Anthony L’Abbate:
Preservation Manager in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Musuem. A 1999 graduate of The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. Mr. L’Abbate was employed as a laboratory technician at Cinema Arts, Inc. in New Foundland, PA. from 1999 – 2001. He returned to the Eastman Museum in 2001 as their Stills Archivist. He moved over to preservation in 2007 as Preservation Officer and promoted to Manager in 2017. During his five-year tenure as Stills Archivist, he supervised the scanning of hundreds of still images and frame captures from preserved films. He has overseen the preservation and restoration of Roaring Rails (1924), Jazzmania (1923), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), and Huckleberry Finn (1920). Recent restoration projects include The Clutch of Circumstance (1918) and the reconstruction / restoration of The Unknown (1927).