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Our best answer might be film. Some of it has already survived 80 years. (Micro)film is supposed to last something like 500 years, and it's what Github picked
by alnwlsn 1y ago
Our best answer might be film. Some of it has already survived 80 years. (Micro)film is supposed to last something like 500 years, and it's what Github picked for their Arctic Code Vault. I was curious one time so I looked into it, but it seems like most effort is on converting microfilm to digital, not the other way around.
Anecdotally, the stuff my grandpa filmed on Super-8 is still in nearly perfect condition 65 years later. But most of his 16mm stuff from just a few years earlier than that has vinegar syndrome, so it's not "just film it and you're good"
- at-fates-hands 1y agoBack in 2015, Wired did an article about the Nuclear Bunker that holds some of Hollywood's oldest films and TV Shows: If the film is rare, highly flammable, and was made before 1951, there's a good chance it'll end up on George Willeman's desk. Or more specifically, in one of his vaults. As the Nitrate Film Vault Manager at The Library of Congress' Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, Willeman presides over more than 160,000 reels of combustible cinematic treasure, from the original camera negatives of 1903's The Great Train Robbery to the early holdings of big studios like Columbia, Warner Bros, and Universal. And more barrels keep showing up every week. https://www.wired.com/2015/07/film-preservation/ https://www.wired.com/2015/07/film-preservation/ Archive link: https://archive.ph/zluV8 https://archive.ph/zluV8
- schlauerfox 1y agoVinegar Syndrome is on film base/stocks that are cellulose acetate, they break down into acetic acid. Films after that period are estar base which is polyethylene terephthalate and very stable for archival. In fact if it jams a film projector it more likely wrecks the projector than breaks, which is kinda bad.