Fallout

[onyxlynx]

Film prints, digital cinema, and preservation.

But studios and archives are also reluctant to loan films because projecting them eventually destroys them. Each pass through a projector, no matter how well maintained, leads to scratching and fading. When I tried to screen 35mm materials at the Library of Congress, Mike Mashon, head of the moving image section at the Library's Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia, told me that, "Every 35mm print now has to be considered an archival print." In other words, they can't run through a machine.

"El lenguaje del cine" is going to have some stretches of hieroglyphics, cuneiform, and Linear B at this rate.