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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


  • Collaborated with Diane Keaton in the mid 90's, supplying vintage imagery for one of her photography books.


  • Pierce's company, Petrified Films Inc., contributed archival footage to the 1995 documentary film Trinity And Beyond , a film often compared to Pierce's own documentary, The Atomic Cafe .


  • Is the nephew of Barbara Bush and first cousins with current President George Bush.



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)


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