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Los Angela Hearing 77
digital mediums have a tremendous impact on the storage of visual and audio information, and will, in the mid-term, improve storage of master material of theatrically released producu.
It remains imperative that the preservation, archival and creative communities become integrated in this engineered process in order to preserve the creative nature of this art form.
In closing, I'd like to thank the National Film Preservation Board and the Library of Congress for this opportunity to express our views. We're hopeful that this dialogue continues. Thanks.
MR. TABB: Thank you, Mr. Humphrey. We'd next like to welcome Roger Mayer, who is a member of the National Film Preservation Board as well as a representative, of course, of Turner.
Statement of Roger Mayer, President and Chief Executive OfDcer, Turner Entertainment Cc, accompanied by Richard May, Vice President, Film Preservation and Distribution Services, Turner Entertainment Co.
MR. MAYER: Thank you. We have really not prepared a statement different than the one that I submitted to you. We've given you not only the history of our preservation efforts, but all the present preservation status of what we've done and how our ongoing system works.
We work a little bit differently than other companies do, in that we are not as structured. I'm very, very impressed by the maimer in which they work and I think I have no criticism of it. We just work differently. And that is that we have a general overall policy that this is what we want to do and my instructions are simply to get it done and with the gentleman on my right, Mr. Dick May, we put in a budget each year for the amount of money we think is appropriate to spend. And if that is approved, and it always has been, then we go forward and do the job.
We do it in collaboration with the conmiunity. We do it in collaboration with laboratories and optical hoiises, with archives, with people that can help us, with people with whom we have relationships. And we try to learn as much as we can. But we really don't do it in a structured manner.
I hear people talking about prioritizatioa. ki our gu% «• really don't have too much of a problem with that because as you all, att the people oa this panel certainly know, Turner Entertainment is a succeMor to MGM and we started this work in 1967. And we in effect have preserved every piece of film, as fiar as we know, that is under our