Film Preservation and Restoration: Triage Motion Picture Services Links

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The Association of Moving Image Archivists site is a great resource. Please note that there is an AMIA List-Serve for everyone interested in preservation and restoration.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive is a good source of information.

Also, the UCLA Preservation and Restoration Section provides a quick history and a few frames from some classic films.

The Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page provides many excellent resources, including:

an excellent paper on Motion Picture Conservation at The Library of Congress,
a great search engine for LOC's archives,
and the LOC's Motion Picture and Television Reading Room.

For additional government information on preservation and restoration, try the
- National Film Preservation Board Web Site and the
- National Film Preservation Foundation.

The Silents Majority. A great site for the silent and classic film enthusiast.
Oxberry LCC was the manufacturer of the best optical printers in the world, and continues to offer repair, service and special needs for all of their past printers and animation equipment. Their current film scanners employ their famous cameras and great technology, as they are a proven entity in the world of film, not a new player attempting to capitalize on the digital marketplace.
Bill Mead's Cinema Technology Page provides some excellent references, especially on motion picture sound engineering technology.
The Internet Movie Database. A good general resource for motion picture information on the internet.
For video restoration, I've heard many good things about Vidipax, especially about their ability to deal with odd formats.
The International Federation of Film Archives at FIAF
ARCHIMEDIA is the European Training Network for the Promotion of Cinema Heritage : A programme of two training courses for students and professionals organized by universities and film archives in collaboration with high-technology laboratories.
AMPAS, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
SMPTE, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers provides sources for all aspects of image technology.
ACVL, the Association of Cinema and Video Laboratories.
TRiMorphica Main Page
Exposure - A Beginner's Guide to Photography is great site for explaining exposure and other photographic terms. Exposure's
- Sim-Cam is a great tool for understanding f-stop and exposure times.
The Eastman Kodak Company
Sony Pictures Entertainment

For other information, browse these two newsgroups:
alt.movies.silent
rec.arts.movies.tech

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