It seems distantly important to most Americans when their favorite films turn a birthdays year after year.
The truth of the matter is the studios that produce these wonderful films don't preserve them. It may be the very films that endear our hearts and entertain our imaginatiosn may be sitting in a can and rotting into oblivion.
Some filmmakers have taken the initiative to begin to preserve some of the Classics. They fund raise to bring the films back to life and provide a permanent fix to the loss of the performances and performers caught in their best appearances.
These films coming into their 75th year are as important to the American landscape as the day they were filmed. All to often the urgency to protect some of our most precious films go unnoticed and could be lost forever.
August 27, 2014
By Scott Cherry
5 to Find: Films that are turning 75 years old (click here)
The truth of the matter is the studios that produce these wonderful films don't preserve them. It may be the very films that endear our hearts and entertain our imaginatiosn may be sitting in a can and rotting into oblivion.
Some filmmakers have taken the initiative to begin to preserve some of the Classics. They fund raise to bring the films back to life and provide a permanent fix to the loss of the performances and performers caught in their best appearances.
These films coming into their 75th year are as important to the American landscape as the day they were filmed. All to often the urgency to protect some of our most precious films go unnoticed and could be lost forever.
August 27, 2014By Scott Cherry
5 to Find: Films that are turning 75 years old (click here)
It has been 75 years this month since Dorothy danced down the Yellow Brick Road and into our hearts and 75 years since Scarlett proclaimed, “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”
I probably don’t have to tell a soul we are talking about “The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone With the Wind,” the two most memorable and most watched movies of 1939.
“Gone With the Wind” received 13 Academy Award nominations, winning 10, including outstanding production (best picture), and “The Wizard of Oz” snagged six nominations.
In a year many consider to be Hollywood’s finest, six films received more nominations than “Oz,” and two received the same. Twenty-three films received multiple nominations....
