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Edwin W. ("Ned") Thanhouser is president of Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. He is the grandson of founders Gertrude and Edwin Thanhouser and has been actively involved in the research, acquisition, preservation, and publication of education materials related to the early silent motion picture era since 1986.

Mr. Thanhouser has been active in film preservation related activities since 1986 and was a member of the 1994 NEA/AFI Film Preservation Grant Board. With his family, he established in 1988 the Thanhouser Film Preservation Trust at the Library of Congress to fund the acquisition and preservation of nitrate based Thanhouser films.

He has worked with film archives around the world, including The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, California; The National Film and Television Archive, The British Film Institute, London, England; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; and The Netherlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland, to locate and assure the preservation of surviving Thanhouser films.

Working with film archives and private collectors, Mr. Thanhouser has produced six VHS tapes and 12 DVD discs containing 56 surviving Thanhouser films making these rare titles available to researchers, scholars and film lovers 100 years since they were last seen by the public.

Mr. Thanhouser also worked with film historian and author, Mr. Q. David Bowers to publish on CD-ROM his exhaustive book on the Thanhouser Film enterprise: Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History.

Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. was formed as a non-profit 501(c)(3) company in 1995 to continue these activities. Thanhouser Company Film Preservations, Inc. plans to use funds generated through the sale of video and CD-ROM products and contributions from public presentation of Thanhouser films, to support the preservation of the over 13,000 feet of Thanhouser nitrate films presently in storage at archives around the world.

Contact information: Edwin ("Ned") Thanhouser, President Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. feedback@thanhouser.org http://www.thanhouser.org