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From: stan@clyde.UUCP (Stan King)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: film stock fading
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 18:47:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 18:47:34 1984
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>  All film stock fades. Even with modern chemistry film
>  fades. Even if you store it in darkness at the proper
>  temperature and humidity it fades. Archivists are very
>  concerned about this and companies like Kodak are working
>  on the problem, but if you want film to last, then it has
>  to be in black and white.
>  
>  Wait, I take that last statement back. Magnetic storing
>  and digital storage in general will last as well.
>  
>  		-Marty Sasaki

Has anybody here ever tried to read a ten-year old magnetic digital
tape?  20-year old?  Seems like color film compares pretty well to that.