Notes
Working notes: how we capture tapes, what we change and what we leave alone, and what moved where.
Storage move: files now live on the media box
2026-06-14
The big transfers were outgrowing the little box that runs this site, so everything under /media/ is now served from our media box instead. Links on the film pages point there…
Restoration log: the 1943 scan
2025-09-02
The print scan of The Spider and the Tulip came to us with the frame line drifting across the image every few seconds, a sign of a scanner that was not registered properly. We…
Our capture chain, 2025 edition
2025-01-22
People ask what we use. A consumer S-VHS deck with a working TBC, a separate frame synchroniser, a plain analogue-to-SDI converter and a capture card that records uncompressed…
Why we still care about tape
2024-03-10
Most of the films here exist as one or two prints in institutional collections. Those prints get scanned rarely, and the scans get released even more rarely. Meanwhile, a lot …