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Museum visits, stories worth telling, old-timers who should be on the record — and enquiries for documentaries, speaking and licensing.

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Frank reads them all.

Send the largest version you have — a phone photograph of an old print is fine. Originals stay yours; anything that becomes part of the record is credited to you. Too big to send? Say so and Frank will write back with a way.

Licensing and media: please include your production company and intended use.

Frank Schlichting standing on a snow-covered fallen log under a blue winter sky, rope coils and rigging slung from his harness.
Grand Forks, British Columbia

Frank Schlichting

A decade underground and more than 400 films — and still the fastest way to reach him is to write.

Worked a mine? Knew someone who did? A name, a story, a photograph — that is the mail he opens first. What checks out becomes part of the record, credited to you.
Work with Frank
Frank Schlichting behind a cinema camera on set in the museum, an ore-car wheel and the collection behind him.
Documentaries & film rights

A decade of footage from workings nobody can enter again — and the man who filmed it. Co-productions, appearances, film rights.

Speaking & events

Talks and Q&As on the vanishing underground — for museums, festivals, historical societies and industry events.

Footage & media licensing

Broadcast, documentary and editorial licensing from 400+ films. Include your production company and intended use.

Letters from a Retired Madman
Come along. One photograph. One story. Once a month.

That’s the whole deal. Frank picks one photograph out of the archive, tells you the story of the day it was taken, and signs off until next month. A short P.S. points to whatever’s new — films, mine pages, the museum — and that’s it.

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