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11,000 motion pictures. The emnual expenditure rate is now over 2.5 million dollars, 15 times that of 1967.
The AFI program, awards grants to help organizations restore, preserve and catalog films of artistic or cultural value. Grants have been awarded to large institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, as well as to smaller institutions such as the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, the American Jewish Historical Society in Boston, and the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee. In an effort to prevent a future crisis with color film as severe as the present nitrate crisis, small research grants will be awarded in the coming year to study the application of laser holography to color preservation.
After fifty years of archival neglect, our priority in 1967 was the acquisition and safeguarding of nitrate films. Today, there are more than 14,000 films in the AFI Collection at the Library of Congress, and thousands of other films have been acquired by the other major archives.
One of my favorite search and rescue stories involves John Ford's 1939 classic, STAGECOACH, starring John Wayne and made by an independent producer. This film was high on our first priority list of endangered films , but we were uneible to locate good 35mm material for preservation ctnywhere, until we discovered that the Duke himself had kept a print in his personal collection. Wayne generously funded a preservation negative and donated it to the Institute for permanent archival retention.
To assure a coordinated national preservation effort, the Film Institute has joined our sister archives sind several smaller related institutions in the Film Archives Advisory Committee, which meet four times per year. This group has evolved over the years into an essential forum where the working archivists advise each other of their problems and successes, and set standards, priorities