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Pierce and his former spouse, Margaret Crimmins, founded Petrified Films, Inc. in 1984, a pioneering independent stock film footage library that held the Elmer Dyer Film Library , Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures ' feature film outtakes. Pierce spent more than a decade organizing and cataloguing vaults all over NYC that were filled to the ceilings with cans of film. Located in New York City's The Meatpacking District , Petrified licensed archival footage to film, television, and commercial producers before being acquired by The Image Bank . The Image Bank was later acquired by Getty Images . With his brother Kevin Rafferty and Jayne Loader , Pierce made the Cult Classic film The Atomic Cafe ( 1982 ). He is now Director of the Henry L. Ferguson Museum, Fishers Island, New York MISCELLANEA
FILMOGRAPHY As Director, Producer: # The Atomic Cafe (1982) (co-producer) As writer: #Heavy Petting (1989) Miscellaneous: #The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998) (archival footage) # Theremin : An Electronic Odyssey (1994) (thanks) # Yes : 9012 Live (1986) (V) (archival film and photo supplier) # The Atomic Cafe (1982) (archival researcher) EXTERNAL LINKS |
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