Film Rescue International to the rescue!

Joe O’Connor writing for the Financial Post explains How a business in small-town Saskatchewan is exposing lost history.

He states:

“Film Rescue has a global reach — and reputation — with a collection office in the Netherlands and another in northern Montana. Every few weeks, a batch of 200 to 400 rolls of old camera and home movie film appears at the Indian Head office, which is housed in a 125-year-old bank building on the main highway through town.”

That’s Indian Head, Saskatchewan, east of Regina.

“The film rescuers consist of Miller, Gostick and five employees…. One employee, Gerald Freyer, is a European-trained digitization expert. He was beavering away for a German museum when Miller recruited him to move to the Prairies. His latest star acquisition is Heather Harkins, who trained at the renowned Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester, N.Y., and was doing contract work for museums and archives throughout North America when she got a cold-call job offer.”

As Film Rescue says on their website: “We are the revealers of lost and found treasurers. Since 1999.”

My take: Ooh! I see they also offer movie film scanning as well.