Separate Cinema Archive acquired by Lucas Museum

CTL-E-0849 · Event · other · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

(2025-01) The Lucas Museum's acquisition of John Duke Kisch's 37,000-item Separate Cinema Archive (announced January 2025).

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-108; source research type(s): event. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (primary source)

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Cite as: CultureTechLens, “Separate Cinema Archive acquired by Lucas Museum (CTL-E-0849),” October 4, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0849/

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