PT Journal
AU Meneghelli, A
TI At Least We Have Saved Cinema? Reflections of a Film Archivist on Digital Cinema
SO Iluminace
PY 2015
BP 11
EP 23
VL 27
IS 2
WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201502-0002.php
DE film archive; film history; film collections; digital archives; archivists; film digitization; restored films; film preservation
SN 0862397X
AB The translated text by Italian film historian Andrea Meneghelli was written for the Iluminace magazine and expresses the author's reaction to the rapid expansion of digital cinema and the need to find a proper place in this emerging context. The author also highlights the positive effects of digitization on the availability of knowledge of the past. At the same time, he expresses doubts about the effectiveness and reliability of the digital record as a long-term preservation tool.
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