Photographic Film Technology in Motion Picture Industry and Preservation of Motion Picture Film

Abstract

Digital technology has become popular in the motion picture industry. On the other hand, technology to preserve huge amount of digital data of motion pictures for a long term has not been developed. There is an urgent demand to safely preserve motion pictures made digitally for a long time. Photographic film technology that has been developed with motion picture can integrate with digital technology and assume a new mission to preserve digital data, making up for the weakness of digital technology in long term preservation.