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98 Film Preservation 1993
We have been down that road an awful lot. And that is, that we will do what we think is a wonderful preservation job, which is completely subjective on our part. And we will hear from a lot of our very good friends from the archives saying, "we don't agree with that at all." [Laughter.] That should have been more blue, that should have been more~my God, I mean, we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a job on Gone with the Wind, which we thought really was quite superb, most people agree.
I can't tell you how many people wrote into us and told us that that 43rd frame in reel 7B is not what it should have been and this is the way you should do it. And we have had such discussions a number of times. So I think one of the problems to what you are~would like to have, is that if you're the one to decide which is best, fine, but it is not a term that's readily definable.
MR. TABB: John?
MR. FRANCIS: I just have one follow-up question. If we are to keep all the nitrate-the national collections are paying for keeping that at present~and if you're all saying, yes, we should keep it, shouldn't there be some way in which you should be supporting this activity financially.
This is the issue I was leading up, because this seems to be something that the national collections are really doing which benefits the studios. And I think the thing that's come out today is that we're looking after that nitrate material. We all know, we've suffered in the past from thinking we had things under control and then finding out we could do a better job.
MR. SLUSSER: David, a couple of things happened to us in the past. There was an approach a few short years ago where most of our nitrate was backed up by 16mm. This 16mm turned out not to be the right source of material for developing markets, markets that at the time we had no idea would exist Secondarily, there is a lot of technology, digital technology, on the horizon right now that could change a number of the directions that we've gone in the past or we may want to go in the future.
Based on that I don't think anybody can tell you, at least I can't, that we're prepared to change the approach we've taken, which is to continue to maintain the nitrate we have. We spend a lot of time and a lot of money doing it, because we think it's the right thing to do. We currently maintain nitrate vaults in New Jersey. It would be, in my opinion, a premature judgment at this point. If something were to occur over the next decade or so which brought a finality to that question, then I think we'd have to review it in that light.
MR. MAYER: I'd like to conmient that I think we should pay when it is our obligation to do so. But in all cases where nitrate was contributed, whether to the Library or other archives, we were asked to contribute and we volunteered to do so.