Kemp Niver

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.

This short film is an illustration of Niver's preservation process of paper print films. Renovare—from the Latin "to renew"—was an apt name for Niver's company, for the Academy Award-winning work that he and his colleagues accomplished has been vital to our collective understanding of cinema's evolution since its origins. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.