Good News for Silent Film (and film in general)

[split...@yahoo.com]

Thought this group might want to know about a couple developments that
bode well for nitrate film.

1) UCLA Film & Television Archive is actively transporting its nitrate
holdings (85+ million feet of film) from the old Technicolor vaults in
Hollywood to brand new state-of-the art temp/RH controled vaults in
Santa Clarita (almost spitting distance from Wm. S. Hart's ranch and a
half dozen movie ranches). The entire move should be done by late
April.

2) The Library of Congress is doing likewise moving all their nitrate
from Dayton, OH to new vaults in Culpeper, VA. Their move should be
completed by April 4.

So by the end of April over 200 million feet of nitrate will be in
better storage conditions than any nitrate has EVER experienced!!!

Well, I just think it is all great news and wanted to share it with my
fellow Cine-goons.

Rob "dead tired from hefting film cans... but its a good tired" Stone

[sirmichaelcat]

It would very expensive to store this nitrate film

[lzcutter]

On Mar 24, 8:37 pm, split_r...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Thought this group might want to know about a couple developments that
> bode well for nitrate film.
>
> 1) UCLA Film & Television Archive is actively transporting its nitrate
> holdings (85+ million feet of film) from the old Technicolor vaults in
> Hollywood to brand new state-of-the art temp/RH controled vaults in
> Santa Clarita (almost spitting distance from Wm. S. Hart's ranch and a
> half dozen movie ranches). The entire move should be done by late
> April.
>

Rob,

About eight years ago (I think it was) when I was living in Valencia
(next door to Newhall), David Packard was talking about starting a
film archive in the Santa Clarita Valley. It went through many
machinations and I was wondering if he ended up funding the new vaults
that UCLA Film and TV is using up there?

He originally talked about having a theater and a working archive very
similar to what UCLA Film and Television has been doing for years and
years down here in Los Angeles.. Did he abandon the idea and
concentrate on his archive in northern California or is he working
with UCLA on a joint venture in Santa Clarita?

Thanks for the update by the way!

Lynn in Sherman Oaks
www.classiclasvegas.squarespace.com (blog)

[split...@yahoo.com]

The project that you heard about in the past was not a separate
archive but something that he was working on with UCLA. The new
vaults are the first step in moving the UCLA Film & Television Archive
to Santa Clarita. The construct of the new vaults was fully funded by
the Packard Humanities Institute.

Rob