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Hollywood still archives productions on film. Specifically, color separated film: three rolls of B/W PET-base film, one for each of red, green and blue. These a
by formerly_proven 6y ago
Hollywood still archives productions on film. Specifically, color separated film: three rolls of B/W PET-base film, one for each of red, green and blue. These are expected to last 100+ years, are trivial to read and have color stability beyond any kind of color film (because the color information is encoded in black and white films instead of pigments) and offer more than sufficient resolution (they aren't prints, but made using laser film recorders). This sounds expensive but is apparently ~one order of magnitude cheaper long term than digital "archival".
If companies with Hollywood funding consider digital archival too expensive and too fragile... should really tell you something.
Other long-term archives are not digital, either. Germany's Barbarastollen houses thousands of stainless steel barrels with black and white microfilms - about a billion of them.
- ctz 6y agoYou think they would've learned their lesson? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire
- bo0tzz 6y agoJust because you're archiving on physical media, does not prevent you from keeping multiple copies.
- jasode 6y ago>Hollywood still archives productions on film. [...] If companies with Hollywood funding consider digital archival too expensive and too fragile. I'm ignorant of the movie industry. Are you also saying that movies that were 100% digital capture (e.g. RED CINEMA digital cameras) are also "printed" to film stock to be archived long term?
- dsego 6y agoFrom this excerpt about project Silica, it would seem that they are currently using hard drives and data tapes for digital. https://youtu.be/fzWbnXHEydU?t=124 https://youtu.be/fzWbnXHEydU?t=124