James Layton

James Layton is a historian and archivist specializing in the history of motion picture technology, in particular the development of color and widescreen in the 1920s and 1930s. Since April 2015 he has been Manager of the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center at The Museum of Modern Art. Prior to this, at George Eastman House, Layton curated the exhibitions "Bigger Than Life: CinemaScope at 60" in 2013 and "In Glorious Technicolor" in 2015. He is co-author of the poster "Knowing and Protecting Motion Picture Film" (Image Permanence Institute, 2009) and the books "The Dawn of Technicolor, 1915-1935" (George Eastman House, 2015) and "King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman's Technicolor Revue" (Media History Press, 2016).