IndieCollect
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IndieCollect is a film preservation organization founded by Sandra Schulberg in 2010. Its goal is to preserve U.S. independent films.
Schulberg worked for five years to restore the 1948 film Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today and realized the need to preserve independent films.[1] When the studio DuArt Film and Video shut down its film photochemical processing division, it had 60,000 cans of film left behind in its vaults.[2] IndieCollect requested permission from DuArt to access its vaults. IndieCollect engaged in outreach and enlisted institutions including the UCLA Film and Television Archive,[1] Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, Anthology Film Archives, Library of Congress, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescue film negatives from the vaults.[2] Film titles were identified and either added to archives or returned to filmmakers.[1] While negatives could be returned to filmmakers, they could not be projected, requiring making a print from the negative to do so.[3] For Solomon Northup's Odyssey, IndieCollect used crowdfunding to develop a print of the film created.[3]
Films restored by IndieCollect
- Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
- The Atomic Cafe (1982)
- In the Soup (1992)
- Early films by Christine Vachon
- Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988)
- Home movies of Frank Lloyd Wright
- The War at Home (1979)
- F.T.A. (1972)
- Horace B. Jenkins's Cane River (1982)
- James Ivory's 1957 student film Venice: Themes and Variations
- Gordon Parks's Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984)