11 Jun Pandemic brings new life to old movies
Movie and television production is on hold, thanks to the coronavirus. Yet with people sheltered at home and every theater and entertainment venue also closed, streaming services have become something of a lifeline. All that new leisure time and a captive audience has put film…
25 Feb Preserving remnants of nitrate film’s heritage
Nitrocellulose was the standard film base for about 60 years of photographic film production, from the 1890s until the 1950s. It’s been about 70 years since nitrate film was replaced by cellulose acetate, yet many historical nitrate film assets linger in archives and collections, hanging…
12 Dec Protecting valuable media assets from fire
If the past few years are any indication, the need to prepare for wildfires will be a more urgent priority for individuals, communities and organizations alike in California and other places at risk. While not as devastating as the 2018 tragedies, this year’s fires along with…
24 Oct Heading to AMIA 2019 in Baltimore
Corporate and other archives, media companies, libraries, historical societies, universities and...LAC Group’s media and archiving specialists. These are some of the organizations represented by the Association of Moving Image Archivists or AMIA. LAC Group has been an AMIA member and conference sponsor for many years.…
13 Aug Preview: Cinecon Classic Film Festival 2019
LAC Group is excited to be a sponsor of Cinecon 2019, the 55th annual Classic Film Festival and memorabilia show taking place in Hollywood over Labor Day weekend, August 29th through September 2nd. Loews Hollywood Hotel is the host hotel, with all screenings at the…
22 Apr Providing digital archiving services
Tim Knapp is SVP of Content & Archive Services at LAC Group and holds over 35 years of experience in motion and still film imaging and most recently in digital. This article was adapted from an interview by freelance journalist Bob Gibbons.
17 Dec AMIA 2018 recap
LAC Group’s content and archive services division (formerly known as PRO-TEK Vaults) recently attended the 2018 annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), held from November 28th through December 1st in Portland, Oregon. The AMIA Conference is the largest of its kind…
13 Feb Nitrate film preservation
Although not manufactured since the early 1950s, thousands of feet of nitrate-based film footage still exist in collections around the world. We find historic, motion picture film owners ranging from corporations established decades ago to small museums. Often, they either don’t know if their holdings…
03 May The art and science of descriptive metadata
Digital cataloging with solid metadata is a vital part of the film preservation and archiving process. The larger the collection size, the more critical this process becomes—yet often it’s overlooked and undervalued by collection owners. For those of you not quite familiar with metadata, it’s…
