David Shepard (film preservationist)

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David Haspel Shepard (October 22, 1940 – January 31, 2017)<ref name="Grimes">Grimes, William (February 5, 2017). "David Shepard, Film Preservationist, Dies at 76". New York Times. Retrieved 2017-02-08.</ref> was an American film preservationist whose company, Film Preservation Associates, is responsible for many high-quality video versions of silent films.<ref name="Grimes"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Some come from the Blackhawk Films library (owned by Shepard)<ref name="Grimes"/> and others from materials owned by private collectors and film archives around the world.

Biography

Shepard was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Marjorie (née Haspel) and Bertram Shepard.<ref name="Grimes"/> His father was an executive with the Grand Union grocery-store chain, and his mother a homemaker.<ref name="Grimes"/> When he was 11 years old his family moved to Tenafly, New Jersey.<ref name="Grimes"/>

As a teenager he filmed school football games for the coaches to study, and in the off-season began to make his own films with student actors.<ref name="Grimes"/> He graduated from Hamilton College, in Clinton, New York, in 1962, with a BA in philosophy, and completed a master's degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963.<ref name="Grimes"/>

Shepard began restoring films when he joined the American Film Institute in 1968 as one of their first staff members. In 1987, he bought the Blackhawk Films library.

In December 2016, he suffered pneumonia and kidney disease and was hospitalized. Doctors discovered cancer in his chest and he died on January 31, 2017, in Medford, Oregon.

Most of the collections of David Shepard and Film Preservation Associates are held at the Academy Film Archive as part of the Lobster Film/Film Preservation Associates Collection.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Affiliates

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

Partial list of restored films

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Awards

Year Award Category Result
1989 International Documentary Association Preservation and Scholarship Award Template:Won
1999 Saturn Award The President's Memorial Award Template:Won
2000 San Francisco International Film Festival Mel Novikoff Award Template:Won
2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Special Citation Template:Won
2006 National Society of Film Critics Special Award Template:Won
2011 Denver Silent Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award Template:Won

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