INDIANAPOLIS — Eric Grayson, the Indianapolis-based film historian, collector, and preservationist, has been invited to address the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) at its annual convention in November in Richmond, VA.
Grayson will speak about his recent preservation and restoration of Chapter 5 of the 1929 film, King of the Kongo, the first sound film serial, and show the restored chapter.
Eric located the fragile, rare shellac sound discs, painstakingly restored the film itself, and married the sound and the visuals. Grayson has restored and preserved several old films and shorts, but this chapter was his most ambitious effort to date. He first screened it for fellow film historians and the general public at a special gathering hosted by the Library of Congress, and recently presented it at Indiana Landmarks.
Grayson has now obtained the discs for Chapter 10. These have been transferred to a digital format so he can begin the restoration of another chapter of King of the Kongo. These discs are likely the only ones in existence, according to Grayson.
For more information on Grayson, visit www.filmeric.com. To read his popular blog on many aspects of film, visit www.drfilm.net/blog. Join his Dr. Film group on Facebook: www.drfilm.net/facebook.
