Tucked behind high walls and wroughtirongates, his iconic Old Hollywood estate was designed in 1927 and once belonged to Harry Cohn, the legendary founder of Columbia Pictures.
Stepping through the ornate wrought-iron gates onto on the peaceful grounds of the beautiful 17th-century Kilruddery House in Bray, County Wicklow, still home to the Earl of Meath, it seems apt that this small four-day event is there to celebrate "lost, overlooked and forgotten films".
They come at the invitation of Columbia University, which hosted the most recent get-together on Friday in a concrete building near the iconic black wrought-iron Morningside Gates.