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56 Film Preservation 1993
finished on videotape, which is something new in the last several years. We're going back and reconforming those negatives that are still in pieces to make sure that we have a proper negative representation of those shows.
We alio have afanott completed the nitrate convenion to safety film project. We have about, I would say, twenty titles left and once that is done,-iwe're donating the nitrate to the Library of Coogreu for' storage and future use and research. The safety fihn we will keep for expk}itation. Thank you.
MR. TABB: Thank you. Mr. Murphy.
StatemcBt of Pkllip & Maip^, Vice President, Opcratloiit, TelevisioB Group, Paramoaot Pictares
MR. MURPHY: I'm Phil Murphy, vice president of operations for the television group of Paramount Pictures Corporation, the motion picture and television arm of Paramoimt Communications, Incorporated. Those of you in the room that have seen me speak before, such as at the AMIA, realize that I usually don't work from a prepared script. I usually get up and I'm very animated, playing the room, but I notice that Annette has put velcro on my chair today, so I will read. [Laughter.]
We appreciate the opportunity to testify today before the National Film Preseivation Board of the Library of Congress. Paramount has a deep commitment to preserving our motion picture and television heritage and applauds the effort of the Library pursuant to the National Film Preservation Act to study and report on this subject
* Paramount Pictures adopted a worldwide preservation commitment many years ago. Our visual heritage includes many of the major filmmakers of this cent\uy and the corporation recognized its obligations of archival continuance early on. Almost ten yean ago the studio stated refurbishing the original architecture of the Hollywood lot Buildings were renamed after such notables firom the Paramount past as Sturges, De Mille, Lubitsch, Wflder, Adolf Zuker, B.P. Schulberg and Hal Wallis.
The studio was lauded by the Los Angeles Conservancy for its efforts to preserve its historic buildings. Our efforts in motion picture film asset protection were the results of a major management commitment that gave Paramount the industry's most comprehensive preservation program and established the Paramount preservation standard, one to which all preservationists could actually refer.
In 1987 Paramount's top management formed a working group to determine the most effective means of assuring that the studio's vast Ubraiy would, in fact, be preserved for future generations. The group determined that an asset protection program would