One week before we opened, and that was December 1 1970, Martinson dies, and in '72 Jerome Hill dies. So, we lost, within our first two years, the two biggest supporters and after Jerome died, the family of... that controlled the monies, Jerome's monies, they decided that they should cut off the funds, slowly faze us out because this was, Anthology Film Archives project was just some kind of whim of Jerome Hill, and it was not an essential kind of project that the foundation could support and they cut us off. So, we could not continue with the Essential Cinema, we could not, the idea of Essential Cinema Repertory Collection what that we would continue our meetings and as time and years went we would add new titles as we explore different areas. So, Essential Cinema Collection became an aborted kind of undertaking, very, very, I think, ambitious project that could have really become very, very, very important as time went on, ended right there in 1973.

It achieved though one, I think, it achieved something that... universities and colleges across the country wanted to show two or three programmes, we could direct them to our Essential Cinema Collection because one thing that we had covered quite well really is the avant-garde sort of film area. We did not cover the Hollywood, international cinemas, avant-gardes of other countries, but we covered quite well the American avant-garde film as it was at that time. We did not exactly complete, but I think we did at least 90% of the job. So that helped to very much to establish the avant-garde American, avant-garde film, avant-garde film in the academia. That sometimes is thrown, you know against us that, but I think it's wrong that criticism has little, I think, value. I think it, it achieved something that we did not really intend. So that was... then we had since our funds were cut off and we could not stay at the Public Theater, Shakespeare Theatre, that is 425 Lafayette because it, we had to pay yearly rental which was pretty high, and I had already purchased 80 Wooster which was totally like very cheap and practically free. We moved in 1974 to 80 Wooster.