A selection of the collections we have been trusted with, spanning major studios, museums and institutes, a legendary visual-effects house, and the family trusts and estates that safeguard artists’ legacies.
16mm reels of 1940s–50s Broadway dress rehearsals, the only surviving record of stagings now extinct, recovered from film long given up for lost.
Thousands of vault items across every format and film stock, each shot under wildly different conditions and brought to one consistent look, so it all cut together as the primary footage for Netflix’s “Zappa.”
Gene Kelly’s personal archive of film, video, audio, and photographs across sixteen formats, an enormous, ongoing project we are digitizing frame for frame into a living library behind books, films, and Patricia Ward Kelly’s stage shows.
Among the studio’s earliest features, long forgotten and shrunken past what a conventional scanner could pull through, captured frame by frame at their own aged dimensions.
Rare single-perforation Biograph Company films that no scanner could safely transport, captured at 5K to produce the first stable digital masters, along with brittle 1915 footage of the New York City subway.
The visual-effects library of Albert Whitlock and Illusion Arts: separation masters, interpositives, and VistaVision plates from films like “Cape Fear” and “The Hindenburg,” archived before the hand-painted matte process disappeared.
