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And they all have the same reasons for wanting them. They want them for study. They want them for posterity. They want them in order to be able to exhibit them. They want to control how to exhibit them. It is not satisfactory to them that they borrow it from someplace else, they want one of their own. And it is not a matter of one archive, and it's not just archives.
I mean, it happens. We make a list of the archives of some of the universities in this country and national archives of one sort or another. But if you started to do this, why are you preferring Harvard over the University of Pittsburgh. They all have film programs. They all have these needs. They all want to show films. And they all want some way to have access to them.
It was certainly~you would certainly think that some sort of a national method of doing that would be a good idea. I think it requires study. I don't know exactly how you would do it. But certainly this inventory we're talking about might be a print inventory as well as a film materials inventory-we all have those inventories.
How should we handle it as a practical matter now, because those demands are on us right now? What should we do? I'm sure the rest of the panelists will comment in a similar vein. What we do is, we try to have one good print, hopefully in both 35mm and 16mm, of everything. And any reasonable demand for it, any reasonable request for it, by professionals, we fulfill.
We ask them hopefully, in many cases, to pay the transportation. We take it on ourselves usually to replace it after they rip it up, but sometimes we ask them, please could they pay for reel 2B they just scratched. You've got all those problems. You've got the problem of transportation; you've got the problem of what they do with the prints. And you've got the problem of the fact that if you've lent it to one group, you have a demand the next day by another group, and they simply don't understand why you can't make another print for them.
So all in all I think there's a need. I think it is an appropriate need. I think it would be something we could do of a very, very positive nature for study throughout the country. I'm not entirely clear how you'd do it, but I certainly think it should be studied.
And we certainly ask that our problems in trying to meet the requirements of such a thing be taken into account. Because when you own the amount of film we own and when you can think of the number of film festivals that everybody in this world would like to have tomorrow, I think you can see the size of the problem.