The Race to Save 100 Years

Release Date: 1997-10-17

Overview: As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints. This film stresses the importance of saving these and more recent films as cultural documents that have become part of our shared history. It also takes the viewer through the painstaking process of film restoration, and highlights some of the organizations and individuals who are spear-heading this movement.

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Cast

Peter Brooks

as Self / Narrator

Martin Scorsese

as Self

Ted Turner

as Self

Mary Lea Bandy

as Self

James H. Billington

as Self