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important process. Even though all the films almost without exception are shot in colorwc'rc used to seeing color in cveiything--we still find that black and white is something that we need. So we're very familiar with black and white.
For this reason and for others, part of our responsibility became the restoration of park films, those films that are running in the park. Many of them have run for a number of years and it is found that, as we know, things do deteriorate. The prints that you make today aren't as good as the prints that were made five years ago. Some of these films get changed out every eighteen months. Some do not get changed out every eighteen months, but have existed in the parks for ten years and more.
Disney has found it necessary to make sure that these films as projected have "opening day quality" to them. To do that such things as rewashing negatives, going back, remaking, preprint elements, IP's and IN's need to be done. With improving film stocks, this is something that would have to be done or should be done regardless if something were to fade or something were to deteriorate in some manner.
So one of the important things that I want to stress today is that we're not looking at a situation that is necessarily entirely due to neglect by a previous generation. We're looking at a situation where the technology continues to evolve. There are emerging technologies. We'll hear the word digital used over and over especially when it conies to sound. Digital is a very good thing for sound. Digital is a very good thing for the visual medium as well, but of course it takes far more ones and zeros to record a visual image than it does a sound piece.
But the main important thing here is that no matter the condition of the film-let's say the original negative in park films, if it's been kept in pristine condition, and the best vaulting conditions to industry standards or exceeding industry standards~you still, every so often, will want to go back and make another preprint element using a better piece of film, a finer grain, intermediate stock.
Library restoration also comes under our responsibilities and I say library restoration because, in fact, at Disney we do have a title to it. Funds have been set aside for library restoration of the theatrical films at the Walt Disney Company. I'd like to read basically the statement of policy concerning Ubrary preservation, because there is a difference here and I'll get into that as soon as I finish this statement.
The following is the policy of the Walt Disney Company on film preservation:
The company has conducted and continues to conduct preservation efforts for all titles owned by the Walt Disney Company. Black-and-white separation masters, exist for all theatrical films and continue to be made as protection elements on current feature productions. With the exception of 13 titles all original nitrate film elements have been copied