David Pierce

David Pierce is an archivist and historian. As Assistant Chief and COO of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress, he is responsible for the acquisition, conservation, documentation, and digitization of the world’s largest public archives of motion pictures, television, radio, and recorded sound. Pierce is the author of The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912–1929, published for the National Film Preservation Board in 2013, and he is the coauthor (with James Layton) of The Dawn of Technicolor (2015) and King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman’s Technicolor Revue (2016).  He founded the Media History Digital Library, and his articles have appeared in American Film, Film Comment, American Cinematographer, Film History, The Moving Image, and The Journal of Film Preservation.