Hollywood money-grubbing scum, tee-hee
- From: "Attila the Hunn" <pumaconcolor@[redacted]>
- Subject: Hollywood money-grubbing scum, tee-hee
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:56:22 -0600
>From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@[redacted]>
>OK, let's look at the film industry. . . .
>
>Most of the history of the film industry has been thrown in the trash.
>
>A few years ago the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
>and Sciences [the Oscars {TM} people] made an impassioned plea for
>everyone to look under their beds, in their attics and garages, etc.
>for prints of the majority of movies that were simply thrown away
>by the movie studios, leaving themselves without any copies whatever.
My own employer has a major archive of much of this kind of material, though
little of it came by way of Hollywood. Most of it came from personal
collections, foundations, and donations, and from the original United
Artists. And we're underfunded and much of this collection rests in the
basement of our building, between two lakes and well below the water line.
If we don't get a new building soon...
http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/wcftr/index.htm
--Andrew Lee Hunn (Attila)