Preserving the Hand-Painted Films of Margaret Tait An MA Dissertation by Joss Winn, 2002

To say that archival records are permanent seems to fix their nature beyond doubt and to establish beyond challenge the full extent of the archivist’s responsibility to them.1 Two years ago, while writing a paper on the preservation of amateur and small gauge film, I came across a reference to an article in the American [...]

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