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Director Born: 1951 in Brooklyn Biography:Ira Gallen has been almost single-handedly responsible for saving and preserving a big chunk of television history, both as an archivist/collector and as a video and television producer/director. Born in Brooklyn, NY, Ira Herman Gallen became a film enthusiast while in his teens, and for several years studied with and assisted film historian Seymour Stern. Gallen was fascinated by the silent era, especially the work of D.W. Griffith, and started showing films while in high school. He also began collecting films, and not just feature-length movies -- Gallen found that among the flotsam and jetsam of the 16 mm collecting world were odd instructional and industrial films, and television-related material, including episodes of old series and commercials. It was these categories of material, more than feature films, that ended up comprising the major part of a collection that eventually encompassed over... Full Biography
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