Dear All,
 
Mike Vraney, the founder of SOMETHING WEIRD and a foremost cataloguer and curator of exploitation cinema, has died. His enormous efforts in unearthing forgotten films have contributed a great deal to our understanding of exploitation cinema. He was also an archaeologist of sorts of industrial and educational films. He and his passions will be missed. 
 
http://boingboing.net/2014/01/03/mike-vraney-founder-of-someth.html
 
http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/950460-129/mike-vraney-founder-of-something-weird
 
Shannon Blake Skelton

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