video preservation: cleaning

TELEVISION AND VIDEO PRESERVATION 1997
A Report on the Current State of American Television and Video Preservation   
Volume 1, October 1997
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS
A Report on the Current State of American Television and Video Preservation

http://www.loc.gov/film/tvstudy.html

and:
http://www.el.net/ma/mm.vidpres.html

resources for video preservation:
http://www.arts.state.tx.us/video/resources.asp

a short overview:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Video+preservation:+a+report+from+the+trenches-a018826985
and:
http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/

http://www.amianet.org/


a very nice article by Sharon Grace on the experimental television's website:
http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/preservation/prestext.php3?id=16&page=1
"Essentially the tape cleaning process consists of running the tape, at very high speed, over a razor-type blade which removes debris and oxidized residue from the tape surface."

Jim Lindner on why all tapes need to be cleaned differently:
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/lindner/lindner1.html
"This realization is quite important because it means that the general application of a single solution "cure" can actually make the tapes much worse then they were before the cleaning process was applied."

(list will be continued)

links: see http://mediaarthistorieslinkcollection.blogspot.com/2008/01/links-for-post-video-preservation.html