"There're still a lot of old film collectors out there," he said.

Most prints were simply thrown away, sometimes "liberated" from garbage cans by film collectors in the pre-videocassette days.

Another source for Mr. Goldstein is film collectors, but they are sometimes a touchy bunch, he said.

At work, he has become an astute observer of his profession as well as a film collector and preservationist.

Most film collectors collect to film to view them and are not knowledgeable in film restoration.

In the end, he stumbled across a sale by a film collector and bought a print for $125.

With an improved soundtrack, the short was released to 16mm film collectors in 1980, along with four of his other short films.

One of England's leading film collectors, his private archive contained almost one thousand titles (at 1977).

David Bradley, American motion picture director, actor, film collector, and university instructor (born 1920)

Episodes have also been returned by private film collectors who had acquired 16 mm copies from various sources.