>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 Light Cone Video, L'Abominable, FrameWorks list <[log in to unmask]>. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite