[…] VHS releases, the film releases, and the DVD, and now the Blu-ray, you kind of have this very patchy history. But I guess that, with time, you know, archives try to do their best to, you know, recreate the original, and that’s just a… that’s a legacy of archival work in the past or, you know, just […]
[…]hey do have a good analogue preservation they leave it as a digital restoration. They also have a massive digital archiving system, that … if you can archive, that data might be a better archive raw medium than the film itself – and that’s a big if.00:12:40PF: OK. So, kind of going on from there, we[…]
[…]nk so!CR: That’s a shame! So, just thinking more broadly, what were the wider industry attitudes to film preservation at this time?AM: Well, the film archives weren’t, in general, independent organisations. There was Rank film archives in the UK, so it was very much the distributors who owned all th[…]
[…]and as BECTU replaced them that the history project was really going to be the only organisation. Maybe the union was unconcerned about its own archives at this stage and that really the history project in 1992, mm, it feels very responsible for what’s going on, and I just wondered if that’s n[…]
[…]on, it was around the time of Hard Day’s Night… BAThe Beatles, on that one, and I put my recording of this which I kept, I put that into the BBC archives in 1990… And that’s… And this is where they got a lot of the material from for the BBC compilation… the Beatles CD… They did Long[…]
[…]bsp; 36:50 What's happened to all the films? Are they either the BFI or no, Bobbi Riesel 36:57 they are in archive. Somebody in his film club is holding them, but I have everything transferred to tape, so I have a copy of everything Manny Yospa &n[…]
