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58 Film Preservation 1993
UCLA Archive, Library of Congress and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences film archive.
Several hundred other films such as Barbarella, Escape from Alcatraz, Greatest Show on Earth, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Harlow, Is Paris Burning?, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany, Out of Towners, Paint Your Wagon, Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah, Shane, Ten Commandments and True Grit were fully or partially restored.
The protection-by-separation goal took a major step forward in January of '89 when the first trailer truck full of Paramount elements was shipped to the custom constructed deep mine vaults in the eastern U.S., a site which is shared by such noteworthy institutions as the U.S. Patent Office, the FBI and the Library of Congress. These vaults were constructed under Paramount direction and to our specifications of temperature, relative humidity, fire suppression and validated security access.
Almost at the same time Paramount Communications, Incorporated, authorized the construction of a 40,000 square-foot archive building on our Hollywood lot in order to house all Los Angeles-based original materials which at that time were spread among several outside storage facilities, laboratories and on-lot storage modules. The archive would hold the original elements of Paramount titles on film and tape and an editing complex for the staff that created ancillary market versions of Paramount theatrical titles who were the prime users of this vault material.
The archive building was truly a fast-track project. After the January '89 approval, our in-house planning and development department coordinated the needs of the building with the size restrictions placed on the site by governmental agencies. The building's environmental, fire suppression and security systems were custom designed.
Ground was broken in September and the building was completed in July of the following year. The first weekend in August we moved over 70,000 magnetic items into the building over a 36-hour period. Film items followed shortly thereafter. The third leg of the protection-by-separation scheme was installed in 1991 with the completion of an environmentally controlled storage facility in London, England, in order to house Paramount's European elements.
All three facilities are tied into a personal computer network which now includes prime vendors and some 100 users around the world. Any movement, plus editor and product notes about any item in the data base, is available to all in our corporation who need the information regarding the three-quarter million items worldwide now in our database. This free flow of information contrasts greatly with the typical fiefdom where individuals hoard information that they need on file cards, lined pads, binders or, in the worst case of all, in their memories.
The major preservation work is done. We can't know what future technology will
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