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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)
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
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
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.
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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