SWAN ARCHIVES DONATES MATERIAL, WILL BE PROFESSIONALLY PRESERVED & STORED
This past July, The Swan Archives put up for auction the original outtakes, deleted scenes, and other original materials it had managed to unearth and collect from Brian De Palma's Phantom Of The Paradise. A reserve price had been met, but when the Academy Film Archive expressed interest in the materials, the Archivist happily canceled the auction. Here's how the excellent news was reported on the Swan Archives News page on August 25th, accompanied by a photo that included the Archivist, Paul Hirsch, and others:
Today, our Principal Archivist delivered our donation of the Archives' collection of outtakes, b-roll, and deleted scenes, in the form of 35mm negatives and interpositives, along with negatives of the TV spots and trailer and related ephemera, to the Academy Film Archive, an arm of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in Los Angeles. At the AFA's facilities, the delicate footage will be catalogued, preserved, and stored professionally in the best possible conditions, so that it will be available for whatever use the future sees fit to put it to. Our Archivist (center) was joined for the handoff (and a nice lunch and "backstage" tour of the AFA's facilities) by, from left to right, AMPAS Acquisitions Archivist Howard Prouty; (Ed Pressman's wife) Annie Pressman; AFA Collections Curator Fritz Hertzog; AFA Senior Film Archivist Bill Black; Accessioning Archivist Rachel Rosenfeld from the Margaret Herrick Library; and (Phantom editor) Paul Hirsch. We at the Archives couldn't be happier with this conclusion to our adventure with this material. Now, with our own mission -- to shepherd the material to a hi-def release for the enjoyment of Phantom fans around the world -- accomplished, it's satisfying, and comforting, to know that the footage will be lovingly preserved alongside the tens of thousands of other culturally significant cinematic relics curated by the professionals at the AFA.
Updated: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 10:21 PM CDT
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