. Petersburg Times

Strange As It Seems series

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The (Stevenson)

Strange Confessions

Strickfaden, Kenneth

studios. See Hollywood studios; Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA); and specific studios

Sturges, Preston

Sultan Theatre (Seattle)

Summer and Smoke

Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Screening Room

Sunshine Makers, The

Superman

Supreme Court (U.S.) decisions

Suspiria

Sutherland Studios

Swanson, Gloria

Swing Time

Swiss Family Robinson

Sword and the Rose, The

Sylvia Theater (Franconia, Virginia)

Taffel, Stan

Tale of Two Cities, A

Tall T, The

Tann, Georgia

Tarantino, Quentin

Tarzan

Tate, Sharon

Technicolor (IB Tech): blue-track; end of; film fading and; noteworthy prints using; rare examples of; valuable qualities of; value to collectors. See also CinemaScope

Telluride Film Festival

Ten Commandments, The

Tenebrae

Tennessee Children’s Home Society

Terminator 2

Theakston, Jack; dumpster diving for films with father; rare finds of; ruse with one frame from London After Midnight; 35mm Film Forum and

Théâtre du Nord-Ouest

Theodore Huff Memorial Film Society

Theologo, Peter

Thief of Bagdad, The

35mm Film Forum

35mm format: archival quality of; collectors’ “crown jewels” in; collectors’ rare finds in; difficulties of collecting in England; end of distribution of; overview of; prices of; projectors for; trailers using; venues (and lack of) for

35mm four-track magnetic stereo sound: on film prints; overview of; for restoration; for showcasing. See also soundtracks

35mm projectors. See projectors; 35mm format

39 Steps, The

Thomas, Daniel Holcombe

“thousand cuts, a”

Thoroughly Modern Millie

3-D: “accidental” Méliès short in; collection of Jeff Joseph; in digital; dual-projector systems and; rare finds of; 3-D Film Archive

Thunderball

Thunderbird Films

Thunder in the Pines

THX 1138

Tibbett, Lawrence

Tiffany (Los Angeles)

Time Machine, The

Time Out London (website)

Timpson, Anthony

Tiomkin, Dimitri

Todd, Thelma

Toll of the Sea, The

Tomacote

Top Hat

Torgan, Sherman

Tormé, Mel

Tourneur, Maurice

trailers: compilations of; Jeff Joseph, collection of; licensing of; 35mm

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

“Treasures from a Chest” (Méliès films)

Trip to the Moon, A

Triumph of the Will

Trivette, Don

Trouble in Paradise

Tuesday Night Film Club

Turano, Tony; empathy for Roddy McDowall; movie memorabilia of; observations about being gay and a lover of film; penchant for singing songs from musicals; rare finds of; stories real or imagined of

Turner Classic Movie Festival

Turner Classic Movies

TV Movies (Maltin)

TV prints: legal action and; Leonard Maltin’s TV Movies and; replacement by videotape; reworking of; Ronnie James’ collection of

TV programming

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

28 Days Later

Twist Around the Clock

two-reelers

Two Thousand Maniacs!

UCLA Film & Television Archive

Ullmann, Liv

United Artists Corporation

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

United States Senate Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights

United World Films

Universal City Studios, Inc.

Universal City Studios, Inc., Sony Corp. of America v.

Universal Studios

University of Southern California (USC) Film School

Unsane

Urbano, Carl

USC School of Cinematic Arts

U.S. Justice Department

U.S. Supreme Court decisions

Vadim, Roger

Vagabond (Los Angeles)

Vale, V.

Valentino, Rudolph

Van Beuren cartoons

Van Dyke, Dick

Varga, Emil

Variety

Vault of Horror

VCRs

Veidt, Conrad

Vera-Ellen

Vertigo

Vertov, Dziga

VHS tape

Victory Theater (Dayton, OH)

Vigo, Jean

vinegar syndrome: explanation and causes of; four-track mag prints and; noteworthy losses from

Visit to Santa, A

Von Sternberg, Josef

Von Stroheim, Erich

Vraney, Mike; friendship with David F. Friedman; jobs with porn and punk; as king of sexploitation movies; as owner of “Something Weird”; passion about access to “orphan” films; rare finds of

Wages of Fear, The

Wagner, Robert

Wagner, Roy H.

Walker, E. Cardon

Wall, The

Wallace, Edgar

Walt Disney Productions: David Hand and; fans of films by; lawsuit against Evan H. Foreman and; restoration of film by; Technicolor and

Walt Disney Treasures (DVD series)

Waltzing Around

Wanger, Walter

Warner Bros.

War of the Worlds, The

Way We Were, The

Weinberg, Herman G.

Weiner, Rex

Weissmuller, Johnny

West, Mae

Westphal, Kyle

West Side Story

Westworld

We the Living

Whale, James

Wheldon, Michael

Whip, The

Whip and the Body, The

Widescreen Society

Wilder, Billy

Wild Hippie Orgy

Williamson, Mike; backyard screenings by; fascination with horror films; observations on superiority of film over digital

Willoughby-Peerless Camera Store (New York)

Winstanley

Winters, Shelley

Wisconsin Film Center

Wise, Woody

Wishman, Doris

Wizard of Oz, The

Wong, Anna May

Wood, Ed

World 3-D Film Expo

Worldvision (distributor)

Wray, Fay

Written on the Wind

Wrong Road, The

WRS Labs (Pittsburg)

Wyler, William

Wyndham, John

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

xenon bulbs

Yellow Submarine

Yordan, Philip

You Asked For It (TV)

Young Frankenstein

Youngson, Robert

Young Winston

Zeffirelli, Franco

Zéro de conduite

Zippo, Jim

Ziv Television Programs, Inc.

Zmijewsky, Boris

Zombies of Mora Tau