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👰The World of Tim Burton is coming to the Design Museum, featuring pieces from his personal archive👰 The exhibition will represent the artist’s creative output from childhood to the present day with a collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, moving-image works, sculptural installations, and set and costume designs. All which focus on the recurrent visual themes and motifs found in the distinctive characters and worlds found in Burton’s art and films.💀 Ensuring that Burton's public and personal archive has been well preserved is an essential part of an exhibition like this.🥀 To find out more about this exhibition read here https://lnkd.in/eg88KTCd #Archives #Preservation #TimBurton #TheDesignMusuem

Have you seen the new documentary 'I am: Celine Dion' on Amazon Prime yet? The film paints a portrait of Dion's life shaped by music - from her childhood in Quebec to her global stardom, all while facing the challenge of stiff-person syndrome. The documentary combines archival footage from her impressive 40-year-long career, including interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of her Las Vegas residency in 2021, highlighting the importance of preserving archival footage.💫

🖥️ Internet Archive has launched an MTV news repository of nearly 480,000 articles! 🖥️ When mtvnews.com was disabled hundreds and thousands of articles about music and pop culture were removed from the internet. So, the the not-for-profit Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 479,020 of MTV News web pages to keep this piece of cultural history alive. The new collection ensures that much of MTV News’ articles remain accessible in some form, including MTV News’ well-known “Mixtape Mondays” 🎧 When asked about their work, Internet Archive said: 'Without such artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. Our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form. The Archive’s mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an Internet library for researchers, historians and scholars.' - and we couldn't agree more!  Read the whole news story here - https://lnkd.in/dyWsMwH2   #Archives #MusicArchives #Preservation

Our #archiving experts in Wellington, New Zealand celebrated a literal milestone recently, as the MWA Spinner T (Sepmag) replay machine they use for transferring 16mm and 35mm audio film clocked its 2,000th kilometre of played footage - enough film to stretch the entire length of New Zealand and quarter of the way back again! That's about 35-40% of the total sepmag film processed so far by the Wellington team.

Today we are celebrating - very belatedly but wholeheartedly! - our Most Valuable Colleague for February, Bruno Manunza. As an AV hardware and maintenance engineer in our Brussels facility, Bruno plays an essential role in ensuring our legacy equipment is kept in full working order. In recent weeks he has been central to bringing further equipment online to allow us to increase capacity in Brussels, while also providing a wide range of equipment for off-site projects around the world. Bruno, it's hugely appreciated how you are willing to work on machines outside your comfort zone and to provide support to maintenance teams both at our global facilities and at client production sites. Thank you for all that you do!

"Understanding the parameters of each job at the outset is critical not only to delivering the required assets but also to achieving the efficiencies that come with automated mass #migration" 💬    Our Customer Service Representative, @Edwin Van Driessche, spoke to @Digital Media World about our three-year project with @Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales to digitize and migrate over 200,000 #Betacam tapes for long-term #preservation. 📼📹   Read more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/eZQXgsG3

Don't let your digital archive become a silent movie! 🎥💥 Digitization is a great tool for preserving analogue formats, but it’s only the first step. #DigitalPreservation goes beyond simply converting files. Complacency is the real villain! Having the mindset of "it’s saved digitally so it’s safe” puts your assets at risk. We’re loving this insightful piece from The Hollywood Reporter, featuring our industry colleagues, which highlights the fragility of archives and the chilling possibility that today’s master files could vanish forever, echoing the fate of lost silent films. A stark reminder of the importance of a thought-out preservation strategy and why digitization is just the start of the archival process. Read the full story: https://ow.ly/U0iG50R28BF

The BBC Archive just got a whole lot bigger thanks to Radio Circle UK 📻✨ Over 1,000 radio plays, including hidden treasures like a collaboration between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, and the first stereo recording of Macbeth, have found their way back home thanks to reels and home recordings sent in by the public. This incredible story highlights the power of #archiving and public participation. You never know what forgotten gems might be hiding in your own collection! Dive into the story: https://ow.ly/AFOy50R02mr

Happy #WorldStorytellingDay 📖 Today, we celebrate the power of stories that connect us across cultures and races. But with a vast amount of legacy-format content at risk of degradation, the technology needed to play those formats fast disappearing, and a proliferation of new content putting pressure on archives, some stories risk being lost forever. At Memnon, we believe in preserving these irreplaceable narratives. That's why we've dedicated the past two decades to safeguarding cultural heritage. We've digitized over 4 million hours of content and continue to migrate an impressive 17,000 hours every month. Let's use this day as a call to action for the entire industry. Join us in ensuring the stories that define who we are don't fade away 🌎💬

This year's #HPATechRetreat gave us all a lot of food for thought! What trend resonated most with you? The event highlighted key themes shaping the future of the media, including: 🤖 AI is no longer a “maybe,” it’s a “must-have.” But, successful integration requires investment and innovation. 💾 Digitization matters more than ever with obsolescence of tech and knowledge posing a real challenge. 🤝 In a digital world, trust is key. AI can help, but can also create new security concerns. Dive deeper in TV Technology's recap: https://ow.ly/AFHn50QVYnl