Re: [AV Media Matters] Preservation query

[amsden@btinternet.com]

sara van beck wrote:

>Hi all -

>I was asked by an acquaintance to look into his idea on a way to
>preserve oral history interviews taped on VHS. With the advance of
>being able to freeze photographic images for long-term preservation,
>his question is:
>
>Is there a way to copy/transfer the VHS tape (image and audio) to film
>so the film can be frozen?
>I haven't had the time to do any research, and have always managed to
>let the query fall off my back burner, so....
>Any input that anyone has is gratefully appreciated.

There are a number of facilities in the UK that will transfer video
to film, so I would imagine that they will also exist in the
States.

I believe that Kodak recommend a temperature of below 0=B0C for
storage and that the life expectancy can then be in the order of
two thousand years. The o= nly problem with this idea, is who is
going to be responsible for maintaining= the deep freeze for that
length of time? -

Peter Amsden,
ASAT Productions
Argyll, Scotland