Website review: Preserving Old Movies, At 40 Degree...
sheaman42 discovered this in Filmmaking
•2 reviews since May 11, 2008
filmmaking, preservation
•cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/10/entertainment/...
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sheaman42 discovered 3 months ago- From the page: "(AP) While Scarlett O'Hara stayed cool at home, Dorothy Gale took a year out to go skipping down a digital yellow brick road in a Hollywood film lab. The recently-reunited Technicolor duo could well be spending much of the rest of the millennium killing time with Lassie, Annie Oakley, Tarzan and a canned colony of heroes and villains from the silent-film era. Thousands of pre-1951 movies captured on volatile nitrate film are kept in frigid, low-humidity vaults in a modest cinderblock building owned by the George Eastman House Museum on the piney outskirts of Rochester. Cold storage saves them from rotting away within a lifetime or, worse yet, burning up. In most cases, these are original camera negatives from the first half-century of motion pictures, classics such as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind," the silent era's top-grossing "Big Parade," Lon Chaney in "The Phantom of the Opera" and Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 version of "The Ten Commandments." "
- sallyjacobs rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "The magical way in which a chilly, dry setting retards shrinking, fading or "nitric melt" inevitably raises concern about the long-term survival of other vulnerable pieces of the world's film heritage, from safety-based acetate stock adopted in the 1950s to television recordings to flimsy digital-video cassettes." For this Peak Oil Cassandra (who also happens to be an archivist) it raises another Really. Big. Question: How long will archival institutions be able to afford that kind of energy usage? And don't say digital will save us. The average Data Center consumes as much energy as 25,000 households.
