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The article claims the preservation wave started in the 1960s. That being said, home video certainly made preservation a lot easier, if only because rather tha
by bobthepanda 4y ago
The article claims the preservation wave started in the 1960s.
That being said, home video certainly made preservation a lot easier, if only because rather than a select few copies being made for movie theaters you now were making possibly millions for home consumers. That, and extremely flammable/degradable media was not suitable for home use.
- PaulHoule 4y agoThere were two waves. Early on films were make on explosive celluloid base that was by no means durable, those were replaced by ‘safety film’ on acetate bases. Around the 1980s there was a perceived crisis about the fading of color film, Martin Scorsese was one of the leaders in that movement. People had all kinds of ideas about how to preserve color film but it was eventually realized you could keep in the freezer for hundreds of years without fading.