An interesting piece on the Technicolor donation and what it means to the film world.
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Transfer of ‘priceless’ collection signals company’s changing direction
By DAVID S. COHEN
A treasure trove of Hollywood history has found a new home.
Technicolor is to announce today that it has donated its archive, one of the most important collections pertaining to the advent of color in film, to the George Eastman House.
The Technicolor gift, which has been moved to a new Eastman House facility in Rochester, N.Y., includes rare cameras, documents and drawings, photographs, printers and processing machines, as well as corporate records going back to 1915.
The gift includes gear used to shoot many Hollywood classics and marks a major expansion of the Eastman House’s already extensive Technicolor collection. Org already boasts the world’s largest collection of Technicolor camera negatives: 3,000 reels, including such movies as “The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone With the Wind.”
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