Re: [AV Media Matters] Preservation query

[allan.goodrich@kennedy.nara.gov]

Many, many generations of HVAC technicians (talk about job security)!
Allan Goodrich

<amsden@btinternet.com> 03/08/00 09:51AM
>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 deg. C for
>storage and that the life expectancy can then be in the order of two
>thousand years. The  only 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