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Challenges of Film, Video, and New Media
Preservation
Howard Besser, DirectorMoving Image Archiving & Preservation Program
NYU’s Tisch School of the Artshttp://www.nyu.edu/ tisch/preservation
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Challenges of Film, Video, and New Media
Preservation• What are these strange things?• Why are they important?• Who has them?• What problems do they cause?• Who collects them (and how)?• New approaches to dealing with the problem
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What are these strange things?
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Old Film Formats
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Old Video Formats
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Metal sound recording DisksCasa Rui Barbosa
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YouTube
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CDs & DVDs
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Public TV Digital Storage
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Ethnographic Documentation
Bumba-Meu-Boi
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ELO: Uncle Buddy’s Funhouse
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ECI - Hole in Space (1980)
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ECI - Imagespace (1977?)
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Gates Project 1992 (3D ground)
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Why are they important?
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Images with Sound are critical to
understanding our cultural heritage• Both fiction & documentaries shape any time
period’s views of the past (Moses & 10 Commandments; Cleopatra; Caesar’s Rome; 1940s urban US; Hitler, Holocaust, WWII; Vietnam War, …)
• We are shaped by the cultural icons of our childhood (Leave it to Beaver, Lassie, James Bond, police shows, Mickey Mouse, Road Runner, …)
• We are also shaped by the advertisements, industrial, and educational films of our childhood (Maytag repairman, How to be a good homemaker, …)
• To understand our time period, people in the future will need to have access to the cultural artifacts of our time (imagine trying to understand 1950s and 1960s gender dynamics without pop cultural views of the family)
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Duck and CoverSponsor: U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1951
Downloaded 2002 from Prelinger Archive http://www.archive.org/
http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/talks/200712_educause/
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TV History
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TV History
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TV History
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Who has them?
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Many organizations have
film and video• Historic collections often have old films of a city, of buildings, of people at another time period
• Personal Paper collections have “home movies” of famous people, video documentation of experiments, anthropological films of other cultures
• Special Collections have oral/video histories, recordings of professional association meetings, video interviews. …
• Government collections have films documenting government-funded projects (bridges, roads, WPA), films and videos commissioned by government agencies (AIDS prevention, smoking prevention), recordings of legislative meetings, …
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Hampton Collection (3)
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Hampton Collection (interviews)
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What problems do they cause?-
• Decay, Fragility• Obsolescence of technology to play it
• Reformatting• Copyright
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Film Decay (LC Dayton)
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Film decay (Academy)
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1960s Films Faded to Pink (VidiPax)
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Other Deterioration-film
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Lost Tapes, Found SoundsExhibitionHarold Schellinex
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Lost Tapes, Found SoundsExhibitionHarold Schellinex
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Monitoring & Detecting Acid (NYU Library Internship)
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Even conventional Moving Image Carriers are highly unstable, and an enormous #
have already disappeared• 50% of all titles produced before 1950 have
vanished (approximate number as of late 1970s)• This reflects full-length features; survival rates
are much lower for other types (studio newsreels, shorts, docs, independent, …), and these “orphans” are particularly in peril
• Fewer than 20% of features from 1920s survive in complete form; survival rates of 1910s is <10% (& none of these are negatives)
-Film Preservation 1993: A Study of the Current State of American Film Preservation, Vol 1: Report, June
1993, Report of the Librarian of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/film/study.html)
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Obsolete or deteriorated Physical Carriers
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Obsolete Carriers & Info Techn
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Obsolete Carriers
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Obsolete Carrier viewing Technology?
