James Katz : Preserving Film History

Summary: This week we welcome our special guest James Katz. James is the former President and Founder of the Universal Pictures Classics Division. He has worked in many different areas over the years, including film distribution, publicity, marketing and working as a producer and as executive producer on several films. But more then anything James has made a monumental impact on film history through his preservation and re-release of five Alfred Hitchcock’s films in the early 1980s.