| Brief History |
In 1997, the
archive purchased its first vault, 1,071 square meters, in
Shu-lin, Taipei County, the vaults were rented before. Soon
the new vault was not enough for storage and 1,137 square
meters were rented under the sponsorship of Council for
Cultural Affairs. The new vault is equipped with air
conditioners, and dehumidifiers. This has solved the problem
of storage temporarily.
In 1999, the archive salvaged 300 millions feet newsreels of
Taiwan Film Culture Company after the 921 earthquake, under
the instruction of our parent body, Government Information
Office. In 2000, China Film Studio (which was supervised by
the Ministry of Defense) deposited its collection to our
archive. Taiwan Film Culture Company and China Film Studio
were the major government agents made newsreels,
documentaries, and features in the past fifty years. To
preserve these two collections, another vault, 1,084 square
meters was rented.
In 2007, the acquisition increased rapidly, so another three
floors of vaults, 1,461 square meters, were rented. In June,
2009, Central Motion Picture Corporation deposited their
entire collection of feature films produced in the past 55
years and documentaries, short films and other deposits, so
another 2,138 square meters was rented, up to now the total
surface is 6,892 square meters.
Location:
Shulin City, Taipei County
Construction: industrial building, 11 floors, total 6,892
square meters
Staff: 19 |
| Equipments |
• Air
conditioners: 11 sets of air conditioners 20 R/T, 5 cold
storage cubes, 4 acclimatizers, 12
fresh air generators
• Film
equipments
1. Cleaning Room
2 ultrasonic cleaning machines, LIPSNER SMITH, CF 7200, for
cleaning stains and molds of 16
mm and 35mm
2. Film Checking Room
6 STEENBECK, 16 mm & 35mm editing tables
1 KEM 35mm editing tables
2 KEM double screens editing tables
6 KEM 16 mm & 35mm rewind and split table
1 KEM 16 mm & 35mm SAT restoration table
3. Vinegar syndrome Treatment
With 1 Vent Closet: to reduce vinegar before duplication and
cold storage
4. Debug freezer: use -30 ℃ temperature to freeze bugs
from film-related material
5. Subtitling: 2 computers: for subtitles with software
to capture time codes
6. Audio Room: for transferring sound from records,
reels, and cassettes to digital files
7. Photography room: for taking photos of large
materials, posters, stills, etc.
8. Scanning room: for scanning documents in high quality
of digital scanning
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| The Preservation Items |
•
Films: negatives, prints, trailer, dailies,
• Photography: photographic paper, positives,
negatives, slides
• Paper: posters, inventory of production,
documents, books
• Objects: film equipments, costume, props, awards
• Visuals: magnetic tapes, LDs, DVDs, VCDs
• Audios: magnetic tapes (reels, cassettes), CDs,
records
• Other film material: non film-related, important
documents |
| Collection (updated November, 30, 2009) |
14,244
titles of Chinese films (features, documentaries, short
films, newsreels)
2,911 titles of foreign films (features, documentaries,
short films)
14,955 discs
22,106 videos
13,505 books
83 film periodicals
5,030 titles of Chinese film posters (164,058 posters)
5,537 titles foreign film posters (38,905 posters)
2,060 stills (35,834 stills)
422 objects |
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