On 08/09/15 13:56, Richard Symonds wrote:
He also says that there is the germ of an idea for WMUK here though - perhaps having a contract with a decent provider who would digitise them for us. It's something we will have to look at over the next few months to see if it can fit in our future plans!
Sounds good. A service rather than a piece of hardware.
The next question is "... is your 8 mm home movies film collection historic?". I wondered if that question could compared to "... is your contribution to Mass Observation historic?".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-Observation
(Should WMUK contact the University of Sussex to see if they have moving images? And how they process film?).
If the material is at all historic the regional film organisations
South West Film & Television Archive
...will copy over using a professional process (liquid gate) that takes account of old splices, cleans the dust off etc."
This reminded of Huntley Film Archives on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/user/HuntleyFilmArchives
Regards,
Gordo