| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Raymond Rohauer ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Raymond Rohauer
Raymond Rohauer (1924,〔Anthony Slide ''Nitrate Won't Wait'', Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992 (), p.48-50〕 Buffalo, New York – November 10, 1987) was an American film collector and distributor.
==Early life and career==
Rohauer moved to California in 1942〔Anthony Slide ''America Racist: The Life amnd Films of Thomas Dixon'', University Press of Kentucky, 2004, p203〕 and was educated at Los Angeles City College.〔>("Archivist Raymond Rohauer; Kept Films by Keaton, Others" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', 20 November 1987〕 Rohauer made a five-reel 16mm experimental film ''Whirlpool'' (1947) which was not successful. He subsequently became active in film exhibition at the Coronet Theatre from 1950,〔 which was, according to William K. Everson, a "bizarre combination of art house, film society and exploitation cinema".〔William K. Everson "Raymond Rohauer: King of the Film Freebooters", ''Grand Street''; Summer 1994, 13:1, p.188-96, 190〕
in 1954, Rohauer met Buster Keaton and his wife, Eleanor; the couple would develop a business partnership with him to rerelease Keaton's films. The Coronet Theatre art house in Los Angeles, with which Rohauer was involved, was showing ''The General'' which "Buster hadn't seen ... in years and he wanted me to see it," Eleanor Keaton said in 1987. "Raymond recognized Buster and their friendship started." Rohauer in that same article recalls, "I was in the projection room. l got a ring that Buster Keaton was in the lobby. I go down and there he is with Eleanor. The next day I met with him at his home. I didn't realize we were going to join forces. But I realized he had this I-don't-care attitude about his stuff. He said, 'It's valueless. I don't own the rights.'"〔 Keaton had prints of the features ''The Three Ages'', ''Sherlock, Jr.'', ''Steamboat Bill, Jr.'', ''College'' (missing one reel) and the shorts "The Boat" and "My Wife's Relations", which Keaton and Rohauer had transferred to safety stock from deteriorating nitrate film stock. Other prints of Keaton's films had been found in the home of the actor James Mason who had bought the property from Keaton, and passed them on to Rohauer.
He was known for claiming rights to films under dubious pretexts and pursued court battles over ''The Birth of a Nation'', eventually found to be in the public domain, and other classics.〔 Often he would re-edit films in order to be able to claim copyright on them and charge a licensing fee.〔Caroline Frick ''Saving Cinema:The Politics of Preservation'', New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, p.156〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Raymond Rohauer」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|