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It's
a trip down memory lane for any babyboomers, students
and professionals wanting to view, license and buy
some of the rarest and most sought after classic
TV shows, Films & Commercials from the Golden
Age of Television and early Film.
What makes this collection unique is that it has
been collected and restored by the world renowned
film & television historian Ira H. Gallen over
the last 25 years with the Museum of Television
and Radio in New York.
In
the same way that American Movie Classics tries
to get viewer support to preserve feature film
history (but ignores TV's heritage), you'll find
Ira obsessed with uncovering the lost art of Television's
past, which includes an element of the FBI's Most
Wanted as he turns to the public to help save
Television's past.
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His
Video Resources New York Archive for over twenty
years has been used by scholars, schools, universities,
ad agencies, film studios, feature film producers,
directors, music videos, documentary filmmakers,
collectors, hobbyists, toy companies, toy retailers,
network and cable news, magazine and variety shows
worldwide.
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Video
Resources New York houses over 50,000 hours of
television commercials, rare one-of-a-kind television
shows, industrials, sales films, government movies,
educational films, newsreels, cartoons, silent
and sound feature films and shorts, soundies,
and home movies, among other odd reels and short
subjects.
The
company has video & digital editing systems,
film to tape transfers, creating websites, authoring
DVD and creating DVD menus, and websites. Crews
are available for on location shooting, and producing
projects in both film and video.
Only
members to our "Secret Squadron" (Subscribers)
can watch our programming, get our E-commerce
discounts, be a part of our auctions or win future
scholarships & prizes. We want to urge people
to send in videos or photos of their personal
collections, memories of their views of TV shows
and favorite films that they have screened, rented,
or even made.
Gifts, Gadgets and Collectables
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Ira
is best known on television as the Toy, Gadget,
and consumer products guy appearing on all of
the leading news and magazine shows including:
Fox and Friends, Fox on Entertainment, ABC's Business
Week/ Money Talks, CNBC; CNN; CNN/FN; Access Hollywood;
E-Entertainment; Good Day New York; Fox News;
Fox & Friends; ABC's World News Now and Nightline,
among others.
If
you want to find out what programs Ira will be
appearing on as well as his latest hot picks you'll
find it listed in our TOY & GIFT pages. We
have hot links as well showing you to the places
to buy the latest DVDs, Videos, Books, Electronics,
computer hardware & software and other gifts
and collectables.
Ira
H. Gallen, has been a member of the Directors
Guild of America for over 20 years, and worked
his way up from production assistant, assistant
director, 2nd unit director and director on such
feature films as Death Wish, Harry & Tonto;
Mandingo; 3 Days of the Condor, Shafts Big Score,
Marathon Man, Rocky 2, Spiderman, The Hulk, Kramer
vs. Kramer, The Playboy Channel, Playboy Clubs
and numerous European features, among others.
His cable nostalgia & consumer products show
Biograph Days, Biograph Nights is one of the longest
running local New York City based shows .
It's
been the success of Ira's local cable show Biograph
Days/Biograph Nights, now celebrating its 20th
year that resulted in major network and cable
channels using him to do on-camera reporting and
consulting for over a decade now.
Over
50 noted film directors and television personalities
have appeared on BIOGRAPH DAYS/BIOGRAPH NIGHTS
discussing their careers, including Sidney Pollack,
Dennis Hopper, Lee Marvin, Wolfgang Peterson,
Paul Schrader, John Carpenter, Marshall Brickman,
Bill Forsyth, Frank Zappa, Sam Raimi, David Cronenberg,
Jason Miller, David Puttnam, Gillian Armstrong,
Susan Seidelman, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy, Fred
Schepisi, Ralph Bakshi, Anne Francis, Andrei Konchalovsky,
James Tobak, Franco Zeffirelli, Jeremy Irons,
Martha Coolidge, John Avildsen, Daniel Stern,
Kevin Bacon, Tony Bill, Mark Rydell, Robert Preston,
Scott B. and Beth B., Jeremy Paul Kagan, William
Richert, and Jim Henson.
The
program has highlighted rare television shows
and commercials as well as one-of-a-kind films
from the Golden Age of Hollywood, all housed at
his Video Resources Archive where the shows are
taped.
Video
Resources has supplied research and stock footage
for such feature films
as Avalon, Krooklyn, Quiz Show, 3 Wishes, Toys,
Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco,
That Thing You Do, and the HBO Special From Earth
to the Moon both directed by
Tom Hanks, HBO's The Joe DiMaggio Story and The
Space Story, produced
by Walter Cronkite, Mona Lisa's Smile with Julia
Roberts, and the ABC TV series "American
Dream" among others.
The
client list is the who's who of television and
cable: 20/20; 60 minutes; The Today Show; CBS
This Morning; Oprah; ABC News; A&E; Lifetime;
The History Channel; The Emmys; The Oscars; The
Nashville Channel; Dick Clark Productions; Comedy
Central; The Barbara Walters Special; Entertainment
Tonight; ABC World News Now with Peter Jennings;
Nick at Nite; Nickelodeon; Comedy Central; Good
Morning America; Later Today; NBC Nightly News
with Tom Brokaw; live with Regis & Kelly ;
Bloomberg Television; USA Network, TNN, Nashville
Channel, The View, and Dateline among others
Video
Resources 220 west 71st Street, New York City
10023 phone: 212 724 - 7055
fax 212 595 - 0189 e-mail: VIDRES@AOL.com
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