Patrick Montgomery

Patrick Montgomery was born in Cincinnati{{cite news |last=Nager |first=Larry |date=February 28, 1987 |title=The Beatles are back again |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123391906/ |work=The Cincinnati Post |pages=6B, 8B |via=Newspapers.com}} [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123391771/] on September 13, 1949.{{cite news|title='Compleat Beatles' tells story and sounds great, too|first=Dale|last=Stevens|work=The Cincinnati Post|date=February 8, 1984|page=8D|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115365499/|via=Newspapers.com}} He graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Finance degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1971.{{citation needed |date=April 2016}}

Montgomery began his career in 1972 as a marketing executive at Audio Visual Enterprises, Inc, a firm founded by former Cincinnati Symphony General Manager Lloyd Haldeman to distribute opera and ballet films for home viewing on videodisc.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sAgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=lloyd+haldeman+audio+visual+enterprises&pg=PA22|title=Billboard|date=26 June 1971}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2wgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=lloyd+haldeman+audio+visual+enterprises&pg=PA25|title=Billboard|date=12 June 1971}}

Montgomery moved to New York in 1974 and landed a job with Killiam Shows, Inc., a company founded in the early 1950s by Paul Killiam to acquire, restore and distribute American silent films and produce television programs about them.{{cite web|url=http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=7167|website=NitrateVille.com |title=Paul Killiam's silent film narration|date=September 11, 2010}}{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1311885641/film-notes-and-queries-the-killiam-collection-a|title="Film Notes and Queries: THE KILLIAM COLLECTION: A NEW SOURCE OF VINTAGE SILENTS" by Welsh, J M - Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Summer 1974|access-date=2015-11-30|archive-date=2015-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208154925/https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1311885641/film-notes-and-queries-the-killiam-collection-a|url-status=dead}} While with Killiam, he was involved in the restoration and distribution of many classic films, including F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927) and It (1927), starring Clara Bow.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018455/|title=Sunrise (1927)|date=4 November 1927|work=IMDb}}

Montgomery was also a founding member of the Non-Theatrical Film Distributors Association in 1974. His first film as a producer/director (with Luciano Martenengo) was George Melies: Cinema Magician (1978), produced for Blackhawk Films,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sr7eCQAAQBAJ&dq=patrick+montgomery+archivist&pg=PA468|title=European Silent Films on Video|isbn=9781476610214|last1=Parrill|first1=William B.|date=8 June 2015}} followed by The Man You Loved To Hate (1979), a co-production with the BBC and Norddeutscher Rundfunk.{{Cite news|date=2020-12-31|title=Movie Reviews|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/reviews/movies|access-date=2021-01-04|issn=0362-4331}}{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/video/docStroheimManLovedHV.html|website=Silent Era |title=Home Video Reviews}}{{cite web|url=https://www.fandor.com/films/the_man_you_loved_to_hate|title=Watch The Man You Loved to Hate, the Biography film by Patrick Montgomery - Fandor|work=Fandor}} In his New York Times review, Vincent Canby called The Man You Loved To Hate “cinema history of both entertaining and high order.”

In 1979, Montgomery formed Archive Film Productions, Inc. In 1980 he produced the documentary John Schelsinger Directs the Tales of Hoffmann for the newly formed Bravo Channel and in 1981 served as the line producer for an independent feature film called New York Beat, starring a then unknown Jean Michel Basquiat, which was eventually released in 2000 as Downtown 81.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/movies/film-review-basquiat-and-friends-in-creative-serendipity.html|title=Basquiat And Friends, In Creative Serendipity|date=13 July 2001|work=The New York Times|first=Dave |last=Kehr}}{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/popcandy/2014/06/26/downtown-81-basquiat/11409143/|title='Downtown 81': The classic '80s film gets restored|first=Whitney |last=Matheson|date=26 June 2014|work=USA TODAY}} In 1982, he directed and produced The Compleat Beatles with Delilah Films, which was distributed by MGM/UA Home Video.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWRyBAAAQBAJ&dq=patrick+montgomery+archivist&pg=PA199|title=The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four [2 volumes]|isbn=9780313391729|last1=Womack|first1=Kenneth|date=30 June 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jSQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=the+compleat+beatles+patrick+montgomery&pg=PT65|title=Billboard|date=18 December 1982}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BSQEAAAAMBAJ|title=Billboard|last=|date=1982-11-20|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|language=en}} and released theatrically by Teleculture, Inc in 1984. The Compleat Beatles was one of the first original productions to be awarded Platinum status by the RIAA for sales of over $2 million in the nascent home video market. This was followed by Rock and Roll: The Early Days (1984) and British Rock: The First Wave (1985), both released by RCA/Columbia Home Video.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Rocknroll-TheEarlyDays|title=Rock'n'Roll - The Early Days|work=Internet Archive|year=1984 }}

