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David Shepard is also the name of a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Tennessee House of Representatives

The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the U.S. state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee....
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David Shepard (b. 1940
1940 in film

The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
) is a film preservationist
Film preservation

The film preservation, or film restoration, movement is an ongoing project among film historians, archivists, museums, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images which they contain....
 whose company, Film Preservation Associates, is responsible for many high quality video versions of silent films. Some come from the Blackhawk Films
Blackhawk Films

Blackhawk Films, from the 1950s through the early 1980s, marketed motion pictures on 16mm, 8mm and Super 8 film. Most were vintage one- or two-reel short subjects, usually comedies starring Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and other famous comedy series of the past....
 library (also owned by David Shepard) and others from materials owned by private collectors and film archives around the world.

Shepard began restoring films when he joined the American Film Institute
American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B....
 in 1968
1968 in film

The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
 as one of their first staff members.






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David Shepard is also the name of a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Tennessee House of Representatives

The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the U.S. state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee....
.


David Shepard (b. 1940
1940 in film

The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
) is a film preservationist
Film preservation

The film preservation, or film restoration, movement is an ongoing project among film historians, archivists, museums, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images which they contain....
 whose company, Film Preservation Associates, is responsible for many high quality video versions of silent films. Some come from the Blackhawk Films
Blackhawk Films

Blackhawk Films, from the 1950s through the early 1980s, marketed motion pictures on 16mm, 8mm and Super 8 film. Most were vintage one- or two-reel short subjects, usually comedies starring Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and other famous comedy series of the past....
 library (also owned by David Shepard) and others from materials owned by private collectors and film archives around the world.

Shepard began restoring films when he joined the American Film Institute
American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B....
 in 1968
1968 in film

The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
 as one of their first staff members. In 1987, he bought the Blackhawk Films library.

Affiliates

  • Film Preservation Associates, Serge Bromberg (Lobster Films)
  • Film Preservation Associates, Benjamin Scott Baker (Assistant to Producer)


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List of Films Restored by Shepard

  • The Affairs of Anatol
    The Affairs of Anatol

    The Affairs of Anatol is a 1921 in film drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. ...
     (1921
    1921 in film

    Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
    )
  • America (1924
    1924 in film

    Events* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
    )
  • Atlantis
    Atlantis (1913 film)

    Atlantis, , is a silent film from Denmark that was the first multi-reeled Denmark feature movie. It was directed by August Blom, the head of production at the Nordisk Film company, and was based upon the 1912 novel by Gerhart Hauptmann, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature....
     (1913
    1913 in film

    The year 1913 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Destiny (1921
    1921 in film

    Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
    )
  • The Birth of a Nation
    The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation , is a 1915 in film silent film directed by D. W. Griffith; one of the most innovative of Cinema of the United States....
     (1915
    1915 in film

    The year 1915 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Black Pirate
    The Black Pirate

    The Black Pirate is a 1926 in film Adventure film silent film shot entirely in two-strip Technicolor about an adventurer and a "company" of pirates....
     (1926
    1926 in film

    Events*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan . The Vitaphone system used multiple 33? rpm gramophone record developed by Bell Labs and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
    )
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920
    1920 in film

    The year 1920 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Carmen
    Carmen

    Carmen is a French op?ra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Hal?vy, based on the Carmen by Prosper M?rim?e, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem "The Gypsies" by Pushkin....
     (1915
    1915 in film

    The year 1915 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • City Lights
    City Lights

    City Lights is a Cinema of the United States silent film romantic comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, and starring Chaplin alongside Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    )
  • Cobra
    Cobra

    A cobra is a snake and usually a venomous member of the family Elapidae . The name is short for cobra de capello , which is Portuguese language for "snake with hood," or "hood-snake." When disturbed, most of these snakes can rear up and spread their neck in a characteristic threat display....
     (1925
    1925 in film

    Events...
    )
  • Convict 13
    Convict 13

    Convict 13 is a 1920 in film short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline....
     (1920
    1920 in film

    The year 1920 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Coward (1915
    1915 in film

    The year 1915 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Don Q Son of Zorro (1925
    1925 in film

    Events...
    )
  • Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922
    1922 in film

    Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
    )
  • Faust
    Faust (1926 film)

    Faust is a classic silent film produced in 1926 in film by Universum Film AG, directed by F.W. Murnau, starring G?sta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, William Dieterle as her brother and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt....
     (1926
    1926 in film

    Events*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan . The Vitaphone system used multiple 33? rpm gramophone record developed by Bell Labs and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
    )
  • Flirting With Fate (1916
    1916 in film

    The year 1916 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Go West
    Go West (1925 film)

    Go West is a silent movie starring Buster Keaton.Keaton portrays Friendless, who travels west to try to make his fortune. Once there, he tries his hand at bronco-busting, cattle wrangling, and dairy farming, eventually forming a bond with a cow named "Brown Eyes." Eventually he finds himself leading a herd of cattle through Los Angele...
     (1925
    1925 in film

    Events...
    )
  • His New Job
    His New Job

    His New Job is a short 1915 in film film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin....
     (1915
    1915 in film

    The year 1915 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)

