Martin Scorsese Argues For Film Preservation in 2013 Jefferson Lecture

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Drawing upon films that included Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane,” Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” and Thomas Edison’s short of two cats engaged in a boxing match, Martin Scorsese made the case on Monday evening that Americans “need to take pride in our cinema, our great American art form” and that all films need to be preserved, regardless of their box-office performance or apparent cultural merit.