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Old Video Formats
(www.vidipax.com)
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List of old Audio Formats
Format Description Years in UseWax Cylinder Records 2- or 4-minute formats, wax
or wax compound1888– 1929
Recordable Disc Records(Direct or Acetate Discs)
7”, 12”, or 16”, recorded at33 or 78 revolutions perminute (rpm). Generallyvinyl on a paper, glass ormetal base
1929– 1960s
Recording Wire Spooled wire, usually in 15-to 30- minute lengths, onedirection only
c. 1945– 1955
Open reel recording tape 1/4”– 2”, 3”– 10 1/2" reels,1 7/8– 30 inches per second(IPS) speeds
c. 1945– Present
Compact Cassette 1/8” tape in hard case, 1 7/8IPS format
1965– Present
Microcassette/Minicassette Very small 2-4 cm cassettetapes
1977– Present
Digital disk, MP3, and otherdigital recorders
Audio recorded directly indigital files to optical disksor internal hard drives
2000– Present
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Sometimes we have to reformat because of technology changes
• We don’t have video players to play tapes made 25 years ago
• We don’t have 8-inch floppy disk drives, syquest drives, zip drives
• We don’t have Windows 3 operating systems
• But this is something that conservators have always dealt with…
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Brittle Newspapers (Australia Battye Library)
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But Reformatting can have its downside
• Authenticity issues• User behaviors (newspaper, book, video game, …)
• Users mistaking the reformatted work for the original
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Critiques of Reformatting
Mainly User Behaviors
• Can’t view outside the library
• Only sequential access
• Viewing and studying is awkward
• …
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But if we don’t Reformat, we totally lose many of our
audiovisual works
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We sometimes have no control over the
technologies we use• Environmental--Government mandates to discontinue use of halon gas as fire extinguisher
• Economic--Companies in economic trouble will cease manufacturing technologies that aren’t hugely profitable– Ilford (2004 bankruptcy)– Agfa (2005 bankruptcy)– Kodak-
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Kodak stops making some films
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Kodak stops making some papers
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Basic Economics
• The conservation community is not large enough a purchaser to sustain many types of manufacturing and technological production
• Many of the things we use are based upon larger production runs for larger (and richer) communities
• Therefore, we need to be periodically monitoring the economic health of our suppliers, and be aware of long-term trends affecting their other customers
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Possible endless need for reformatting
implies• Possible loss with each generation
• Requires managed environment• Can lead to © violations-
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Preservation steps can raise seriousCopyright Issues
• Refreshing onto new physical strata can violate ©• Migrating raises “moral rights” issues• Emulation often requires reverse engineering of software• Underlying rights-
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Underlying Rights Examples
• In recording an interview, a radio is playing in the background. The owner of the song could sue the person recording this and the archive for copying this as a © violation, even though it is only a very small part of the background.
• In a videotaped interview, a television or website is in the background. The owner of the television program or website could sue both the person recording and the archive.
• In documentary photographs or video on a street, the owner of a background advertising poster or product or car manufacturer could sue the recorder and the archive
• When you capture a web page that displays a copyrighted photo by linking to it (not actually copying it), you may be violating © law
• New laws (“broadcast flag”) may cause all recording devices to immediately shut off if they detect a digital copyrighted song or television signal in the background
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Underlying RightsA film/video of 1950s home life should
not have the tv on
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Underlying RightsStreet video should avoid recording music
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Background:
Underlying Rights Archives may have a right to the whole but not have
a right to the components. Third party information, underlying rights are often
granted for a limited time or a particular kind of use, or a particular geographic region. This is particularly salient for multimedia works.
Eyes on the Prize, It’s a Wonderful Life, photos in Barbara Kruger works-
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underlying image from Thomas Hoepker’s “Charlotte as seen by Thomas,”Originally published in German photography magazine Foto Prisma in 1960
Kruger’s Untitled 1990 (It’s a small world but not if you
have to clean it)
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What Interpares looked at
http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Papers/interpares-copyright.pdf
Problems caused by Underlying Rights
Legality of Refreshing/Migration/Emulation
A Preservation right to copy Dangers involved in infringement Jurisdiction issues
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Distance Learning: Violating ©
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Format Changes
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Various Formats Intermixed (Hampton)
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Lots of Formats; Hard to Store (VidiPax)
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Plain DVDs are no longer the latest format
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Who collects them (and how)?-
• Who is collecting representations of changes in how we teach?
• Who is collecting documentation of what life is like on our campuses?
• Is anyone being comprehensive in their collecting?
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Library Events-UCLA
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iTunes-U
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iTunes-U UCB
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iTunes-U UCB Oral Histories
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iTunes-U UCB Campus Poetry
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iTunes-U UCB Art & Technology Events
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iTunes-U UCB Campus Events
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iTunes-U Duster Video
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Do we trust iTunes to preserve these?
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Blog Resources-Univ of Houston, Clear Lake
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Classroom Blogs (UH-CL)
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Myspace for U of Fl course
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My UCDavis
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UC Davis Writing Course
-Dr. John Stenzel class
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Pervasive Cellphones
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Facebook as Research Data NYT 12/17/07
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Facebook as Research Data NYT 12/17/07
• “Our predecessors could only dream of the kind of data we now have”
-Nicholas Christakis, Harvard Sociology Professor
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Who collects them (and how)? repeat
• Who is collecting representations of changes in how we teach?
• Who is collecting documentation of what life is like on our campuses?
• Is anyone being comprehensive in their collecting?
