Historic Films Archive is a video archive operating from New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. It owns the rights to an extensive collection of television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 and film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 footage dating back to 1895.

History

The company originated as a Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

 based research archive named Associated Researchers and Image Quest; it was founded by Joe Lauro and Richard Plagge in 1991. Lauro had previously worked for Archive Films as a researcher and decided to form his own company. They soon realized that licensing footage paid more than just researching where to find it. In 1993, the company moved to East Hampton

East Hampton (town), New York

The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York...

, close to Plagge's home.

In 1994 Plagge died, and Lauro formed a partnership with California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 producer Andrew Solt, the owner of the rights to the "Ed Sullivan Show." They converted ARIQ into the Historic Film Archive in 1997.

Collection

• The Ed Sullivan Show
  The Ed Sullivan Show
  The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
  
  
• Steve Allen Show
• Beat Club/Musikladen
  Musikladen
  Der Musikladen was a West German music television programme that ran from December 13, 1972 to November 29, 1984. The show continued the 1960s Beat-Club under a new name, and in turn was replaced by Extratour.-History:...
  
  
• Center For Southern Folklore
• Classic Comedy Library
• Classic TV Commercial Collection
• Dance Party USA
  Dance Party USA
  Dance Party USA is an American dance television show that aired on cable's USA Network from April 12, 1986, to June 27, 1992. It was originally a half-hour, but was expanded to an hour in 1987....
  
  /Dancin' On Air
• Danish Broadcasting (DR) Archive
• D.A. Pennebaker Collection
• Disco Magic/Disco '77
• Folklife Productions Library
• Metropolitan Entertainment
• Music Video Collection
• The Ernest Tubb Show
  Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...
  
  
• The Behind The Scenes Collection
• Jubilee Showcase
• Live From The Bitter End
  The Bitter End
  The Bitter End is a nightclub in New York City's Greenwich Village. It opened its doors in 1961 at 147 Bleecker Street under the auspices of owner Fred Weintraub. The club changed its name to The Other End during the 1970s...
  
  
• Moving Images Library
• Midsummer's Rock Festival
• Murray "The K" Archive
  Murray the K
  Murray Kaufman , professionally known as Murray the K, was an influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• Pathe News, Inc.
  Pathe News
  Pathé Newsreels were produced from 1910 until the 1970s, when production of newsreels was in general stopped. Pathé News today is known as British Pathé and its archive of over 90,000 reels is fully digitised and online.-History:...
  
  
• PM Magazine
  PM Magazine
  PM/Evening Magazine was a television series with a news and entertainment format. It was syndicated to stations throughout the United States...
  
  
• Rollin On The River
  Kenny Rogers
  Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
  
  
• Rainbow Quest
• Rhythm & Blues Awards Shows/Ebony Affair
• Sam Lay Blues Collection
• Storyville Jazz Collection
• Sound Stage
• The Soupy Sales Collection
  Soupy Sales
  Soupy Sales was an American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales; a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his...
  
  
• Southern Telenews Library (1958-1978)
• Studio 54 Collection
  Studio 54
  Studio 54 was a highly popular discotheque from 1977 until 1991, located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York, USA. It was originally the Gallo Opera House, opening in 1927, after which it changed names several times, eventually becoming a CBS radio and television studio. In 1977 it...
  
  
• The Alan Lomax Collection
  Alan Lomax
  Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
  
  
• The Beat
• The Dallas Pop Festival
• The David Susskind Show
  David Susskind
  David Susskind was a producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a pioneer TV talk show host.-Personal:...
  
  
• The Hagermann Beatles Collection
• The Hy Lit Show
• The Jam Handy Collection
• The Last Of The Wild
• The Rock & Blues Library
• Rock America
• Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
  Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
  Don Kirshner's Rock Concert is a television music variety show that ran during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Don Kirshner and syndicated to television stations...
  
  
• The Woodstock Collection
• Tribute Grand Ole Opry Stars of the 50's
  Grand Ole Opry
  The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...
  
  
• Woodstock '99
• United News Collection
• Universal Newsreels (1929-67)
• Vidicom Collection (1980s and 90's)