In 1985, he served as Archival Consultant on eighteen documentaries produced for Pepsi’s A Walk Thru Rock touring show, and in the same capacity on the NBC Network tribute Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary (1986).{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8CMEAAAAMBAJ&dq=a+walk+thru+rock+pepsi&pg=PT68|title=Billboard|date=27 July 1985}} In 1987 he produced the TV special We’ll Be Right Back about classic television commercials for Nickelodeon, and in 1989 produced Creepy Classics, an original video release for Hallmark Cards about classic horror films.

From 1993 to 1995, he served as Executive Producer on a number of programs for A & E's Biography series, including films about Bing Crosby,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0969808/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_1|title="Biography" Bing Crosby: America's Crooner (TV Episode 1993)|date=14 December 1993|work=IMDb}} Sid Caesar,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024947/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_1|title="Biography" Sid Caesar: Television's Comedy Genius (TV Episode 1994)|date=12 April 1994|work=IMDb}} Sammy Davis Jr,{{Citation|last=Shipley|first=N. Brice|title=Sammy Davis Jr.: Mr. Entertainment|date=1995-02-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526136/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_1|type=Documentary, Biography|others=Bill Cosby, Sammy Davis Jr, Elvera Davis, Eydie Gormé|publisher=Millenial Entertainment|access-date=2021-01-04}} Humphrey Bogart,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124749/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_3|title=Humphrey Bogart: Behind the Legend (1994)|author=WeatherViolet|date=9 June 1994|work=IMDb}} and Milton Berle.{{Citation|last=Jack|first=Del|title=Milton Berle: Mr. Television|date=1994-02-15|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0979918/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_4|type=Documentary|others=Milton Berle|publisher=Millenial Entertainment, Archive Films|access-date=2021-01-04}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/12/arts/review-television-how-a-gift-for-accents-flowered-into-genius.html|title=Review/Television; How a Gift For Accents Flowered Into Genius|date=12 April 1994|work=The New York Times|first=John J. |last=O'Connor}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/15/arts/review-television-milton-berle-mr-television-a-zillion-gags-not-counting-repeats.html|title=Review/Television: Milton Berle -- Mr. Television; A Zillion Gags (Not Counting Repeats)|first=John J. |last=O'Connor|date=15 March 1994|newspaper=The New York Times}}

