THE ACADEMY O F MOTI ON PI C TU RE ART S AN D SCI ENCES

YEAR-ROUND INITIATIVES The Academy Film Archive accepted SAFEGUARD FILM HISTORY its largest collection to date with the As soon as the Klieg lights went dark Packard Humanities Institute's deposit of and the red carpet was rolled up, the 50,000 movie trailers on 35mm and Academy returned its full focus to the 16mm fi lm. The 1909- 2009 film promos busy slate of year-round activities and were obtained by David Packard from film initiatives. The majority of that work, collector Jeff Joseph. A collection of from preservation efforts and public about 800 cans of American nitrate programming to grants and technology film came to the Archive from the Lobster projects, is made possible by annual Collection in Paris, France. Donations revenue from the licensing of broadcast from the International Buster Keaton rights to the Oscar telecast. Society, Edward R. Pressman Film Corp., At the Margaret Herrick Library, documentary filmmaker Les Blank staff continued to collect and preserve and Twentieth Century Fox, among Hollywood history. The Art Directors others, added a cache of fascinating film Guild donated hundreds of production materials to the archive's vaults. design drawings spanning nearly 80 Back at the Library, another 863 years; other important acquisitions screenplays joined the script collection, included William Cameron Menzies's the largest tally ever added during a drawing of Tara, the colonial mansion single year, and the Academy completed famously featured in "Gone with the its coll ection of original posters for every Wind "; additions to the Robert F. Boyle Best Picture winner with the addition of collection representing his drawings for the three-sheet for 1933's "Cavalcade." nine fi lms; and production design items for Woody Allen's gift of photographic movies as diverse as "Top Hat" (1935), material from 34 of his fi lms highlights "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991) and the remarkable work of Brian Hamill, "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" (2009). Allen's unit photographer on 23 films. Costume designer Albert Wolsky The Li brary also acquired over 4,000 entrusted the Library with more than 70 rare photographs for various foreign, of his drawings for such memorable films documentary and independent films. as "All That Jazz," "Sophie's Choice" and Selma Archerd, widow of longtime "Bugsy," and stunning drawings were Variety columnist Army Archerd, added to the Costume Designers Guild donated what by all accounts is the most and Leonard Stanley collections. comprehensive "rolodex" in Hollywood ~

This page (clockwise from top left): Costume design drawing for "The Band Wagon" (1953), Leonard Stanley Collection; portrait of G race Kelly, ca. 1954; drawing by William Cameron Menzies for "Gone with the Wind" (1939).

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