00:00Welcome to my nightmare.
00:16Oh man, this is embarrassing.
00:21The complete history of film just doesn't exist.
00:25Basically, everybody threw that history away.
00:28And it's collectors like me that jumped into the bins, garbage cans,
00:32started collecting stuff.
00:34And then when people started saying,
00:35hey, what happened to this film?
00:37Somebody in the woodwork had it.
00:43Let me give you my theory on film collectors of my generation,
00:46which is admittedly most collectors.
00:49We've handled film for so long
00:51that its molecules have become fused with ours.
00:55We've become part film.
00:57Matter of fact, we've become movie monsters.
01:00And that's really what film collecting is.
01:02One long monster movie.
01:04We're all little kids who just love the magic
01:10of that image being shot out of a projector
01:14and have everyone just sit back and go, oh, amazing.
01:20And so here we are exhuming the remains of what was very important
01:25and significant that has not been recognized
01:28and not been preserved for future generations.
01:31Wow.
01:32I love the fact that we're all in the fight,
01:35the good fight together.
01:36So is this a fight you're going to win?
01:38No.
01:39I don't think so.
01:40And yet, if we don't try, then we've lost already.
01:45I've preserved it for 50 years, but I'm not going to be here that much longer.
01:58So we have to pass it on to somebody who really does this all the time.
02:01Why be like everyone else, you know?
02:11Be unique.
02:12Be special.
02:13Send us the therapy bill.
02:15Bye.
02:16Bye.
02:17Bye.
02:18Bye.
02:19Bye.
02:20Bye.
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