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Los Angeles Hearing 75
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Los Angeles Hearing 7.
We'll begin by hearing from Mr. Humphrey. Ill remind everyone that we're ready to hear up to ten minutes of prepared remarks. We'll go through the entire group and then well be asking questions. Mr. Humphrey?
Statement of ^^^lliam A. Humphrey, Senior Vloe President and General Manajer, Sony Pictues Entertainmenl
MR. HUMPHREY: Good afternoon. Sony Pictures Entertainment has taken a leadership role in film preservation and restoration. Our program has broken new groimd in creating a model for collaborative effort on a national scale, the Film and Tape Preservation Committee, which is represented by the Library of Congress, UCLA, The Museum of Modem Art and the AFI.
Sony Pictures has developed a proactive financial support program for major American archives. Currently five institutions, including a few of which are not associated with Columbia's hSrary, are funded aimually. These funds directly support specific film preservation activities as well as public viewing to promote seeing films as they were intended, on the motion pictwe screen.
Significant financial and staff resources have been concentrated on preserving Columbia Pictures Library, consisting of 3,000 full length feature films, shorts, and serials. Over the last three years, preservation work has been completed on 200 films, nitrate conversion of 420 films has been completed, and 13 films have undergone significant restoration.
Sony Pictures has dedicated resources to creating a state-of-the-art storage facility to strengthen inventory control over film elements woildwide and has prepared and implemented corporate policies to assure proper disaster recovery, qtiality control and asset management.
As a leader in new technologies, Sony Pictures has initiated research into the impact of new technologies, such as high definition digital tape, to find positive contributions to film preservation. Our position on film preservation focuses primarily in three areas. First, the strong belief that a preservation partnership between the major motion picture studioA, film archives, and technical specialists is required. We view our Film and Tape Preservation Committee as a model program.
Second, a standard for the planning and prioritization of the preservation and restoration of films should be established. Preservation of existing fihn Kbrarics should be prioritized. Third, new tachnologies will increasingly impact film preservation as well as the storage and distribution of feature fihm. The film preservation community must carefully evaluate the impact of these changes and the use of new electronic and information technologies to enhance the permanent recording of picture and sound