The Pittsburgh Symphony was generously awarded matching funds to digitize 300 reel-to-reel recordings made during André Previn’s tenure as Music Director. The recordings include concerts led by André Previn and 21 other conductors of that era, including Michael Tilson Thomas. This project was supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Historical Archives and Records Care Grant, a program funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The award from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission was announced in December of 2019. The project, originally scheduled to take place during the 2020-2021 season, was delayed due to COVID-19.
After decades of providing deacidification and media digitization services to universities, academic institutions, cultural entities and private companies around the world, Preservation Technologies is proud to announce that we are now ISO 9001:2015 certified for provision of preservation services for paper-based and audiovisual collections by Perry Johnson Registrars, Inc.
Recorded sound has a way of bringing history to life. We are able to eavesdrop on meetings and interviews, hear our favorite authors dictate their notes, and sit in on rehearsals of performances. 
In 2009 when KATV, then owned by Allbritton Communications Company, donated the KATV News archive to the Pryor Center. Approximately 300 hours of film dating from the 1960s to the late 1970s had been preserved. The Pryor Center recovered those existing film reels and partnered with The Media Preserve to restore and digitize the film. The Media Preserve is digitizing the film frame-by-frame in a high-resolution format. The handwritten log sheets have been transcribed and time codes linking the titles to the video files have been added.
The MediaPreserve scanned several films featured in this documentary.
Congratulations to Doug Sheer, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Artists Talk on Art on his retirement after 45 years. It was a pleasure working with Doug and the Archives of American Art to digitize portions of their amazing collection which consists of over 850 audio and video recordings. The collection has since been donated to the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Pushing the limits on the number and quality of reformatted motion pictures
We’re in the basement of the former bank building on the Fayetteville square that now serves as the home of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. There are boxes scattered about–lots of them. Those boxes are being filled with film canisters that will be shipped to a Pennsylvania company known as The Media Preserve, which has been in the audiovisual preservation business since 2007. The company has digitized materials for hundreds of institutions. Now it’s going to digitize more than 550,000 feet of film that was stored at KATV’s building in downtown Little Rock.
