The Preservation of the Fox Newsreel Library by Digital Means: A Progress Report

The bulk of the Fox Movietone Newsreel Library is camera original 35mm motion picture film on a cellulose nitrate base. — Not only is the film difficult to handle and hard to access but it is inexorably decomposing. — As a practical matter optical or contact printing of 60 million feet of film, given its shrunken condition, is economically unthinkable. — Electronic storage alternatives were investigated which would at once capture as much image information as practical while simultaneously manufacturing NTSC copies. — Not only was the advent of Advanced Television considered, but also the ability to recreate credible 35mm motion picture film from the electronic storage for theatrical use. — To that end Fox is building two purpose built high resolution monochrome telecines.

Published

1993-02

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00674

ISBN

978-1-61482-920-1