| Recent Kodak stocks do hold up much better, as do technocolor prints‎. In the 70's, 80's and 90's, especially during the explosion of the cineplex, cheaper prints were made to only last for the 6-8 weeks of a run. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.
Dear Frameworkers, Thanks for all the interesting responses to this issue. There is such a wealth of knowledge here! Glad to know there are some digital restoration possibilities, though sounds like something that should be done sooner before further shifts happen. Aii, the tension between preserving the old and making the new. I wonder how Kodak color prints and negatives of today will behave? Were they improved after the 70's? Once converted into digital, we're into the ever-shifting technology stream that still seems to have no practical archival process that won't require constant updating. I think of the B/W paper prints in the Library of Congress that are still preserving films of the early 1900s. Illuminated manuscripts on vellum have held up pretty well for 600 years, if limited to beautiful blue, red, and gold. I wonder if the Technicolor process with three B/W separation negatives still exists in China, where Technicolor sold it? Or should we think of movies as an essentially ephemeral art, like dance, with a life span similar to our own? Cheers, Robert Withers On Dec 19, 2015, at 7:00 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote:
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