This PrestoCentre digest summarises the considerations and decisions made in the context of a large-scale film scanning operation by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Sound and Vision guarantees the sustain- able preservation of the Dutch national audio-visual heritage and makes it accessible to professionals, educational institutes and the general public. The considerations presented by the authors (Tom de …
White Paper: Film scanning considerations
Sound and Vision is one of the six original partners of the programme ‘Images for the Future’ which started in 2007 and finishes in 2014. The main goal of the programme is safeguarding Dutch audiovisual material by realizing maximum accessibility to the material for the targeted user groups. Within the scope of the programme archive material is conserved, digitised and …
Amateurfilmplatform
Op het Amateurfilm Platform vindt u zeer toegankelijke beschrijvingen voor het bewaren en digitalisering van film, video en digitale dragers.
Beelden van het verleden. 7 jaar beelden voor de toekomst.
In zeven jaar tijd hebben Beeld en Geluid, EYE Filmmuseum, het Nationaal Archief en Kennisland meer dan 90 duizend uur video, 20 duizend uur film, zo’n 100 duizend uur audio en 2,5 miljoen foto’s geconserveerd en gedigitaliseerd. Het gedigitaliseerde materiaal wordt inmiddels hergebruikt in talloze toepassingen, van lesmateriaal en Wikipedia tot apps en diensten voor de creatieve industrie. Beelden voor …
Memoriav Recommendations Digital archiving of film and video: principles and guidance
The focus of these recommendations is on dealing with digital data of an audiovisual nature. This document is intended to provide guidance and advice on digitization and digital archiving for archivists and curators of collections. These Recommendations take the form of a critical introduction, with the aid of which specific solutions can be developed and then implemented depending on the …
Timeline of Historical Film Colors
In the 120 year history of film, several hundred colour processes have been developed. Many had their roots in nineteenth century still photography. This website describes all significant colour processes, but also puts them in a contemporary and historical context. The information on the website gives the technical detail on how the process works, but also describes how the process …