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Filmmaker Pierce Rafferty has spent his entire life living in or near New York City. Pierce comes from a rather influential New York family. His grandfather was Marvin Pierce, president and later chairman of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's magazines Redbook and McCall's. And his mother, Barbara Bush's elder sister, was a Cover girl model during the 50's. Another ancestor, an early New England colonist named Thomas Pierce, was also the ancestor to Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. Pierce attended private school at Phillips Academy Andover and went on to continue his studies at Yale University in the family tradition.

Pierce has also been fortunate to indulge in his life-long love of collecting and filmmaking within one career. He helped pioneer the film archive industry in the early 80's when he acquired several vaults of pre-1967 out-take footage from the Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. studios. Pierce spent more than a decade organizing and catalogueing vaults all over NYC that were filled to the ceilings with cans of film. Pierce also spent considerable capital resources restoring 10,000's of feet of disintegrating or damaged nitrate film he considered to be "gems of Americana" including the footage he used in producing the cult classic film The Atomic Cafe as well as footage from the widely recognizable Hindenburg disaster. His company, Petrified Films, Inc., licensed archive footage to producers and directors of film, television, and commercials before being acquired by The Image Bank. The Image Bank was later acquired by Getty Images.

Trivia

He and his brother Kevin
helped teach the craft of filmmaking to Michael Moore during the production of Roger & Me
in (1989)
.
Teamed up with his brother and Jayne Loader to produce the documentary The Atomic Cafe
(1982)
.
Was formerly married to Margaret Crimmins, a well-known sound editor in the filmmaking industry.
Pierce and Margaret were among some of the original "artist-pioneers" to populate the then unknown NYC neighborhoods of SoHo and the Gansvoort Market better known as the The Meatpacking District.
Peirce kept a large collection of vintage still photos and postcards after selling Petrified Films and affectionately nick-named his new company Mount Mercer in reference to the 6th floor walk-up loft he lived in in SoHo.
Collaborated with Diane Keaton
in the mid 90's, supplying vintage imagery for one of her photography books.

Filmography

As Director, Producer: #The Atomic Cafe (1982) (co-producer) As writer: #Heavy Petting (1989) Miscellaneous: #The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998) (archival footage) #Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1994) (thanks) #Yes: 9012 Live (1986) (V) (archival film and photo supplier) #The Atomic Cafe (1982) (archival researcher)

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