Dennis Nyback sits in the back of a truck, with approximately 30 film canisters (Picture by Gary Lacher)

Robert Ham (Oct 10, 2022): “ … Nyback leaves a lot behind with his death. Not just the memories that his fellow cinephiles have of his obsessively curated programs of vintage animation, features, and Scopitones, the proto-music video format from the ’60s that were once played on a kind of visual jukebox. But Nyback also left behind a vast collection of analog film that he spent the better part of his adult life acquiring—an archive that his longtime friend and housemate S.W. Conser has only begun to reckon with. …“ | From: „Remembering Film Archivist and Former Clinton Street Theater Owner Dennis Nyback“ –> https://www.portlandmercury.com/movies-and-tv/2022/10/10/46124200/remembering-film-archivist-and-former-clinton-street-theater-owner-dennis-nyback
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S.W. Conser (October 14, 2022):“ … Nyback, who has died at 69, toured his collections of old films internationally … [He] was best-known for his traveling film shows, which he toured across the country as well as to Europe and Asia. “I can actually come up with a film program on almost any subject a person can name,” he often boasted. His strong belief in the preservation of analog film and audio led him to rescue reels that were headed to the dumpster, and to hunt down obscure films in venues that ranged from Paris flea markets to eBay. His collection of features, cartoons, and short subjects numbered in the thousands, and in many cases boasted the only known print of a film. …“ | https://www.orartswatch.org/remembering-film-archivist-dennis-nyback/
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“ … He operates the Dennis Nyback Film Archive, which has over 13,000 short films, from 1895 onward, mostly in 16mm. It is located in Portland, Oregon. … “ | https://alchetron.com/Dennis-Nyback
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„… [One] of his [ ] programs that have played the United States and Europe …[was] … „The Effect of Dada and Surrealism on Hollywood Movies of the 1930s“ …“ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nyback
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“ … In der Palenke holt(e) der Amerikaner Dennis Nyback vergessene Helden des Stummfilms zurück auf die Leinwand. Die im Schatten von Charly Chaplin, Harold Lloyd und Buster Keaton verschwundenen Komiker Charley Chase, Snub Pollard, Larry Semon, Mack Swain, Billy Franey, Bobby Vernon zeigen hier wieder ihr Können und ihren bösen Leinwandwitz. Verloren geglaubte Perlen des Kintopps in gepflegter Kneipenatmosphäre. 13.5., 21 Uhr, Palenke (Kiel, Gerhardstr.) … “ | Aus: „Highlights präsentiert von der Kieler Filmgruppe Chaos“ (Jahr/Datum ?) | http://www.infomedia-sh.org/index.php?page=nl_0403_chaos_film_praesentiert
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