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Re: HIGH DEFINITION...LOOKS GREAT..ON SUSAN FILMS.

Sounds terrific. It is one of the great tragedies of old movies that the glorious colour in which they were initially shot does fade with time needing restoration.

We have already lost a huge amount of movies since the Silents - initially because they were shot on nitrate film which is highly flammable. I recall reading that in 1937, a storage vault fire at Fox Studios destroyed utterly the entire Fox collection of pre 1935 negatives.

But even when we get to the era about 1950 when safety film was used and we rarely ever lost much permanently anymore, there is still the problem of fading and dullness that comes from poor storage etc.
HD transmission does seem to tackle that well.

Re: HIGH DEFINITION...LOOKS GREAT..ON SUSAN FILMS.

That's really terrific about the high def.

My daughter, Kelly,is currently working toward her master's degree at NYU and her major is film archiving and restoration. I'm so proud that she is learning about this and will be among those who will be helping to preserve film history. We also "persuaded" her to take a bunch of our old family films that were beginning to deteoriate and she is working on them in in her spare time...the wonders of technology!