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- Robert Harris
Those who know me are aware of my predilection toward things archival and their preservation.
For the fifth time, The National Film Preservation Foundation, has gathered archival materials, and delivered them to us on DVD, thereby exhibiting the extraordinary work being performed by film archives.
Number Five is entitled simply, The West.
It gives a sampling of images from the beginning of the last century. Something, that with all of the power of digital technology now available to us in our present time, may just not survive to be viewed a hundred years hence. Although strangely, the images on these discs probably will.
While analogue image capture is something simply wrangled, digital images are not.
I've a feeling that those who captured precious images and sounds beginning in the late 1980s, and even worse, and current period, may not be lucky enough to have them available in another twenty years.
And this is one of the things, that sadly, makes the miracle of Treasures 5 even more intriguing.
The fact that we can look back at images taken well over a century ago, see how people dressed, lived, travelled and interacted in the old American West is something devoutly to be wished.
From the narrative film, to the documentary, and various bits and pieces of surviving film, Treasures 5 is an extraordinary window to the past.
Three DVDs and a book can be yours for $27 via Amazon. Your support by purchasing this (and earlier offerings) goes to support film preservation and restoration.
A great product at a bargain price that helps support saving the films that we all love.
RAH
For the fifth time, The National Film Preservation Foundation, has gathered archival materials, and delivered them to us on DVD, thereby exhibiting the extraordinary work being performed by film archives.
Number Five is entitled simply, The West.
It gives a sampling of images from the beginning of the last century. Something, that with all of the power of digital technology now available to us in our present time, may just not survive to be viewed a hundred years hence. Although strangely, the images on these discs probably will.
While analogue image capture is something simply wrangled, digital images are not.
I've a feeling that those who captured precious images and sounds beginning in the late 1980s, and even worse, and current period, may not be lucky enough to have them available in another twenty years.
And this is one of the things, that sadly, makes the miracle of Treasures 5 even more intriguing.
The fact that we can look back at images taken well over a century ago, see how people dressed, lived, travelled and interacted in the old American West is something devoutly to be wished.
From the narrative film, to the documentary, and various bits and pieces of surviving film, Treasures 5 is an extraordinary window to the past.
Three DVDs and a book can be yours for $27 via Amazon. Your support by purchasing this (and earlier offerings) goes to support film preservation and restoration.
A great product at a bargain price that helps support saving the films that we all love.
RAH
