TFT's Kuntz on the Universal fire

TFT Professor Jonathan Kuntz penned a passionate op-ed piece for the The New York Times, “Hollywood is Burning,” about the cultural implications of the fire on the Universal Studios backlot in June, which a destroyed a vault containing many prints of classic films.

This latest fire, I hope, will prompt Universal and its fellow majors to better preserve not just key titles like "Duck Soup," "Dracula" or "Vertigo" — which will surely be reprinted and return to circulation — but also the other 90 percent of their inventories, the less famous and therefore more vulnerable titles that the studio may not feel justify spending thousands to save. These are exquisite samples of 20th-century American culture and deserve to always be seen in their extravagant, sensual, big-screen glory.

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