WHYY-FM - October 5, 2010
WHYY-FM
The head of Temple's Film Lab, Leonard Guercio, recently discovered a closet full of old film canisters containing reels of student work dating back to the 1960s. He is personally transferring each of those dusty films into a digital format. Including the work of people who would become famous, those early films will soon be screened publicly, and the digital transfers will be broadcast on TUTV, Temple's new cable TV station. Among them are documentaries by Leo Trombetta — he edited the most recent episode of "Mad Men" — and a serious film by comedian Bob Saget. "In the future they will be valuable because they will be a document of what our students did," says Guercio. "Not every film is stellar, but it's a good gauge of what students were thinking about at the time."