Accessibility vs Archiving (Score 1)

I am in the business of converting film to video and feel it should be noted this is quite an expensive undertaking. In addition to cartoons and classics, there are millions of film reels in archives in places such as the Smithsonian, The Library of Congress, your local university and historical societies. I attended the 2004 Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference and found most curators are focusing on preservation of originals, which is a good thing. However, I would love to gain access (video, maybe streaming) to the millions of other movies that will likely never make it out of the vaults due to cost and available funding. Frame by frame restoration may have its place, but I would prefer a scratched up copy (on video). Automated filters could help, here are some freebies (which I do not use) that you could try for yourself with avisynth and virtualdub (all open source projects). http://bag.hotmail.ru/ http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/ http://virtualdub.org/