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Pierce, David, 1959-

 Person

Biographical History

David Pierce (b. 1959) is an American historian and archivist.

Citation:
The dawn of Technicolor, 1915-1935, 2015: ECIP t.p. (David Pierce) data view (Pierce, David William; born September 26, 1959)

Motion picture copyrights & renewals, 1950-1959, c1989: t.p. (David Pierce) t.p. verso (Laurel, Md.) cover p. 4 (film consultant)

The survival of American silent feature films, 2013: ECIP t.p. (David Pierce) data view (historian and archivist; at the British Film Institute (BFI) from 2001 to 2004, he was head of preservation of the National Film and Television Archive (NFTVA), and was appointed curator (head) of the archive in 2002; he led the NFTVA's restoration project for F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927) with the Academy Film Archive and Twentieth Century Fox. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; received his MBA from George Washington University in Washington, DC)

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Photographs and negatives of King of kings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2228
Scope and Contents

Includes 905 nitrate negatives and 262 photographic prints of scene stills, publicity, and theater marquees for Cecil B. DeMille's motion picture, King of Kings (1927). Pierce acquired the collection at an unspecified time.

Dates: 1927
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Photographs and negatives of King of kings

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