- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc (30 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786408367
- ISBN-13: 978-0786408368
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,771,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This study looks at the preservation process, the issue of colourisation, and commercial film archives. It also provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle and the museums.
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The Mis-adventures of film preservation, 8 July 2002
By Bruce Calvert "silent movie collector" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States (Paperback)
Anthony Slide writes a fascinating history of the film preservation movement in the United States. After covering the dangers of nitrate film and the wholesale junking of film prints during the silent era, he documents the beginning of the archive movement in the 1930s and 1940s. You would think that the book would be filled with stories of heroic efforts to save films, but there are just as many stories of incompetent and egotistical administrators who did more damage than good. The American Film Institute did a good job for a few years helping archives to preserve and restore films, but it quickly became a political organization and mostly claimed credit for projects that it had nothing to do with. The book goes into detail into the "colorization" controversy, a process which thankfully has pretty much disappeared since this book was published in 1992. There is also a section on how Scandinavian archives have done a much better job of preserving their countries' film heritage. If you are a serious lover of silent films or the golden age of sound films, you will definitely want to read this book!
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