HOW THIS PLEDGE DRIVE WORKS

TIERED STRUCTURE

This funding page as set up is arranged in a tiered format so that the pledge drive does not have to meet any specific goal to end up being helpful or effective. If the drive is only partially successful funds can still be applied to project tiers covered by incoming contributions.

In other words, if the pledge drive brings in enough funds to cover four projects, we will be able to get all the work done on those projects and guarantee they will be delivered. If it brings in enough to cover them all, we'll be able to create them all.

Other pledge drives for individual titles or new projects can still be made later but if this drive reaches its total the Squadron should be able to complete a whole year’s worth of work or more on the selected serials identified here, which are on the “in production” schedule.


PROJECT ALTERNATES

Some projects listed may not be possible to complete, or complete as scheduled, due to unreported damage in any particular print, missing content, or film collectors or archives which block use of any content they may have and do not wish to share with anyone. If that kind of thing happens with any project listed here, we will simply move on to the next one in line or another possible serial project that we have access to a good print of and apply funds to it instead.

As things are set up, whatever amount of funding that comes in determines what projects will be made to happen.


THE MOTION PICTURE SERIAL RESTORATION FUND

If more than $30,000 is raised (and less than $45,000), funds will go to the AMPSA Motion Picture Serial Restoration Fund (a fund now being set up which will become a non-profit organization), and be applied toward acquisition, transfer, and possibly even broadcast and/or commercial distribution licenses for serial titles. The cost of setting up AMPSA as a non-profit will also be drawn from this pledge drive.

FUTURE PLEDGE DRIVES FOR FUTURE PROJECTS
Additional pledge drives for rare titles will then be posted by AMPSA for individual serials for which raw material carries high price tags, the cost of which is not completely covered by responses to this pledge drive.

A $2-3 million donation, by the way, applied to the AMPSA Motion Picture Serial Restoration Fund would very likely make all your serials-on-TV dreams come true and possibly make every serial title you might wish to view (previously available or not) at home accessible to you 24/. If you are in a position to be able to provide this kind of funding for movie serial restoration projects, please contact Eric Stedman to discuss things further!


THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING

Thank you for assisting the Squadron in “keeping up the good work,” as many have asked us to do over the years. It might be a little more expensive to do this year due to the sudden demands of upgraded or still-upgrading technology, but we have mad scientists (and some benevolent ones too) on staff here who can help us keep up with the new technology and do even better things than we have in the past. So please consider making a donation to help some of the rarest-of-the-rare lost serials not be lost to time but instead be restored, repaired and become viewable by all.

We hope you will help the Squadron continue to restore the rarest and most difficult to acquire and restore movie serials and make them available now to you not only on disk but also on your television set by participating in this pledge drive and making your contribution today.

If you have any questions about the pledge drive process or would like to have your name on a restoration as Producer, please write Eric Stedman at serialhq@aol.com.

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