Anthony L’Abbate

Biography

Anthony L’Abbate is Preservation Manager in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum. He graduated from The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in 1999. L’Abbate was employed as a laboratory technician at Cinema Arts, Inc., Newfoundland, PA, from 1999 to 2001. He returned to the Eastman Museum in 2001, as their Stills Archivist. He moved over to preservation in 2007, as Preservation Officer, and was promoted to Manager in 2017. During his five-year tenure as Stills Archivist, he supervised the scanning of hundreds of still images and frame captures from preserved films. He has overseen the preservation and restoration of Roaring Rails (1924), Jazzmania (1923), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) and Huckleberry Finn (1920). Recent restoration projects include The Clutch of Circumstance (1918) and the reconstruction of The Unknown (1927).