NY’s Eastman House museum gets originals of ‘Howards End,’ other Merchant Ivory films

NY museum gets originals of Merchant Ivory films

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The original negatives of the Academy Award-winning movies “A Room with a View” and “Howards End” have found a home at a New York film and photography museum.

The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film said Wednesday that Merchant Ivory Productions has turned over a collection of original reels and 35mm archive prints for safekeeping.

The 40-plus titles include Oscar nominees “The Bostonians” and “The Remains of the Day,” which starred Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

Eastman House is a landmark Colonial Revival mansion in Rochester that was home to film and photo pioneer George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Co. It’s one of the nation’s four major motion picture archives, with more than 30,000 titles. It holds the collections of filmmakers Cecil B. DeMille, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese.