20th Century Fox To Close One Of The Last Studio Research Libraries

I have confirmed that 20th Century Fox is very quietly shutting its film research library after 85 years in existence, the second-to-last such facility at a Hollywood studio making available books, drawings, photographs, scrapbooks, samples, and other one-of-a-kind materials. (Most of the other studio libraries have been closed or sold off except for the Samuel Goldwyn Research Library, owned and managed by Lillian Michelson, and housed on the DreamWorks Animation lot, and Warner’s studio library.) “This is film history used and recycled everyday and also Los Angeles history,” an insider tells me. “Once this goes, it’s gone.”

Source: Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood

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