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The Digital Dilemma- a report by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences- brings some new perspective on film vs. digital debate. In the end we may have to go back to film as a way to preserve, or at least until silicon valley makes a breakthrough. Read the NY times article http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/business/media/23steal.html

Interesting to me is the expensive cost analysis. The digital medium still liberates the artist in it's low cost, easy access. But what happens to the history? The millions of hours of video this generation is documenting, yet only those with the means to a seemingly endless bank account of funds could afford to preserve that documentation. Think about a great documentary you saw, something that exposed the truth or inspired. If it was digital will that work be included in the catalog of wealthy film archivists that select the "worthy"? Beware our history could be re-written much more easier than we ever imagined. To be continued...