One of Randy's first jobs in Hollywood was as a staff researcher in the RKO Studio Archives. There he assisted the BBC in their 6-part studio history, entitled Hollywood; The Golden Years, and veteran director, Richard Wilson, with the Paramount Pictures/Les Films Balenciaga restoration of a "lost" Orson Welles feature, It's All True. Subsequently working as film sales librarian for both the Sherman Grinberg and Energy stock libraries, he produced his first documentary, 1999's critically acclaimed, Keepers of the Frame, in response to the film deterioration he had to deal with on a daily basis.