It owns the rights to an extensive collection of television and film footage dating back to 1895.
[1] Its library includes all genres of American Music on film [2] and video and historic archive footage derived from American Newsreels, Feature Films, Industrial shorts, home movies, out-takes and cartoons.
Lauro had previously worked for Archive Films as a researcher and Plagge for FOX MOVIETONE NEWS when they decided to form their own company.
[citation needed] In 1994 Plagge died, and Lauro formed a partnership with California producer Andrew Solt, the owner of the rights to The Ed Sullivan Show.
[citation needed] The Historic Films library is fully digitized and its material is viewable for research purposes on its official website.