    The 1923 in film film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney, Sr. as Quasimodo and Patsy Ruth Miller as Esmeralda , and directed by Wallace Worsley, is the most famous adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame....
     (1923
    1923 in film

    Events*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm talking picture system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers....
    )
  • The Indian Tomb (1921
    1921 in film

    Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
    )
  • A King in New York
    A King in New York

    A King in New York is a 1957 in film film directed by and starring Charles Chaplin in his last leading role, which presents a satirical view of certain aspects of United States politics and society....
     (1957
    1957 in film

    The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Last Laugh
    The Last Laugh

    The Last Laugh is a Germany 1924 in film silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer which was based on a Broadway theatre play by Charles W....
     (1924
    1924 in film

    Events* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
    )
  • The Lost World
    The Lost World (1925 film)

    The Lost World is a 1925 in film silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World . The movie stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger....
     (1925
    1925 in film

    Events...
    ) restored version released April 6, 2001
    2001 in film

    The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ...
  • The Man With the Movie Camera (1929
    1929 in film

    EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
    )
  • The Mark of Zorro
    The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)

    The Mark of Zorro is a silent film film released in 1920 in film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure film was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro....
     (1920
    1920 in film

    The year 1920 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Matrimaniac (1916
    1916 in film

    The year 1916 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Modern Times
    Modern Times (film)

    Modern Times is a 1936 in film comedy film by Charles Chaplin that has his iconic The Tramp character, in his final silent-film appearance, struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world....
     (1936
    1936 in film

    The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Mollycoddle
    The Mollycoddle

    The Mollycoddle is a 1920 in film film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, and directed by Victor Fleming....
     (1920
    1920 in film

    The year 1920 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Moods of the Sea
    Moods of the Sea

    Moods of the Sea is a non-narrative visual film by Slavko Vorkapich and John Hoffman , set to the music of Felix Mendelssohn known as the Hebrides Overture....
     (1941
    1941 in film

    The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Nanook of the North
    Nanook of the North

    Nanook of the North is a silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuit Nanook and his family in the Canada arctic....
     (1922
    1922 in film

    Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
    )
  • Nosferatu (1922
    1922 in film

    Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
    ) restored version released January 2, 2001
    2001 in film

    The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ...
  • Orphans of the Storm
    Orphans Of The Storm

    'Orphans of the Storm' is a film by D.W. Griffith set in late 18th century France, before and during the French Revolution.This was the last Griffith film to feature Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish, and is often considered Griffith's last major commercial success, after boxoffice hits such as Birth of a Nation, Intolerance , and ...
     (1921
    1921 in film

    Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
    )
  • Our Daily Bread (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • Phantom of the Opera (1925
    1925 in film

    Events...
    )
  • The Pilgrim
    The Pilgrim

    The Pilgrim is a 1923 in film United States silent film made by Charlie Chaplin for the First National, starring Chaplin and Edna Purviance....
     (1923
    1923 in film

    Events*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm talking picture system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers....
    )
  • Prison Train (1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Robin Hood
    Robin Hood

    Robin Hood is an archetype figure in English folklore, whose story originates from Middle Ages times but who remains significant in popular culture where he is known for robbing the rich to give to the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny....
     (1922
    1922 in film

    Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
    )
  • Shadows (1922
    1922 in film

    Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
    )
  • Siegfried
    Siegfried

    Siegfried is a German language male given name, meaning "victory peace".Siegfried may also refer to:*Siegfried , an opera by Richard Wagner...
     (1924
    1924 in film

    Events* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
    )
  • The Sin of Nora Moran (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • Steamboat Bill (1928
    1928 in film

    EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
    )
  • Strike
    Strike (film)

    Strike is a silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisenstein's first full-length feature film, and he would go on to make The Battleship Potemkin later that year....
     (1925
    1925 in film

    Events...
    )
  • Sunrise
    Sunrise (film)

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans , also known as Sunrise, is an United States film directed by Germany film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story Die Reise nach Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann....
     (1927
    1927 in film

    Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
    )
  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • The Thief of Bagdad (1924
    1924 in film

    Events* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
    )
  • Tillie's Punctured Romance
    Tillie's Punctured Romance

    Tillie's Punctured Romance is the name of two early comedy films:* Tillie's Punctured Romance , starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Charles Chaplin...
     (1914
    1914 in film

    The year 1914 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Tol'able David
    Tol'able David

    Tol'able David is a 1921 in film United States silent film based on the Joseph Hergesheimer short story. It was adapted to the screen by Edmund Goulding and directed by Henry King for Inspiration Pictures....
     (1921
    1921 in film

    Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
    )
  • Twenty Minutes of Love
    Twenty Minutes of Love

    Twenty Minutes of Love is a 1914 in film United States comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios. It was the first film directed by Charlie Chaplin....
     (1914
    1914 in film

    The year 1914 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Les Vampires
    Les Vampires

    Les Vampires is a 10-part silent film Serial . It was written and directed by Louis Feuillade and stars Musidora as "Irma Vep" a femme fatale whose name is an anagram of "vampire." The serial is set in Paris, France and follows the exploits of a gang of master criminals who call themselves "Les Vampires."...
     (1915
    1915 in film

    The year 1915 in film involved some significant events....
    )