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Los Angeles Hearing 89
MR. SHEFTER: Thank you. Dan?
MR. SLUSSER: I think these gentlemen have stated the desire for sharing documentation and for transmitting data among studios, collectors, educational institutions and creating an ability for us to document this data. I think on an immediate basis, without being repetitive of what they said, one of the simplest and quickest things that this Board and this Committee could do is to start immediately to try to standardize the nomenclature among the various vaults, coUectors, studios and companies that are involved in the preservation movement.
I found during the inventorying and barcoding of all of our material that there are a multitude of different terms, all of which mean the same thing. I think we can lose an awful lot in translation if we don't get into a standardization that we can all work from.
MR. SHEFTER: Anyone else from Universal?
MR. OTSfEIL: Yes.
MR. SHEFTER: Bob?
MR. O'NEIL: From a technical standpoint I want to bring up one thing that I think is going to effect all of us. And it was talked about a little bit, but I think it's something that really needs to be more in the forefront With the environmental changes that are going on, there are certain chemicals that the studios and everybody. Library of Congress, we are all using. They are very important chemicals to preservation. Without these chemicals we're going to lose it.
We've got a couple more years where we're going to be able to use tricholorethane and percloroethylene and then they're going to be gone. As soon as they're gone, the quality, the heritage, the integrity of the film that we have today is going to perhaps go with it unless somebody comes up with the technology to replace that And that's something that is really going to be important
Because we can talk about preserving this material, but the quality of it is going to be gone. And it's something-in Hollywood, the Technology Councfl-we're looking at it; we're trying to find other ways. I think some of the other companies around the country are as well. But if there's any way that you can help to encourage, either, whatever your sources are, to start looking into finding replacements, so we are going to be able to continue to sonic clean film and get a good piece of clean film before we print When we print, be able to print liquid gate and get rid of the scratches and the digs and all the inherent problems that are in the film. Without that, we're all going to be very disappointed.
And the people, our kids, and the generations past us, they aren't going to have