The Preservation of the Fox Newsreel Library by Digital Means: A Progress Report

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1993, No. 23, pp. 74–79
Abstract: The bulk of the Fox Movietone Newsreel Library is camera original 35mm motion picture film on a cellulose nitrate base. Not only is the film difficult to handle and hard to access but it is inexorably decomposing. As a practical matter optical or contact printing of 60 million feet of film, given its shrunken condition, is economically unthinkable. Electronic storage alternatives were investigated which would at once capture as much image information as practical while simultaneously manufacturing NTSC copies. Not only was the advent of Advanced Television considered, but also the ability to recreate credible 35mm motion picture film from the electronic storage for theatrical use. To that end Fox is building two purpose built high resolution monochrome telecines.
Publication Date: 1993-02-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00674
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00674
Author(s): Andrew G. SetosFox Inc.
R. Evans WetmoreBeverly Hills, California
Copyright: © 1993 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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