our vanishing film heritage

trudat. and a book is more hard-wearing than a dvd/videotape and isn't prey to technological obsolescence. but nonetheless thousands if not millions of them are destroyed every year. and there are still pretty rare ones, i'd have thought, if we're talking about the whole past century.

this is a good opportunity for academic institutions to step in

Maybe that town in Italy that bought Kim's Video collection will just expand and buy/preserve everything else.

**keeps fingers crossed**

And to think ... all those movies Tarantino burned at the end of Inglourious Basterds.

this is a good opportunity for academic institutions to step in

― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao), Friday, January 8, 2010 3:00 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

the archives themselves seem pretty sound, so far as i can tell. question is ease of access, etc. in the UK it's improving. but using the book comparison, there really very few libraries (four or five iirc) here that have literally EVERYTHING. (and even they don't always!)

lots of movie sharing sites are preserving/circulating otherwise unavailable movies - sometimes, as in the case of Rivette's Out One, site members are even, collectively, writing new subtitles for them!

Yeah in the wake of several ace torrent sites, a lot of what Kehr's article seemed a bit passé to me (although he did mention said sites).

only the cool people know about them

don't make me learn to torrent.