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How I Got Into Film Restoration with Special Guest Jeff McCarty

How I Got Into Film Restoration with Special Guest Jeff McCarty27 Apr 202553 min

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Perf Damage, we sit down with Jeff McCarty, a Senior Preservation Manager on Charlotte’s team at Paramount, to talk about his incredible journey to get into film preservation. Jeff shares the story of how he got his start from attending the USC film school, to working at Technicolor and he walks us through the many twists and turns that led him to Paramount. Along the way, he’s worked on some major restorations, including The Godfather (1972), the silent cl...