Film Chest
TypePrivate
IndustryFilm, Home Video, Television
FoundedNew York, New York (2000)
HeadquartersBridgeport, Connecticut, United States
Area served
North America, South America, Europe, Asia
Key people
Ralph Stevens, Ian Stone (principals)
Websitefilmchestmediagroup.com

Film Chest, is a privately held media company that specializes in the archiving, restoring, licensing and distribution of films. It is headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Film Chest distributes consumer DVDs, and sells digital content via online outlets including Apple's iTunes Store, Amazon.com, and Hulu. It also licenses its movies to TV networks, including American Movie Classics and Turner Classic Movies,[1] and for use as stock footage. According to the company's website, it services "high-quality content for use in broadcast television, film projects, video streaming, distribution, public television, cable or other professional needs."[2]

History

The company was founded in 2000 by partners Phil Hopkins and Ralph Stevens, and has since amassed one of the largest privately owned film libraries, containing approximately 2,000 film and TV titles. The titles comprise rare science-fiction, horror and action-adventure films (such as The Devil Bat), cartoons, and Oscar-winning classics like Orson Welles’ The Stranger, for which Film Chest completed the first-ever HD restoration.[3] A recent Film Chest coup was finding the 1958 TV series “Decoy,”[4] starring cult actress Beverly Garland, that few people had ever heard of because it was such a rarity. Despite its obscurity, the show was a landmark on two counts. It was the first series centered on a female cop and the first TV show to be shot on the streets of New York City.[5]

In 2010, the company purchased a 45,000-foot warehouse in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where it plans to store and digitize film collections.[6] The company recently added a public component to its work with a retail store, The Archive, which sells Film Chest videos and other carefully curated titles, as well as hundreds of vinyl record rarities and a screening room. The store also stocks posters, T-shirts and movie ephemera.

Select titles

References

  1. ↑ "Film Chest Media Group". filmchestmediagroup.com. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  2. ↑ Film Chest official website
  3. ↑ "About Film Chest - from the company's web page". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
  4. ↑ "'Pink Panther' and 'Decoy' Return on Disc". The New York Times. 2017-09-01. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  5. ↑ "Finding and restoring old movies in Bridgeport". Connecticut Post. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  6. ↑ Varnon, Rob - Stamford Advocate (August 18, 2010) “Film Vault Comes to Park City”


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