America's film heritage preserved at the Library of Congress
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- From silent films and Hollywood classics through the Golden Age of television, the curators at the Library of Congress painstakingly maintain its archive of 1.4 million films and video recordings as a time capsule of America as told through moving images. Martha Teichner goes underground for a look at this a national treasure.
I'm so glad the United States has a mission to preserve these important parts of our heritage
Now, it’s a race against time to save these films from deteriorating.
Much credit goes to the generosity of David Packard for this facility!
Finally a place that is almost as diverse as the Victorville Film Archive in it's film selection. 4 bags of popcorn for coming so close to the VFA... however, I'm going to add another bag of popcorn to make it a total of 5 bags of popcorn simply because of the significant importance of film preservation. So, good job.
Support film preservation, at taxpayer expense, but Library of Congress needs to make this publicly available. As of date of this comment on CZcams not really publicly available on CZcams or any other public site that I know of.
They could really only do that to works that are now in the public domain, so probably films from the 1920s and earlier are all-clear. But the copyrights of works from the 1930s onward are still in effect, so they could only release that either with the copyright owner's permission, or once that copyright expires.
I want to know if this video is now in the archive.
It's the ultimate Time Capsule.
5:00 CZcams videos are already in digital format.
That is true, but consider if the CZcams servers all fried. Even the redundancy servers. Everything, gone. There was still be the most culturally important CZcams videos stored inside that vault.
Digital is not as permanent as people like to think.
Library of Congress would be considered an offsite backup of CZcams.
And theres still videos on youtube you can never find again... even on the waybackmachine site to go back to look. Its not ALL forever content.. Theres even movies and films from the 90-2010s I simply cannot find for the life of me online.. If it wasnt for someone posting it on youtube or on a "sketchy" site they'd prob be lost. Shoot even DvDs and VHS all that stuff is gonna go POOF eventually.
5:32 Damn she couldn’t even let him finish, he was going to get to it
Not just film preservation, but also the machines needed to play all that media to transfer it to lossless digital formats.
Hopefully our current administration won’t find out about this a defund it. Money well spent, but I sure some will think (working vacations) on the golf course are more important. Keep the arts alive.
Amazing work!
now this i don't mind spending our tax dollars on, better than the 3 million tax dollars spent on the Japanese peanut vs ours ! i think our peanut is just fine
5:29 his face. Hahah
it is worth the Taxpayer's money, along with taking care of Veterans!!!!
Is it just me or the interviewer seemed to be completely uninterested and puzzled as to why they were trying to preserve film heritage?
Saving old films has gotten a lot easier thanks to "Archangel." It's an automated digital fixer that was used on the restoration of World at War which had every headache imaginable.
great
Great
And that is only the Library Of Congress, but there is also the Smoking Room Of Congress with the best tobaccos in the world, think of Jamaica and Cuba. Then there is the Billiard Room of Congress with the finest pool tables and the largest collection of Beers in the World! Although, it seems that these locations are secret.
If you know about them, then it's not a secret.
wait do they archive every youtube video?
wasnt there a time when copyright office made or required to receive a paper flip version of all films, then they destroyed millions of them. bet a copy of wizard of oz one of them
I'm here because of PRO-TEK
Terrible interviewer