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Recording Media (Entertainment)
Pinhole Camera to Webcam Cinema to Video –from pier side flick viewers to the days of cable TV and then the era of You Tube, Myspace and SeeMeTv.
Recorded History once relied on human depiction and description: art and writing. But with the advent of recording technology, suddenly the moment could speak for itself... or so it seemed – the objectivity of recording media is somewhat false, for there is always the start and the stop, the chosen frame.
The digital age has offered somewhat of a resolution – the democratization of these chosen perspectives – now it is not only the media elite that record and exhibit history.
But media preservation remains an issue. At a 2006 conference, Deanna Marcum from the Library of Congress noted:
“We must remember that the most basic preservation techniques—protective storage, climate control, disaster planning—remain as important
as the newest mass deacidification cylinders and digital migration methods.
The future of preservation also depends on our ability to keep ourselves from being overwhelmed by digitization. Right now our ability—and desire—to create digital resources is far outrunning our ability to preserve them.â€
