> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Businesses who have a vested interest in maintaining access to their >> products, (music, radio, television, video and movies, businesses) >> regularly and readily transfer property to new storage technology. Ted >> Turner is the Guru of the genre, by now having copied and restored the >> entire MGM movie library.
Not to give Mafud more ammo for his point of view, but even Turner's a bad bad man when it comes to this -- Important films that no longer completely exist in any resolution higher than that of a DVD because of storage negligence during Turner's watch: Goldfinger (apparently left in a hot warehouse -- print quality of the current DVD varies widely from sequence to sequence, since some was salvageable, but the rest comes from inferior duplicate negatives and release prints) West Side Story The long version of The Alamo (pristine 70mm print borrowed from a collector, the last believed to be in existence, transferred to video, then chopped into sections and put into a cleaning bath...and forgotten about until it turned into magenta goo) Warner, who have recently aquired most of the old MGM library from Turner, have apparently been having kittens over the shape that much of the original material is in. Just because we can archive this stuff doesn't mean we will, even when it is financially wise for us to do it. But, like Chris, I agree, the important part is that we CAN do it. -Aaron p.s. I don't imagine that Pixar will ever have the problem of the last known print of, say, Monsters Inc. being accidentally left in a hot warehouse -- they could just output another one. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
