- Pierce Rafferty
Filmmaker Pierce Rafferty (born
1952 ) grew up in Connecticut and moved toNew York City in 1982. Some of his relatives include grandfatherMarvin Pierce , president and later chairman of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's magazinesRedbook andMcCall's ; and an early New England colonist named Thomas Pierce, also an ancestor toFranklin Pierce , the 14th President of the United States. Pierce attended Phillips Academy Andover and briefly attendedYale University .Pierce and his former spouse, Margaret Crimmins, founded
Petrified Films, Inc. in 1984, a pioneering independent stock film footage library that held theElmer Dyer Film Library ,Warner Bros. andColumbia Pictures ' feature film outtakes.Pierce spent more than a decade organizing and cataloguing vaults all over NYC that were filled to the ceilings with cans of film. Located in New York City's The Meatpacking District, Petrified licensed archival footage to film, television, and commercial producers before being acquired by
The Image Bank .The Image Bank was later acquired byGetty Images . With his brotherKevin Rafferty andJayne Loader , Pierce made the cult classic filmThe Atomic Cafe (1982 ).He is now Director of the Henry L. Ferguson Museum,
Fishers Island, New York Miscellanea
* He and his brother Kevin helped teach the craft of filmmaking to
Michael Moore during the production ofRoger & Me in (1989).* Collaborated with
Diane Keaton in the mid 90's, supplying vintage imagery for one of her photography books.* Pierce's company, Petrified Films Inc., contributed archival footage to the 1995 documentary film
Trinity and Beyond , a film often compared to Pierce's own documentary,The Atomic Cafe .* Is the nephew of Barbara Bush and first cousins with President
George W. Bush .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)External links
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