On Sunday, Martin Scorsese was given the Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award honoring him equally for his long filmmaking career and for his film preservation work.
In 1990, Scorsese created The Film Foundation along with several other distinguished filmmakers like Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. The Foundation runs several programs dealing with film education, artists’ rights and film preservation.
Actual film is an extremely brittle material prone to rapid decay. Due to improper storage and care, the Foundation says “half of all American movies made before 1950 have already disintegrated and are lost forever, and a mere 10 percent of the films produced in the United States before 1929 are still in existence.”
While the Foundation doesn’t provide a full list of films it has helped preserve — and hopefully someday it will — there is a sample list on their site that specifically includes two underground films.
In 1990, Scorsese created The Film Foundation along with several other distinguished filmmakers like Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. The Foundation runs several programs dealing with film education, artists’ rights and film preservation.
Actual film is an extremely brittle material prone to rapid decay. Due to improper storage and care, the Foundation says “half of all American movies made before 1950 have already disintegrated and are lost forever, and a mere 10 percent of the films produced in the United States before 1929 are still in existence.”
While the Foundation doesn’t provide a full list of films it has helped preserve — and hopefully someday it will — there is a sample list on their site that specifically includes two underground films.
- 1/20/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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