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Making old films accessible calls for passion and patience

Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike - Images for the Future In the restoration lab at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands old films are restored and digitised. They also recently started work on the processing and storage of digital films.
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Pictura Imaginis, images of images

 - As part of the Images for the Future project, the Pictura company in the North Holland town of Heiloo is digitising a total of 1.4 million negatives from the archives of the Nationaal Archief, So (...)
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A passion for film

Attribution Share Alike - Tom De Smet has been the manager of the Film Department at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum since 1 January 2010. Prior to that, he was the project manager for film con (...)
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The Film Museum and its nitrate bunker

 - On the De Koningshof estate in the woodlands of Overveen, there is a hidden concrete bunker where the Film Museum has archived a large proportion of its flammable nitrate film stock. Martin van L (...)
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National Archive backstage

 - The National Archive is standing in line for a huge opportunity of conservation and digitization. At the beginning of June, the National Archive – in collaboration with Sound and Vision and Filmm (...)
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Sound and Vision in top gear

At the beginning of Images for the Future, in 2007, Sound and Vision mainly focused on achieving the targets for digitization of audio and video material. In October 2008 the audio material counted over 20,000 hours on quarter-inch tapes and DAT tapes, of which the largest part belongs to the Images for the Future project. In collaboration with Technicolor over 11,000 hours of video material has now been digitized as well.