When I was in New York last week I attended an IndieCollect fundraiser on the 12th floor of the DuArt building on West 55th Street and took a look at their dwindling but still massive vault. That's where they store some 4-6000 master prints--many 16mm, fewer 35 mm--that are still separated from their owners. Some go back to the 70s. And only recently has IndieCollect managed to get them indexed and barcoded in a digital database. Who owns them? The filmmakers who created the movies. Back in the pre-digital era, when DuArt was the go-to film laboratory for indie filmmakers, DuArt held onto the masters in case anyone wanted to strike a new print. Well, those days are gone. DuArt has gone digital like everyone else. But the negatives remain, carefully stored. And DuArt owner Irwin Young, whose father founded the company in 1922, vows to protect them from the shredder. I...
- 6/22/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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