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Preservation

Overview - Article, Statements and Interviews - Organisations - Laboratories - Archives

Overview

Introduction. What is "Preservation"? Technical Background. Film Preservation in Practice. Film Preservation 1993: A Study of the Current State of American Film Preservation Volume 1 (ReportJune 1993 Report of the Librarian of Congress).

Film Restoration and Processing. Generated by D. Suter (June/11/1997).

David Francis. Motion Picture Conservation at the Library of Congress.

Kenneth E. Harris and Susan E. Schur. A Brief History of Preservation and Conservation at the Library of Congress.

Preserving Documentary Heritage - IFLA/UNESCO SURVEY ON DIGITISATION AND PRESERVATION , (Published by IFLA Offices for UAP and International Lending, 1999).

Preservation Science Survey - An Overview of Recent Developments in Research on the Conservation of Selected Analog Library and Archival Materials by Henk J. Porck and René Teygeler, December 2000

 

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Article, Statements and Interviews

Unesco: "METROPOLIS"-Sicherungsstück Nr. 1: Negative of the restored and reconstructed version 2001

Film History, Preservation, Conservation And Resources Page

American Film Institut. Why Are Films And Videos Disappearing?

Robert A. Harris' Statement at the Film Preservation Study. Washington, D.C. Public Hearing, February 1993

Technical Constributions On Film Restoration And Preservation

M.Koerber. Reconstructing "Die Jagd nach dem Tod" , in "Journal of Film Preservation" n.49, Brussels, October 1994.

Jean-Pierre Verscheure. Une réalisation de Cinévolution. The Perspecta Sound System and the restoration of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by A. Hitchcock, in "Journal of Film Preservation" n.50, FIAF, Brussels, March 1995.

Klaus-Peter Schmitt. Cliks, Crakles, Thumps and Hiss. - Experience gathered whilst restoring old film soundtracks: "The Mistress of Atlantis" by G. W. Pabst (1932), in "Bulletin FIAF" n.47, FIAF, Brussels, October 1993.

 

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Organisations

European Commission on Preservation and Access. A European platform for discussion and co-operation of libraries, archives, scholars, and (inter)national agencies.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive. The world's largest University-held

collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming.

GAMMA Group - European Research Group of Film Archives and Laboratories

 

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Laboratories

AFCM - Cine Audio Lab - Paris (e-mail)

Cinarchives - Paris (e-mail)

Haghefilm - Amsterdam

Hendersons Film Laboratories - London

L'Immagine Ritrovata - Bologna

Soho Images - London

 

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Archives (Gamma group)

BFI Collection - London

Cinemateca Portuguesa - Lisbon

Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique - Brussels

Cineteca di Bologna - Bologna

CNC/Service des Archives du Film - Bois d`Arcy (e-mail)

Filmoteca Espanola - Madrid

 

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