In the mid-1980s, Montgomery turned his focus from making documentaries to building an archival stock footage library called Archive Films. By the early 1990s, the company had become the largest in the U.S., with its headquarters in New York City and satellite offices in London, Paris, Stockholm, Cologne, Amsterdam, Milan and Tokyo.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/09/business/selling-history-reel-by-reel-to-today-s-media.html|title=Selling History, Reel By Reel, To Today's Media|first=Terry |last=Pristin|date=9 October 1995|work=The New York Times}}{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/07/16/archivist-has-the-past-at-his-fingertips/|title=Archivist Has The Past At His Fingertips|website=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|first=Kenneth R. |last=Clark|date=July 16, 1992}} He then began to branch out into archival stock photos and acquired the photo agencies Frederick Lewis, Inc and Pictorial Parade, Inc and several other photo collections to form Archive Photos.{{cite web|url=http://blog.timsoter.com/archive-photos/|title=Archive Photos. : Tim Soter… blog.}} In addition to its own collections, Archive Photos also represented Reuters, The New York Times, The George Eastman House and others for archival photo licensing.{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/REUTERS+NEWS+PICTURES+AVAILABLE+THROUGH+ARCHIVE+PHOTOS-a017554510|title=REUTERS NEWS PICTURES AVAILABLE THROUGH ARCHIVE PHOTOS}}{{cite web|url=http://www.documentary.org/column/short-takes-december-1997|title=Short Takes, December 1997|work=International Documentary Association}}{{cite web|url=http://www.documentary.org/column/short-takes-december-1999|title=Short Takes, December 1999|work=International Documentary Association}}{{cite web|url=http://www.documentary.org/column/short-takes-december-1996|title=Short Takes, December 1996|work=International Documentary Association}}{{cite web|url=http://adage.com/article/news/collected-bargaining-stock-companies-expand-fickle-demands-images-esoteric-meets-eclectic-a-range-calm-cool-collections/94047/|title=Collected Bargaining As Stock Companies Expand To Keep Up With Fickle Demands For New (And Old) Images, The Esoteric Meets The Eclectic In A Range Of Not So Calm, Often Cool Collections|first=Julia |last=Miller|date=1 July 1994}}{{cite web|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9502204634/archive-films-represent-prelinger-collectio|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208200207/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9502204634/archive-films-represent-prelinger-collectio|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-12-08|title=Archive Films to represent Prelinger collection}}

In 1997, he sold his company, Archive Holdings, Inc, which by then had grown to 120 employees in the New York office, to The Image Bank, then a division of Eastman Kodak, and continued to run the company until 1999, also serving on The Image Bank's executive committee.{{cite web|url=http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/1837.html|title=Getty Images Trumps Gates' Corbis With Acquisition|website=E-Commerce Times|first=Rob |last=Conlin|date=November 24, 1999}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Image+Bank+acquires+Archive+Films%2FArchive+Photos.-a019468029|title=The Image Bank acquires Archive Films/Archive Photos.}}{{Cite web|date=2012-02-15|title=It's a Small World: Global Networking Shapes the Stock Footage Business|url=https://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/news/its-small-world-global-networking-shapes-stock-footage-business-373066|access-date=2021-01-04|website=Creative Planet Network|language=en-US}}

In 2007, Montgomery formed Archive Farms Inc, to manage the archival film and photo collections he had acquired or assembled since selling to The Image Bank, most notably, The Travel Film Archive, which owns the collections of several important travelogue film makers including Burton Holmes,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mh5rYfZ9WqUC&dq=patrick+montgomery+archivist&pg=PA493|title=Learning with the Lights Off|isbn=9780195383836|last1=Orgeron|first1=Devin|last2=Orgeron|first2=Marsha|last3=Streible|first3=Dan|date=6 January 2012}} Andre de la Varre, and James Fitzpatrick, and The Bert Morgan Archive, which he acquired from the heirs of high society photographer Bert Morgan in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://easthamptonstar.com/Arts/2014506/Lens-Aimed-Southampton-High-Society|title=A Lens Aimed at Southampton High Society}}{{cite web|url=http://shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com/2014/05/19/a-past-preserved-on-coecles-harbor/|title=A past preserved on Coecles Harbor|first=Ambrose |last=Clancy|website=Shelter Island Reporter|date=May 19, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/nyregion/icons-at-leisure-in-long-ago-summers.html|title=Icons at Leisure in Long-Ago Summers|date=18 May 2014|work=The New York Times|first=Aileen |last=Jacobson}} The company also represents The Caribbean Photo Archive and The History of Photography Archive, two private collections of 19th century photography assembled by Montgomery over a ten-year period.{{cite web|url=http://www.historymiami.org/museum/exhibitions/details/awakening-jamaica|title=Exhibitions · HistoryMiami|work=HistoryMiami}}{{cite web|url=http://caribjournal.com/2015/07/08/what-did-jamaica-look-like-in-1891|title=What Did Jamaica Look Like in 1891?|date=8 July 2015|work=Caribbean Journal|first=Dana |last=Niland}}