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New approaches to dealing with the
problem-• Research• Education• New Paradigms
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Research:
NYU/Public Television Project
• $6 million project -- 50% from LC/NDIIPP• Marry asset management to preservation• Preserve a broad set of elements (including ancillary
material)• Life-cycle mgmt (add metadata as soon as a clip comes in)• Establish a community of stakeholders, working together
for preservation (stations, university, librarians, journalists, historians, producers, scholars, …)
• Build an OAIS Server• Explore appropriate file formats, wrappers, METS
extensions• Develop sustainable business model
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Education:
MIAP Projects (Paper Tiger)
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Education: Digital Preservation class:
Assessing an old Website
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Education:
Preserving Eyebeam’s ReBlog (Pamela Smith project)
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Education:
Audio Lab Preservation Plan
AssessmentTable #1: Number/Percentage of Audio in Special Collections:Archive Total audio in each archive % of audio holdings in each archiveFales 2,825 8%Tamiment/Wagner 17,620 50%University Archives 4,234 12%TOTAL 24,679 69%
Table #2: Number/Percentage of Audio Formats per Archive in Special Collections:Archive Wire LPs 45s _” _” 1” Cassette Micro Audio CD DATFales — 199 496 89 2 1,508 69 334Tamiment/Wagner
87 — — 6,895 — — 10,630 6 2 84
UniversityArchives
— 13 — 3,610 — — 610 — 4 2
TOTAL 87 212 50 11,001 89 2 12,748 75 340 86Total % offormat
< 1% 1% < 1% 45% < 1% < 1% 52% < 1% 2% < 1%
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Education:
Audio Lab Preservation PlanEquipment• Equipment for production of .wav files and for
working digital – digital:• Mackie HDR 24/96 (for audio capture for .wav files)• Medea RAID (storage of .wav files)• Marantz 340 CD Recorder or equivalent (for making CDs)• Sample Rate Converter (converting between digital files)• Graham-Patten ADC-20 A-to-D audio converter (for out to speakers)• Apple dual processor G5 desktop workstation (running software for
digital audio processing)• Apple 20” Cinema Monitor
• Racks will need to be purchased to house the audio equipment. One to two racks are recommended that will be placed 3 ft. from the wall.
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Handling New Media class:
Photo CD
• Compression: Using the PhotoYCC encoding, a DCT based algorithm developed by Kodak, data is stored at up to six levels of resolution in Image Pac files. There are three kinds of compression used to reduce Photo CD images. First is the infamous lossy compression scheme called Gamma compression. Next the data is converted from RGB to PhotoYCC to allow for a lossy compression scheme called "chroma subsampling.” This is like JPEG compression, however the PCD file includes an error correction scheme to help reverse the losses. The data is compressed with a lossless scheme called Huffman Coding. This scheme searches for recurring patterns in the data and encodes them as smaller codes.
• Kodak describes its overall resolution as “visually lossless.” As stated on their website, “The Image Pac compression process uses quantizing to compress the residual data, and so there is some data lost that is not restored. It is very little, and not visually noticeable, but it is not accurate to say it is zero.” Each image is saved in five different resolutions on the Kodak-produced Master disc (78KB to 18MB) and in six different resolutions on the Pro disk (78KB to 72MB). The Pro disc handles such media as 35mm, 120 and 4x5 film and unmounted slides, and can hold 25-30 images, while the Master disc is good for 35mm roll or cut film and mounted slides, and can hold up to 100 images. Originally, only Kodak produced these discs on Photo CD Imaging Workstations (PIW’s).
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Research/Professional Service:
Disaster Recovery-New Orleans
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Capturing & Preserving Campus Performative
Events• UCLA Library at early stages of trying to systematize the collection of these, & struggling with issues of– collecting– preservation– access
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Electronic works require a new way of
looking at Preservation• Little worry about the
“original”• Formats and hardware frequently become obsolete
• We need to constantly re-format• Long-term planning and “preservation administration” is absolutely essential
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Managed Environment
• More than temperature & humidity control
• Periodic monitoring of the works• Periodic monitoring of the technical environment for viewing the works (software, systems, hardware)
• Trusted repositories
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So, with electronic works, the focus should be less on
stable temperature(Helsinki underground vaults)
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And less on the construction of Vaults (Helsinki
underground vaults)
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But more on ongoing management of a work
without worrying so much about physical embodiment
Producer
Management
Consumer
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Paradigms Shifts needed
Old NewPhysical preservation
atmospheric cntrl
ongoing mgmt
What to save? artifact idea + ancillary material & documentation
Cataloging Individual work in hand
FRBR
Later access Artifact & documentation
Restaging, ancillary material & documentation
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Challenges of Film, Video, and New Media Preservation
Howard Besser, NYU Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program
• http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation • http://www.ptvdigitalarchive.org/• http://www.iasa-web.org/tc04/• http://www.screensound.gov.au/screensound/screenso.nsf/
• http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_tv.html