About Thanhouser Company

Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc.

Ned Thanhouser is president of Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. He is the grandson of founders Gertrude and Edwin Thanhouser and has been actively involved in the research, acquisition, preservation and publication of education materials related to the early silent motion picture era since 1986.

Mr. Thanhouser has been active in film preservation related activities since 1986 and was a member of the 1994 NEA/AFI Film Preservation Grant Board. With his family, he established in 1988 the Thanhouser Film Preservation Trust at the Library of Congress to fund the acquisition and preservation of nitrate-based Thanhouser films.

He has worked with film archives around the world, including The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, California; The National Film and Television Archive, The British Film Institute, London, England; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; and The Netherlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland, to locate and assure the preservation of surviving Thanhouser films.

Working with film archives and private collectors, Mr. Thanhouser has produced 14 DVD discs containing 57 surviving Thanhouser films making these rare titles available to researchers, scholars and film lovers after almost 100 years since they were last seen by the general public.

Mr. Thanhouser also worked with film historian and author, Mr. Q. David Bowers to publish on CD-ROM his exhaustive book on the Thanhouser Film enterprise: Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History.

Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in 1995 that uses funds generated through the sale of video and CD-ROM products and contributions from public and private sources to support ongoing identification, cataloguing and preservation of Thanhouser films and ephemera.

Contact information:
Edwin ("Ned") Thanhouser, President
Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc.
8770 NW Kearney Street
Portland, OR 97229-5366
FAX: (503) 226-7961
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