death_place death_date work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date residence article_title name alma_mater
syracuse , new york january 16 , 2000 george film eastman house , international museum of photography & shaker heights , ohio american film cinephilia preservation , film archiving , film history . october 25 , 1915 east rochester , new york james card
 james card case western reserve university
james card

james card -lrb- october 25 , 1915 -- january 16 , 2000 -rrb- was a film preservationist who established the motion picture collection at george eastman house , one of the major moving image archives in the united states .
in november 1948 , card joined the staff of the newly created george eastman house with the initial title of `` assistant to the curator '' , who was beaumont newhall .
in 1955 , he discovered louise brooks living as a recluse in new york city and persuaded her to move to rochester , new york , to be near the george eastman house .
from the museum 's inception until his retirement in 1977 , card built the collection and gave it an international identity .
