There's a lot of dismissive posts in this thread, and I think some people are missing an issue here. When documenting the history of anything, it's rarely a ba

There's a lot of dismissive posts in this thread, and I think some people are missing an issue here. When documenting the history of anything, it's rarely a bad thing to have a lot of data. Here, the preservation of these films is a documentation of history. When we talk about the art form of film, we see the giants and then work backwards. How much has Spielberg, for example, benefitted from being able to watch Kurosawa? Who influenced Kurosawa? Who influenced the people who influenced Kurosawa? Yeah, it's a bit like counting turtles, but since when has adding granularity to our knowledge-base ever been a bad thing? If it turns out that Kurosawa didn't create a technique because someone else did it first, that doesn't matter, because he still did something that synthesized it into something special. Even the giants stood on shoulders.