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Dennis Nyback
Born
(1953-07-30)July 30, 1953
Yacolt, Washington
Died
October 2, 2022(2022-10-02) (aged 69)
Portland, Oregon
Nationality
American
Occupation(s)
Film archivist, filmmaker, historian
Dennis Nyback (July 30, 1953 – October 2, 2022) was an American independent film archivist, found footage filmmaker, historian and writer.
Nyback operated the Dennis Nyback Film Archive, which has over 13,000 short films, from 1895 onward, mostly in 16mm. It is located in Portland, Oregon. Working from his archive he created over 300 found footage film programs[1] that he showed extensively in Europe, Great Britain, Scandinavia and the United States[2] He was a guest at film festivals in: Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, the United States,[3] and other countries. He owned and operated movie theaters in Seattle,[4][5] New York[6] and Portland,[7] Oregon.
Dennis Nyback (left) and Jack Stevenson in 1993.
Every autumn since 2014 he gave a walking tour of the former movie palace and nickelodeon sites in downtown Portland as part of the Portland Film Festival.[8]
^"Dennis Nyback's film tour of Portland". knowyourcity.org. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
^"A moment with ... Dennis Nyback, film collector". seattlepi.com. September 5, 2007. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
^"Entertainment & the Arts – Pike Street: Movies Off the Beaten Track – Seattle Times Newspaper". nwsource.com. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
^"cinefamily, Seattle's Pike Street Cinema, photo by Dennis..." tumblr.com. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
^"Rosebud Movie Palace". cinematreasures.org. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
^"George Kuchar: A First-Person Life – Bright Lights Film Journal". Brightlightsfilm.com. September 8, 2011. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
^Coleman, Ben. "Paranoia Film Festival | Film". Portland Mercury. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
^"Remembering Portland's historic theaters in walking film tour downtown: 2014 Portland Film Festival". August 31, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
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Dies at 57". TheWrap. Archived from the original on October 4, 2022. Nyback, Dennis (March 5, 2018). "History in the Age of the Internet: Setting the Record...
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(Music)". HBO. Retrieved September 21, 2015. Cullen 2006, pp. 797–799. Nyback, Dennis W. "Miss Lee Morse: The First Recorded Jazz Singer" (PDF). Washington...
Governors Island". NBC New York. February 3, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2023. Nyback, Glenn (February 3, 2012). "Civil War cannonball found on NYC's Governors...
‘Pores, fingerprints: it’s all there’". Toronto Star, May 3, 2018. Harvey, Dennis (January 25, 2018). "Sundance Film Review: 'Summer of '84'". Variety. Penske...
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