Bruce Lawton
- Producer
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Bruce Lawton is an all around motion picture and video specialist, who
hails from three generations of noted cinematographers (Don, Karl &
Rick Malkames) who have long been involved in film restoration and
preservation. His enthusiastic interest in "the family trade" took hold
at an early age (before he learned to speak actually!) and blossomed
into an insatiable appetite for early cinema - particularly classic
comedy. His tireless study of film throughout childhood prepared him
for a five year tenure with Killiam Shows in New York City where from
1988 to 1992, he served as archival director of the company's vast
collection of restored silent classics and archival materials. In the
past, he has produced and edited documentaries and presentations for
public and international television and presided over numerous home
video releases for Republic Pictures and The Voyager Company. Editor,
Andrew Marcus commissioned him to prepare special sequences which
appeared in the Merchant-Ivory productions, "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge" and
"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe". He provided archival material for the
AFI's "Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography", served as a
consultant on Jazzmedia's "The Chaplin Puzzle" and was the East Coast
coordinator on Chuck Workman's "The First 100 Years of Film" for HBO.
He discovered and provided material which made it possible for Turner
Entertainment to more fully restore Buster Keaton's "The Cameraman" and
has helped track down rare material for Michael Agee's series of Laurel
& Hardy silents on DVD. He has had the pleasure of working with Kevin
Brownlow and David Gill on the three-part television series, "D.W.
Griffith: The Father of Film" - as well as assisting them with their
restoration of "The Gold Rush" for The Chaplin Estate. Other related
activities have included producing archival transfers of over ten hours
of rare audio recordings of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz for a CD-ROM
produced by Lucie Arnaz and inspecting Paramount's film and video
vaults on both coasts in order to review their archival preservation
program. Since 1996, Bruce has been producing "live cinema" programs
with silent film accompanist, Ben Model. They co-founded "The Silent
Clowns Film Series" (the longest running silent film series in New York
City). Bruce is the vice-president of Silent Cinema Presentations,
Inc.- a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting and preserving all
aspects of the silent film experience as well as rescuing and restoring
the films themselves. As of 2002, Bruce is avidly working to save a
collection of unique production rushes and outtakes from the silent
classics of legendary Hollywood pioneer and superstar, Douglas
Fairbanks.
hails from three generations of noted cinematographers (Don, Karl &
Rick Malkames) who have long been involved in film restoration and
preservation. His enthusiastic interest in "the family trade" took hold
at an early age (before he learned to speak actually!) and blossomed
into an insatiable appetite for early cinema - particularly classic
comedy. His tireless study of film throughout childhood prepared him
for a five year tenure with Killiam Shows in New York City where from
1988 to 1992, he served as archival director of the company's vast
collection of restored silent classics and archival materials. In the
past, he has produced and edited documentaries and presentations for
public and international television and presided over numerous home
video releases for Republic Pictures and The Voyager Company. Editor,
Andrew Marcus commissioned him to prepare special sequences which
appeared in the Merchant-Ivory productions, "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge" and
"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe". He provided archival material for the
AFI's "Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography", served as a
consultant on Jazzmedia's "The Chaplin Puzzle" and was the East Coast
coordinator on Chuck Workman's "The First 100 Years of Film" for HBO.
He discovered and provided material which made it possible for Turner
Entertainment to more fully restore Buster Keaton's "The Cameraman" and
has helped track down rare material for Michael Agee's series of Laurel
& Hardy silents on DVD. He has had the pleasure of working with Kevin
Brownlow and David Gill on the three-part television series, "D.W.
Griffith: The Father of Film" - as well as assisting them with their
restoration of "The Gold Rush" for The Chaplin Estate. Other related
activities have included producing archival transfers of over ten hours
of rare audio recordings of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz for a CD-ROM
produced by Lucie Arnaz and inspecting Paramount's film and video
vaults on both coasts in order to review their archival preservation
program. Since 1996, Bruce has been producing "live cinema" programs
with silent film accompanist, Ben Model. They co-founded "The Silent
Clowns Film Series" (the longest running silent film series in New York
City). Bruce is the vice-president of Silent Cinema Presentations,
Inc.- a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting and preserving all
aspects of the silent film experience as well as rescuing and restoring
the films themselves. As of 2002, Bruce is avidly working to save a
collection of unique production rushes and outtakes from the silent
classics of legendary Hollywood pioneer and superstar, Douglas
Fairbanks.