[game_preservation] Silent Films Being Lost

[Andrew Armstrong]

Books; good point, perhaps better preserved because of libraries though! 

:) (IE; government funded institutions).


Longevity - good point on it being underground, although thankfully 
there are some people working more on the transfer from any analogue 
media to digital, where it becomes at least something that is easily 
copied for archival purposes, even if no where yet has a large 
accessible digital repository nor system of emulation that can run all 
the older games. :)

Andrew

On 22/07/2010 14:36, Devin Monnens wrote:

> Truly, a sobering find. I think this just goes to underscore that 

> commercial businesses are throwaway businesses. The only things that 

> will survive for long periods are those that the public has deemed 

> important enough to watch again today, or which say film studies 

> community is interested in discussing. Essentially, if there is a 

> market for it, the film will return. I don't think Janus is in the 

> business for the good of mankind but to make bank. You need a 

> government organization to do that.

>

> I'm a bit curious now as to the preservation percentage of books from 

> the same time period.

>

> Games might have a better shot at at least longevity (not the same as 

> preservation) due to the underground community - it is much easier to 

> distribute something that everyone can buy than it is something that 

> is displayed to the public through private businesses.

>

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Andrew Armstrong 

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>     While we're perhaps not at this stage of loss yet, it's saddening

>     to see other media having large issues preserving old silent films:

>

>     http://filmabinitio.blogspot.com/2010/07/news-review-80-of-european-silent-films.html

>

>     I hope we don't get this way with tapes we're still keeping and

>     haven't digitally preserved yet, perhaps we're in a better

>     position given we don't usually have as much analogue media to

>     preserve as film does so it is easier. The issue perhaps is more

>     how we replay the data once we digitally preserve it - emulation

>     and so forth.

>

>     Andrew

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