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		kmoser 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LaborBerlin: State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector If you're archiving motion picture film, there are no pixels, only film stock. The archive process may include digitizing, but even then you still have to deal with the original film media, which is the primary task of a film archivist.

nebula8804 8 months ago [–]

When you play it back, you don't get the same look of a physical medium rapidly moving through a mechanical machine. You just don't.

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