Week 2

This week saw us continuing our cataloging of the educational films at Filmmakers. The more I look at these films I woonder about them. I have not actually watched these movies and yet i am getting to know them intimately: looking for scratches and disfigurments, seeing how some of them have retained their color while others have begun to turn pink or are already a dark magenta. I learn if the film had a voice in sound or if it moved people through pictures alone.

I find myself scrolling through these films and wishing that I had the chance to actually watch them. I wish we had the time to watch them and look for these defects. But time is the problem. Time is slowly eroding these films and we don't have enough time to give each of them the full attention they deserve.

All of this in conflicting. I am learning about each film, cataloging their makeup and yet I don't know how much good it will come too. I hope that the work will be able to save some of these films. I hope we can eventually find them a place to live and be cared for, but that is the question - who out there would really care for them. We're trying. And that at least is something.