Education, Industry News
1971; Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers; Volume: 80; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5594/j05704
ISSN0361-4573
AutoresLouis D. Silverstein, Timothy Drescher,
Resumohas announced the donation by United Artists Corp. of the original mastcr negatives of the entire pre-1949 Warner Bros. library of films for inclusion in the collections of the Library of Congress.The films, representing two decades of production following the coming of sound, as well as a large selection of silent features, have been added to the American Film Institute Collection at the Library of Congress for presrrvation in the public interest.The AFI collection now comprises more than 8,000 motion pictures.In addition United Artists has donated the original master negatives of the entire pre-1949 Warner Bros. library of sound short subjects and animated cartoons, Including Looney Tunes and Merry Melodirs, a large selection of sound features produced by Monogram in the 30s and 40s and the entire library of Poptye cartoons released by Paramount during that time.United Artists also donated a collection to the University of Wisconsin including 16mm reference prints, manuscripts, film scripts and still photographs.
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