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Pierce attended Phillips Academy Andover and briefly attended Yale University.
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Pierce Rafferty
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Some of his relatives include grandfather Marvin Pierce, president and later chairman of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women"s magazines Redbook and McCall"son And an early New England colonist named Thomas Pierce, also an ancestor to Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. Pierce and his former spouse, Margaret Crimmins, founded Petrified Films, Incorporated. in 1984, a pioneering independent stock film footage library that held the Elmer Dyer Film Library, Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures" feature film outtakes.
Pierce spent more than a decade organizing and cataloguing vaults all over New York City that were filled to the ceilings with cans of film.
Located in New York City"s The Meatpacking District, Petrified licensed archival footage to film, television, and commercial producers before being acquired by The Image Bank. The Image Bank was later acquired by Getty Images.
He is now Director of the Henry L. Ferguson Museum, Fishers Island, New New York Collaborated with Diane Keaton in the mid 1990"s, supplying vintage imagery for one of her photography books
Pierce"s company, Petrified Films Incorporated., contributed archival footage to the 1995 documentary film Trinity and Beyond, a film often compared to Pierce"s own documentary, The Atomic Cafe.
