Marc Wanamaker

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Marc Wanamaker is a walking encyclopedia of Hollywood legends and lore. He grew up in the community and soon realized there was history all around him. He began to amass a collection of rare photographs which eventually numbered in the thousands. Marc has been an invaluable resource for authors, scholars, documentarians, and even the movie studios themselves. His newest book, written with Steven Bingen, is called Hollywood Behind the Lens: Treasures from the Bison Archives. Leonard conducted this interview without Jesse but luckily Marc never runs out of things to say about his favorite subject.

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0:29.3	Hi everybody, I'm Leonard Malton and you're listening to Malton on movies minus
0:40.0	Jesty, minus my co-host and unavoidably detained by her right now hyperactive, two and a half-year-old
0:51.6	daughter, Daisy.
0:53.5	So I'm going to go it alone, but I can go it alone with this
0:55.6	guy. Our guest today is an old friend and a valued colleague, Mark Wanamaker. Welcome, Mark.
1:04.1	Yes, thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. Well, I think it's fair to say we're
1:10.3	overdue in doing this.
1:11.6	Mark is a walking encyclopedia of Hollywood history.
1:18.6	He has many other things. He wears many hats, but that's one of them.
1:23.6	And he is so well known within the field that studios come to him for answers and for help
1:36.8	and to find photographs of their history. He's got it, he has, he has amassed so much paper material, so much firsthand primary
1:51.4	resource material, and thousands upon thousands of still photos. And how many of those
1:58.4	photos did you sell to the Academy? It was about 80,000.
2:03.6	But how many are there, how many have you reaccumulated?
2:10.6	I accumulated about 350,000 originally.
2:14.6	Wow.
2:15.6	And it's a long story of how that all happened.
2:20.5	But basically, it's not just stills.
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