The End (1953) by Christopher Maclaine (1923-75) was restored by Cineric Labs and Anthology in early 1995. A 35 minute sound film made on 16mm, The End depicts five different people on the last days of their lives. Visually inventive (it was photographed by Jordan Belson) and brooding, the film has always had a "problem" because the narration was poorly recorded in 1953, and what was said by the narrator was important. Earlier this year Cineric rerecorded the narration, removed much of the background noise, and delivered a new print to Anthology. It is now possible to hear, as well as see, the film the way Maclaine intended.

Balazs Nyari of Cineric was one of the six honorees at Anthology's March 1995 Preservation Week Dinner. The other honorees were the cable network American Movies Classics (Norsen O'Laughlin), The Library of Congress (David Francis), The New York State Council on the Arts (Kitty Carlisle Hart), Pacific Film Archive (Edith Kramer), and VidiPax, Inc. (James Lindner).

During the dinner a special presentation was made to Sony Entertainment (represented by Grover Crisp) in recognition of Sony's support for film preservation at Anthology. The speaker who presented the award to Sony was Jonathan Foreman, whose father, Carl Foreman, had written and produced the 1972 film Young Winston which was being "premiered" at Anthology later in the week. "Premiered" because the complete film had never been shown before in the United States. Fifteen crucial minutes had been removed from this biography of Winston Churchill before its American release in 1972.

An Anthology researcher had spotted an unusually long version of the film on a Sony/Columbia inventory several years ago; it was subsequently confirmed to be the intact, full-length version of Young Winston. The "new" footage significantly changed two sections: 1) the battle of Omdurman in the Sudan was magnified in its ferocity and 2) Churchill's dreamed encounter with his long-dead father again became the penultimate sequence in the film. Jonathan Foreman, who watched the full-length version twice over the next week, observed that this complete version of the film had also been out of circulation in the UK for more than a decade - which is mystifying since the full-length film is vastly better than the cut US version. Old Winston's dream of young Randolph - particularly the humor and the sense of loss - is especially important to the structure writer Carl Foreman had designed for the film. And the slaughter at Omdurman undergirds young Winston's speech in Parliament when he warns against the specter of war, and calls for economy in military appropriations.

At the end of 1994 Anthology published a catalog of films and publications available from the archive. The 30 page guide lists 145 films and almost twice as many books and catalogs. Copies of the catalog are available free, but require $5 for international postage. Write to: Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003, U.S.A.

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Entre las actividades desarrolladas por Anthology Film Archives, el autor menciona las siguientes:
La restauración, en colaboración con Cineric Labs, de The End (1953) de Christopher Maclaine (1923-1975), en particular su cinta sonora.
La organización de la «6a. Noche de preservación», esta vez en honor a Balazs Nyari, y proyección de la versión completa de Young Winston (escrita y producida por Jonathan Foreman en 1972) en presencia de Grover Crisp de Sony Entertainment. De aquí en adelante, el público podrá ver el film con las escenas completas de la batalla de Omdurmán y el encuentro con su padre, soñado por el joven Churchill.
La edición del catálogo de películas y publicaciones disponibles en Anthology Film Archives.

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