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Conservation

The conservation of the collection that the Beta Film Foundation manages focuses on three processes, according to the type of the original material: film, video and sound recording. We believe that it is of the utmost importance to broadcast these pieces of historical memory with the best technical quality.



Films

The original 9.5mm (with perforations in the centre), 16mm, 8mm, Super8, Super16 and 35mm, are stored in a cold-storage room in which a temperature of 5ºC and a constant humidity level of 35% is maintained. All the films have been digitized as AVI files with back-up copies on hard disks.

The first films date from 1947.

 
Videos

The first original videos are from the beginning of the 1970s and are recorded on one of the earliest domestic video formats: EIAJ. In 1974 we incorporated the IVC format, with  1”  tape on open reels, and the more common U-matic, 3/4 cassette.
As technology has evolved we have used: U-matic HB, 1” C format, Betacam SP (cassette ½”), DVCPRO (cassette ¼”), Betacam Digital, DVCPRO50 and DVCPROHD.
The material is stored in a cold-storage room in which a temperature of 15ºC and constant humidity level of 35% is maintained.

 
Sound recordings

We maintain recordings on wire from the 1940s, paper and polyester tapes, cassettes and modern digital formats on a wide variety of digital storage systems. All this material has been systematized and stored in WAV files recorded on hard disks with back-up copies, in a cold-storage room in which a temperature of 15ºC and constant humidity level of 35% is maintained.

 


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