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In 1991 a group of film buffs and record collectors met to discuss the possibility of seeking out the shellac soundtrack discs that accompanied early 1926-1930 Vitaphone (and other) talkie shorts and features. The Vitaphone Project was formed to accomplish this goal as well as to partner with the studios (particularly Turner/WB), film archives (UCLA, LOC, BFI), and private collectors worldwide in order to get these films restored and seen again. Of particular interest were the nearly 2,000 talkie short subjects, featuring vaudevillians, bands, opera singers, and comedians made by Vitaphone from 1926-1929. In many cases 35mm picture elements exist without an accompanying soundtrack.
Since its inception The Vitaphone Project has located over 3,000 12- and 16-inch shellac soundtrack discs in private hands, has assisted on the restoration of over 35 shorts and 12 features, and has developed nearly $300,000 in private funding for restorations. There are still over 80 shorts for which picture, but no sound, exists.
We need your help to continue to locate soundtrack discs, mute film elements, underwriters, and relatives of people who worked on these films. Loaners of discs get their own copy of the completed restoration, and underwriters of restorations (currently a tax deductible $4,500 through UCLA) also get a copy as well as on-screen credit.
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VITAPHONE NEWS
ISSN 1066-5951
Corresponding Secretary & Editor
Ron Hutchinson
5 Meade Court
Piscataway, NJ 08854
(732) 463-8521
FAX: (732) 463-8521
medusashaircut@erols.com
ron@vitaphoneproject.com
Database:
Patrick Picking
patrick@picking.com
Co-Founders:
John Newton
newtonjj2@aol.com
Sherwin Dunner
sherwindunner@yahoo.com
Vince Giordano
vincegiordano@optonline.net
Vitaphone Project Web Page Designer
Patrick Picking
patrick@picking.com
Vitaphone Project Web Page
http://www.vitaphoneproject.com
medusashaircut@erols.com
ron@vitaphoneproject.com
Jeff Cohen's "Vitaphone Varieties" Site
http://vitaphone.blogspot.com
Leonard Maltin's Site
http://www.leonardmaltin.com
Talkie King
http://talkieking.blogspot.com
Nitrateville
http://www.nitrateville.com
"The Vitaphone Project"
OVERSEAS PROJECT EMMISSARIES
UK: Malcolm Billingsley
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND: Paul Brennan
SCANDANAVIA: Jonas Nordin
This web site is maintained by Patrick Picking: patrick@picking.com
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