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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. 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.
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.
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
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 .
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 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 |
