Links

We all know about the Watergate Tapes, but a whole bunch of Super 8 films turned up recently from the Nixon White House.  The films have been edited (editorialized?) into a documentary feature called Our Nixon.  Note the comparison of high and low quality film scans.

http://www.ournixon.com/#!the-home-movies/c19dm

 

The trailer for a great film exploring family history/myths through personal audio-visual archives:

http://www.palacefilms.com.au/storieswetell/

 

An overview of the Packard Campus facility of the Library of Congress:

http://www.loc.gov/avconservation/packard/

 

A glimpse of the cutting edge, high volume operations of the Library of Congress:

http://digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/videos/packard-campus.html

 

Talk by James Snyder of the Library of Congress about Moving Image Archiving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPBXSvjyR0U

 

A good article on the telecine optical imaging process used in transferring film to video:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine

A directory of film labs that still process film:
http://motion.kodak.com/motion/Support/Laboratories_Directory/index.htm

A great little “app” to calculate the variables of film length, running time, frame rates, and formats: