How do you oversee and deliver a large-scale mass videotape digitisation? How do you select and curate the most ‘at risk’ videotapes from film archives around the UK and bring to the public?
Together with regional and national partner archives, the team at the BFI National Archive has worked on saving more than 60 years of screen heritage shot on videotape from as early as 1971 from every corner of the UK. Join the BFI Replay team as they talk through the journey from selection and preservation to digitisation and presentation.
This is a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to mass-digitise over 100,000 videotapes from the UK’s national and regional film archives.
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