The George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York, as well as the The Louis B. Mayer Conservation Center owned by the George Eastman House, comprises over 23,000 titles, including features, shorts, documentaries, newsreels, and paper artifacts. the collection is known for its silent film collection. In 1996 the Eastman House founded the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation.
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