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104 Film Preservation 1993
you keep your negatives in good condition. And the release prints could be transformed into high definition. They can be scanned. There's a lot of things you can do with those release prints that are relatively low cost. There really is nothing out there with the track record that will replace film. At least not right now, not for the foreseeable future.
MR. GARDINER: Warner obviously, and Time Warner, is looking into every new technology available. And as you all heard about our super highway in Florida, we're actually utilizing some of it already. But what we're finding on the film side, especially in the preservation side, even these new scanning technologies like Domino and like Cineon from Kodak, the whole purpose behind them is to get film, digitize it, and get it back it to film, which is very interesting. A lot of people are spending a lot of money to do it.
We're finding that everybody is still, for the far foreseeable future, saying we're going to put film in a camera and capture the image on that. Where it goes from there is anybody's guess because we've all had the conversation about glass discs are going to come out, super dense pack glass disc storage from IBM. All that But that's more a backup storage medium. The original capture medium still seems to be film.
The way to protect film on film seems to be the right way to do it It was mentioned this morning I believe that it costs ten times as much to do it electronically as it does to do it on film, even though it's already expensive. And the only thing I think that we're going to continue to protect, we're protecting aU of our new production with the YCM separations and, as I said before, the past will be absolutely taken care of the same way.
And I think that the new technologies as far as dissemination of information will be much more readily used for f)eople to see this material but not necessarily to preserve it Because I think the preservation of the original will still be film-based for many years to come.
MR. TABB: I want to thank all of you for your useful presentations and responses. We're a little bit behind, so we need to move quickly to the next and last panel If Mr. Luce and Ms. McLane will come forward quickly we'd appreciate it AU right Mr. Luce, Gregory Luce, from The Conunittee for Film Preservation and Public Access.
Statement of Gregoiy Luce, The Committee for Film Preservation and PnbUc Access
MR. LUCE: I want to thank the panel for allowing us to testify today. I know we're running late, I will try to get throu^ our oral testimony as quicldy as I can.