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"NFSA Restores" with Gayle Lake

For some years now, the Friends of the NFSA has made regular donations to the NFSA for its 'NFSA Restores' program. This is the program through which the Archive digitises, restores and preserves Australian films so they can be seen in today’s digital cinemas. In our webinar on 14 Apr 2024 NFSA’s Chief Curator Gayle Lake discussed the Restores Program, including how films are selected for the program, the research involved and the restoration process itself. There was a Q&A at the end.

Background:

Film means many things: an industrial product, an entertainment, and an art form of the 20th century. It is also ephemeral and fragile. Films shot on physical mediums (nitrate, acetate, polyester) all degrade and deteriorate over time. Digitisation on its own is not a solution – a digitised degraded film is still degraded.

And so, to protect our film heritage, films need to be found, restored, preserved and shown to new audiences. NFSA Restores does this, but while once up to six films a year were restored, now it’s just one.

RECORDING: https://youtu.be/GfICSwabVUk


The Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive Founding Patrons:

Gil Brealey, Bryan Brown, Anthony Buckley, Patricia Lovell, Chris Noonan, Michael Pate, Fred Schepisi, Albie Thoms