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WRS Collection

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WRS Collection

The WRS Motion Picture and Video Lab Collection came to the Archive in December 2006. WRS opened in 1952 in Pittsburgh as a full-service lab with production, post-production, restoration, and storage services. When it closed its 185,000 square foot facility, the Archive acquired a large number of prints and film elements of features, documentaries, shorts, industrials, and theater snipes, totaling 267 in all. Among the items in the collection are duplicate negatives of several Otto Preminger films, including “The Moon Is Blue” (1953), “The Man With The Golden Arm” (1955), “Saint Joan” (1957), and “The Cardinal” (1963); elements of Charles Guggenheim’s Oscar-nominated documentary short “Monument to the Dream” (1967); and nitrate prints of the Oscar-nominated documentary shorts “Soldiers of the Sky” and “Life of a Thoroughbred,” both from 1941.