Fimmaker Martin Scorsese introducing the world restoration premiere of "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" at the 2008 New York Film Festival. (Photo courtesy of David Godlis)
D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915), Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), and Gone with the Wind (1939), are classic films by almost anyone’s standards. But keeping these pictures alive after so many years is no easy task, and one of the organizations doing this is a non-profit group called The Film Foundation.
Started in 1993 by Martin Scorsese and fellow filmmakers that include Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Robert Altman, The Film Foundation is the leading organization devoted to saving the 20th century’s cinematic gems from the damage wrought by time and neglect.
