Kodak introduces new motion picture film

[ChrisLivsey]

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ozymandias.

I met a Traveler from an antique land,
Who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings."
Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

 

[Jamie123]

With the movie industry turning to digital for both capture and distribution it is understandable that Kodak wants to put an emphasis on film as an archival storage medium.

I don't know if this necessarily is a good thing, though. They know that motion picture film is a shrinking market so they try to salvage what seems salvageable. I highly doubt that the sale of recording film even remotely makes up for the lack of film sales in the future.

In any case, we now know that the fate of photographic Kodak film (for stills) is no longer linked to that of motion picture film so maybe that's a good thing.

 

[ChrisLivsey]

Any chance of a transfer to 8" disk?

SSSD or DSSD or DSDD ?

 

[gns]

Everyone needs to watch Side By Side, hosted by Keanu Reeves. Very interesting about film vs. digital in Hollywood, and very well-balanced.

Someone started a thread about this movie, but it didn't go far. That surprises me, since it is exactly the topic of many mile long threads here over several years. Was it James Cameron who pointed out that "They" will figure out long term digital storage/retrieval? And that there will be much bigger problems than the loss of some old movies and photos if they don't.

Gary

 

[Jamie123]

Someone started a thread about this movie, but it didn't go far. That surprises me, since it is exactly the topic of many mile long threads here over several years. Was it James Cameron who pointed out that "They" will figure out long term digital storage/retrieval? And that there will be much bigger problems than the loss of some old movies and photos if they don't.

Gary

Yes, I started that thread but I actually forgot to post in it after I watched the movie 🙂

I, too, was surprised by the lack of interest as the topic surely resonates with a lot of people here.
Of course Cameron is right in saying that in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter if some movies, even good ones, are lost. But you can say that about most things in the world so it's not really a good argument. And the problem with his argument that 'they' will figure out a long term digital storage is that 'they' do not exist. If the creators of content don't care about finding a long term digital solution for their own work who will? The studios surely care about a movie only as long as it makes money for them.

 

[wblynch]

...The studios surely care about a movie only as long as it makes money for them.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner !

 

[rxmd]

I still have stuff on Iomega ZIP disks. It was my own fault for not transferring them but I didn't see it coming. Once I upgraded my computer and the OS I found a lot of wares were no longer compatible.

Get yourself an USB-SCSI adapter, an old SCSI ZIP drive, and copy the stuff over.

Get 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" drives if you still have data on those floppies and copy the stuff, or build/buy a dedicated old PC for this purpose.

No single medium will keep your data forever. The key to preserving digital data is to copy early, copy often.

 

[Chuck Albertson]

I have the same article, it's on a 5 1⁄4-inch floppy.

I have it, too, on a Mag card.

 

[rxmd]

I have it, too, on a Mag card.

s/Mag/punch/