The Archive Keepers: Preserving and Restoring News Film

The people who fight decay: how old film is professionally restored (Insider, Adam Savage, CBS Sunday Morning), 'Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation', nitrate fires and rediscovered vaults, MoMA's film vault, BFI curators restoring Sherlock and The Great White Silence, and why the archives keep nitrate at all.

Playlist by @news_archive_docs

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. How Old Movies Are Professionally Restored | Movies Insider — Insider
2. How a 100-Year-Old Animated Film Is Restored! — Adam Savage’s Tested
3. Film restoration: Saving our cinema heritage — CBS Sunday Morning
4. Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation — Gravitas Docufilms
5. Nitrate Fires & Movie Vaults: Films LOST and FOUND — Analog Resurgence
6. How does MoMA preserve films? | Ep. 2 | FILM VAULT SUMMER CAMP — The Museum of Modern Art
7. Inside the Archive: restoring Conan Doyle's favourite screen Sherlock | BFI — BFI
8. Ask a curator: Restoring The Great White Silence — BFI
9. Nitrate Film Handling, 1940's - Film 6416 — HuntleyFilmArchives
10. Nitrate film why do we keep it? — Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision