S04E12: Tracey Goessel — The Movie Doctor

Tracey Goessel's first passion was medicine. Inspired, in part, by Star Trek, and with a goal of financial independence, she attended medical school and had a successful career as a clinician and trauma doctor before becoming an entrepreneur. Her success as an entrepreneur allowed Tracey to pursue her other passion: silent film. Her love for Douglas Fairbanks Sr. led her to write First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks, considered by many to be the key biography of the early Hollywood legend, and in 2014, Tracey founded the Film Preservation Society. The goal of the organization is to rescue all 460+ Biograph films directed by D.W. Griffith between 1908 and 1913. We recently spoke with Tracey about her passion for silent film, how her career as a physician has informed her work as a film historian, how technology is aiding her preservation work, and why film preservation is important. Episode Links www.filmpreservationsociety.org Twitter Facebook Host: Marina Antunes Opening & Closing Credits by: Michael Edlund Produced & Edited by: Joshua Peterman ©2022 Spark CG Society · All Rights Reserved. Thank you to our sponsors! TERABYTE: Creative BC. MEGABYTE: AMPD Technologies · Animal Logic · Capilano University · Netflix · TrickFilm. KILOBYTE: Atomic Cartoons · Bardel Entertainment · BRON Media Corp. · DNEG · Image Engine · Mainframe Studios · Sony Pictures Imageworks. BYTE: AMD Canada · Animasia Animation · Centre for Digital Media · CMPA BC · DigiBC · Foundry · Ghost VFX · NGX Interactive · NOX VFX · Scanline VFX · The Little Dev Shop · Unreal Engine · Vancouver Film School · Versatile Media · Wacom Store Canada. PARTNERS: ACM SIGGRAPH. ORGANIZERS: Spark CG Society · Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH.