The Fox Movietone News Preservation Project: An Introduction

This article introduces a series on the Fox Movietone News Preservation Project. At the time it was decided to search for a practical means of preserving this important collection, no hardware or system existed to accomplish such a job successfully. As a practical matter, this task had not been undertaken, using traditional means, because of the huge cost and size of the project. Over 40 million feet of 35mm film was involved in the American collection alone, and many of the images were supported by a cellulose nitrate base. Deterioration of this part of the collection had already begun when the project was started in 1993. A brief history of the company is given, as well as a discussion of the technologies used in the difficult task of conserving six decades of newsreels.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1996-09

Content type

Information

DOI

10.5594/J04606