>Why not just digitally scan the nitrate materials and save digitally?
 
"Preserving" a painting means restoring it to a condition in which it can be
hung, as the painting it always was, in a museum. To noone would it mean
digitally scanning the painting to be kept as "data" or seen on a computer
screen, nor would it mean making color photocopies or reproductions of the
painting to hang in museums in place of the original. Obviously.
 
Why do people not see film as an art form, like painting, with its specific
materials and exhibition spaces?
 
-Pip Chodorov, Paris
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