Motion Pictures as Government Archives
Motion pictures with sound recording, which can be said to represent second and third dimensions in recording history, are to be given full status with other Federal Archives. The movement was sponsored by the S. M. P. E. Committee on Preservation of Film in 1930, and one of the early advocates of including motion pictures in the archives of the nation was Mr. Will Hays. The preservation of film was one of the chief problems, and is now being worked out by the Bureau of Standards under the joint sponsorship of the National Archives and the Carnegie Foundation through an original research project under an Advisory Committee set up by the National Research Council. The Committee on Preservation of Film of the S. M. P. E. is assisting in the work. The service to be rendered by such a great national film library has many possibilities.
- Print ISSN
- 0097-5834
- Published
- 1936-06
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J08661