More craziness with money and waste

Cookie_Monster

What the hell is the point of that, why can they not head on down to PC world or whatever, pick up a couple dozen portable terabyte hard drives, scan it all in and bin all that old format crap and store it cheaply and efficiently in a digital medium.
It'd also be more secure, multiple copies of each could be made and stored in different locations rather than piss away another 300k to build another building.



http://www.independent.ie/national-news/saoirses-timetravel-plea-to-preserve-films-2924806.html

ACTRESS Saoirse Ronan has been transported back in time to appear in some of the best-loved Irish films from down the years.

The time travel -- with the help of some digital special effects -- was done to promote the Irish Film Institute Archive Preservation Fund yesterday.

The fund was set up to raise €300,000 to ensure the storage and preservation of historically important Irish films.
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The IFI stores 27,000 cans of film and 10,000 broadcast tapes in climate-controlled surroundings.

The collection represents every decade since the first Irish cinema opened in 1909, with the oldest feature film preserved being 'Lad from Old Ireland' dating from 1910.

However, the space in the IFI stores has reached capacity and the institute needs to raise €300,000 to build an Irish Film Archives Preservation and Research Centre to protect film collections at risk of deterioration if not stored properly.

Ulysses Gaze

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

What the hell is the point of that, why can they not head on down to PC world or whatever, pick up a couple dozen portable terabyte hard drives, scan it all in and bin all that old format crap and store it cheaply and efficiently in a digital medium.
It'd also be more secure, multiple copies of each could be made and stored in different locations rather than piss away another 300k to build another building.



http://www.independent.ie/national-news/saoirses-timetravel-plea-to-preserve-films-2924806.html

Knowing Ireland it would probably cost €500,000 to do what you propose (scanning the movies) as a friend of a friend of one of the stakeholders would be hired to do it.

Saila

ACTRESS Saoirse Ronan has been transported back in time to appear in some of the best-loved Irish films from down the years.

Chuck Stone

Digitize.

Remove copyright.

Open source the whole lot.

Problem solved.

Cookie_Monster

Saila wrote: »

the 300k was to buy the DeLorean off Doc

Chuck Stone

Saila wrote: »

I'm guessing that she has been cast in an appeal advertisement where she appears to be in loads of old B&W films.

Na?

who the fug

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

the 300k was to buy the DeLorean off Doc

stil cheaper than what the UK paid DeLorean

Cookie_Monster

who the fug wrote: »

stil cheaper than what the UK paid DeLorean

well, 2nd hand, probably clocked, expensive fuel source (plutonium), several owners (that are actually all the same person).

It's probably a bargain truth be told, depends on what the annual tax is :rolleyes:

Duggy747

So many old films, so little places to actually view them considering many Irish films haven't even been transferred to DVD.

Bar YouTube, of course, they could've saved a couple by just uploading them all :pac:

ejmaztec

They could use Leinster House as it's not being used for anything important.

Sky King

Put them on the CLOUD, man.

Did that sound pro-active and 'with it' for all the youngsters?

Ammonite

Saw that sanctimonious ad with Saoirse Ronan in the cinema last week. What a waste of money, what person would bother contributing to this black hole.

Jesus Wept

Saoirse Ronan has been transported back in time

Worth every penny.