Working from these collections, Montgomery has curated several museum exhibitions including Southampton Blue Book, 1930 to 1960: Photographs by Bert Morgan (2014) at the Southampton Historical Museum, Awakening Jamaica, Photographs by Valentine and Sons, 1891 (2015) at HistoryMiami, Palm Beach Society Photography of Bert Morgan (2016) at The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, Historic Nassau (2016) at the Spady Cultural History Museum in Delray Beach, Florida, and Young Jackie on the South Fork at the East Hampton Historical Society (2017).{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/new-york/easthampton/young-jackie-south-fork-debuts-week|title='Young Jackie' on the South Fork Debuts This Week|first=Lisa |last=Finn|website=Patch|date=August 2, 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://sagharborexpress.com/young-jackie-south-fork-clinton-academy/?wallit_nosession=1|title="Young Jackie on the South Fork" at Clinton Academy}}{{cite web|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/g10376406/young-jackie-on-the-south-fork-book/|title=New Exhibit Offers A Glimpse Into Jackie Kennedy's Childhood|website=Harper's Bazaar|first=Cara|last=Zimmerman|date=July 28, 2017}}

From 2001 to 2019, Montgomery served as a member of the Board of Trustees of The George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, NY. He was named Vice Chairman of the Board in 2004 and has served as chairman of both the Photography Acquisition Committee and the Conservation Committee.{{cite web|url=https://www.eastman.org/sites/default/files/GeorgeEastmanHouse_AR2012_0.pdf |title=2012 George Eastman House Exhibitions }} He was also on the Board of Trustees of The Film Forum in New York City from 2008 until 2013, and served on the advisory board of Witness from 2001 to 2006.{{cite web|url=https://witness.org/portfolio_page/patrick-montgomery/|title= Patrick Montgomery |work=WITNESS|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105025101/https://witness.org/portfolio_page/patrick-montgomery/|archive-date=2016-01-05}} He has been a member of The Grolier Club since 2017.

In 2019, he sold the original photographs from The Caribbean Photo Archive to the Art Gallery of Ontario In Toronto and it is now known as The Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ago-caribbean-photography-exhibit-1.5161645|title=AGO acquires large collection of historical Caribbean photographs|first=Tashauna |last=Reid|author2=Jackson Weaver|website=CBC|date=June 6, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/news/a-preview-of-the-agos-groundbreaking-new-caribbean-photo-collection/|title=A Preview of the AGO's Groundbreaking New Caribbean Photo Collection|first= Leah |last=Sandals|website=CanadianArt|date= June 26, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2020/07/26/overwhelming-emotion-shows-just-how-big-a-deal-this-photo-collection-is-to-black-caribbean-lives-in-toronto.html|title='Overwhelming emotion' shows just how big a deal this photo collection is to Black Caribbean lives in Toronto|first=Michèle Pearson |last=Clarke|newspaper=Toronto Star|date= July 26, 2020}} Fragments of Epic Memory, the first exhibition at the AGO based on The Montgomery Collection, which opened on September 1, 2021, was named by Hyperallergic as one of the Best of 2021: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Around the World.{{cite web|url = https://ago.ca/exhibitions/fragments-epic-memory|title = Fragments of Epic Memory|website=AGO|publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario}}{{cite web|url = https://hyperallergic.com/697772/the-best-of-2021-our-top-10-exhibitions-around-the-world/|title = The Best of 2021, Our Top 10 Exhibitions Around the World|website=Hyperallergic|date=December 9, 2021}}

• George Melies: Cinema Magician (1978)
• The Man You Loved To Hate (1979)
• John Schelsinger Directs the Tales of Hoffmann (1980)
• The Compleat Beatles (1982)
• Rock and Roll: The Early Days (1984)
• British Rock: The First Wave (1985)
• We’ll Be Right Back (1987)
• Creepy Classics (1989)

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• [http://www.gettyimages.com/collections/archive-films Archive Films, Collection]
• [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/09/business/selling-history-reel-by-reel-to-today-s-media.html 1995 article on Archive Films] on NYTimes.com
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