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Steve Leggett, program coordinator of the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress (LC), laughs as he retells this Hollywood urban legend. Nevertheless the story contains truth. Scores of films were destroyed during cinema’s early years by studios that viewed silents as obsolete. These silent classics were not seen as works of art … Continue reading Saving Our Celluloid Past →
Guidelines developed by the Federal Agencies Digital Still Image and Audio-Visual Working Groups A collaborative effort by federal agencies to articulate common sustainable practices and guidelines for digitized and born digital historical, archival and cultural content.
Pretty much all the things that could go wrong did.
Analog video formats, such as VHS, suffer from a few inherent quality-reducing errors. The more money you dump into this hobby, the better quality results
the Frequently Asked Questions... How do I get the best quality video recordings? Is there anything special I need to do to capture old video tapes? What
The AVCC Cataloging Toolkit is a set of guidelines and forms to help organizations catalog their audio, video, and film collections quickly and efficiently with the goal of creating a minimal datas…
Built in a former bomb shelter, the Library of Congress' National Audio-Visual Conservation Center stores 1.4M films, TV and video recordings that tell America's story
When it comes to preserving movies, the digital revolution may turn out to be a catastrophe.
Preservation of born-digital video is one of the more challenging types when it comes to digital files. As we noted in August, the Archives worked with Smithsonian Channel programs on DVD this summer. This project helped us develop workflows we are now adopting with some born-digital video. Video on authored DVD is complicated. If you have ever viewed the files on a computer, usually you will see an AUDIO_TS folder and a VIDEO_TS folder. The VIDEO_TS folder contains VOB, IFO, and BUP files and the AUDIO_TS folder is empty.
The Smithsonian Channel produces award-winning television programming that engages viewers much in the same way as the Smithsonian's museums and galleries do throughout the United States with their visitors. Just as the Smithsonian is working to digitize its collections for greater access and preservation, the Smithsonian Channel and the Smithsonian Institution Archives are also undertaking various efforts to ensure the digital preservation of these television programs. The reformatting workflow for this project has been dynamic, and it should be.
The two FADGI Working Groups are exploring file formats for still images and video. The explorations are using similar, matrix-based tools to make comparisons relevant to preservation planning.
After companies shut down and collectors lose interest, the Library of Congress is supposed to keep our cultural history intact. But digital media has turned our understanding of preservation on...
What it says on the tin: software tools for automated detection of common video digitization problems before they become preservation problems.
If you’ve been to the movies in the past decade, chances are you haven’t seen a film. Celluloid, the industry’s medium of choice for more than a century, has all but disappeared from American cinemas, with 95 percent of...