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Thursday, Jan 17, 2002

blackhawk downs

"But now certain members of the MoMA brass — Glenn Lowry, the Modern's director, and Mary Lea Bandy, head of the Department of Film and Media — have shut down the Stills Archive. They are burying the collection in a patch of earth 2-1/2 hours by car from Manhattan: in Hamlin, Pa., where the Museum stores its films. With this one ill-considered stroke, a significant portion of our collective cultural memory was just struck with amnesia. The decision echoes the final words in "Kane," when the cynical butler snaps, to a workman holding an old sled, "Throw that junk." And Rosebud goes into the fire."

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