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Daniel Talbot Papers, 1923-2010, bulk 1960-2008
495 linear feetSeries II: Theaters, 1960-2007
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This series consists of business and financial records of the movie theaters located in Manhattan's Upper West Side neighborhood that the Talbots operated: New Yorker Theater, Cinema Studio, Metro, and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, dating from 1960 to 2007. Some materials from the theaters may also be found in Series I: New Yorker Films, 1965-2008 as Talbot was also operating the distribution company in conjunction with the theaters.
Series I: New Yorker Films, 1965-2008
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New Yorker Films was established in 1965 by Daniel Talbot as an independent film distributor focused on the import of foreign films to the US and North America market. New Yorker Films acquired prints for first-time US distribution such as Bernardo Bertolucci's Before the Revolution (1964), Jean-Luc Godard's Les Carabiniers (1963), Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl (1966), Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). New Yorker Films was known for being the chief proponent in bringing New German, Latin American and Postcolonial African Cinema to American audiences and included French New Wave, Iranian, Asian and Eastern European filmmakers as well. New Yorker Films spurred the growth of educational film societies and independent cinemas throughout the United States, providing support and guidance to the non-theatrical cinema market. In 2009, New Yorker Films was sold to Madstone Films.