Archiving in the Digital Age

Archiving in the Digital Age, By John Courtmanche, says movie execs say they’re constantly being second-guessed by technology advocates for not trusting computer archives.

Hollywood studios are not turning their motion picture film assets into digital archives, in favour of a format that is as agnostic and neutral to technology change over the decades as possible. Senior vault executives at Paramount Universal, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox and MGM all confirmed that 35mm film remains their most trusted medium for archiving their visual assets.

Senior vault executive sounds like a cool gig.