August 26, 2010, Filed Under: Conservation‘Every now and then you have to think outside the box’ Preservation Housings Manager Apryl Voskamp spends a lot of her time at the Ransom Center making boxes. Yet, she says, “every now and then you have to think outside the box.” That’s because the preservation lab is responsible for housing every type of item in the Ransom Center’s collections: from… read more
August 12, 2010, Filed Under: Conservation, FilmGrant will allow restoration of four Jorge Prelorán films The Ransom Center recently received a grant from the Tinker Foundation, based in New York City, to restore and make accessible four films by Jorge Prelorán. The series, “The Argentine Gaucho Today,” resides in the Edward Larocque Tinker collection at the Ransom Center. Born to an Argentine father and Irish-American… read more
August 10, 2010, Filed Under: Conservation, FilmDonations sought to restore iconic costumes from ‘Gone With The Wind’ The Ransom Center seeks to raise $30,000 to restore and preserve five original costumes from Gone With The Wind (1939). Donations to restore the costumes can be made online. The Ransom Center holds the film collection of David O. Selznick, a well-known and admired producer of Hollywood’s “Golden Age” of… read more
