David Shepard (film preservationist)

David Shepard (b. 1940, New York City) is a film preservationist whose company, Film Preservation Associates, is responsible for many high quality video versions of silent films. Some come from the Blackhawk Films library (also owned by David Shepard) and others from materials owned by private collectors and film archives around the world.

Shepard began restoring films when he joined the American Film Institute in 1968 as one of their first staff members. In 1987, he bought the Blackhawk Films library.

Affiliates

• Film Preservation Associates, Serge Bromberg (Lobster Films)
• Film Preservation Associates, Benjamin Scott Baker (Assistant to Producer)

List of films restored by Shepard

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
• A Farewell to Arms (1932)
• A Woman of Paris (1923)
• Aelita (1924)
• The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
• America (1924)
• Atlantis (1913)
• Destiny (1921)
• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914)
• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• The Black Pirate (1926)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
• Carmen (1915)
• The Cat and the Canary (1927)
• The Cheat (1915)
• City Lights (1931)
• Cobra (1925)
• Convict 13 (1920)
• The Coward (1915)
• Destiny (1921)
• Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
• Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
• Earth (1930)
• The Emperor Jones (1933)
• Faces of Children (1925)
• Faust (1926)
• Foolish Wives (1922)
• Flirting With Fate (1916)
• The Gaucho (1927)
• The General (1926)
• Go West (1925)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• His New Job (1915)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
• The Indian Tomb (1921)
• Intolerance (1916)
• The Italian (1915)
• J'accuse (1919)
• Kean (1924)
• The Kid (1921)
• A King in New York (1957)
• The Last Laugh (1924)
• Leaves from Satan's Book (1921)
• Long Pants (1927)
• The Lost World (1925) restored version released April 6, 2001
• The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
• Male and Female (1919)
• Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
• The Mark of Zorro (1920)
• The Marriage Circle (1924)
• The Married Virgin (1918)
• The Matrimaniac (1916)
• Meet John Doe (1941)
• Modern Times (1936)
• The Mollycoddle (1920)
• Monte Cristo (1922)
• Moods of the Sea (1941)
• Nanook of the North (1922)
• The Navigator (1924)
• Nosferatu (1922) restored version released January 2, 2001
• Orphans of the Storm (1921)
• Our Daily Bread (1934)
• Outside the Law (1920)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• The Pilgrim (1923)
• Prison Train (1938)
• Regeneration (1915)
• Robin Hood (1922)
• La Roue (1923)
• Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
• Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)
• Shadows (1922)
• The Sheik (1921)
• Siegfried (1924)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
• The Son of the Sheik (1926)
• Steamboat Bill (1928)
• Storm Over Asia (1928)
• Strike (1925)
• The Strong Man (1926)
• Sunrise (1927)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
• The Three Musketeers (1921)
• Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
• Tol'able David (1921)
• Traffic in Souls (1913)
• Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
• True Heart Susie (1919)
• Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
• Les Vampires (1915)
• The Volga Boatman (1926)
• Within Our Gates (1920)

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Result
1989	International Documentary Association	Preservation and Scholarship Award	Won
1999	Saturn Award	The President's Memorial Award	Won
2000	San Francisco International Film Festival	Mel Novikoff Award	Won
2005	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Special Citation	Won
2006	National Society of Film Critics	Special Award	Won
2011	Denver Silent Film Festival	Lifetime Achievement Award	Won

External links

• David Shepard at the Internet Movie Database