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CLASSIC COMMERCIALS TO BE RESTORED AND ARCHIVED IN U.K. Thursday, December 2 2004 The British Film Institute is planning to include a collection of restored classic television commercials in its archives under the banner "Making Advertising History." The BFI said that the restoration is being sponsored by the British subsidiary of Coca-Cola, which will work with advertising agencies to secure rights permits. Some of the ads were originally shown in movie theaters, including the earliest one in the collection, an 1897 ad for Dewar's scotch. Others include actors (more) HP COMPUTERS TO RESCUE CLASSIC TV SHOWS Monday, April 19 2004 Warner Bros. and computer giant Hewlett-Packard are expected to announce a partnership today (Monday) to restore classic TV shows and movies to a clarity rivaling contemporary film images. Reporting on the planned announcement, the Los Angeles Times observed that it "underscores the growing importance of digital technology to broadcasters and studios." The newspaper quoted Vikki Pachera, HP's vice president for global alliances and business development as saying, "When you look at an old film from (more) |
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A live motion picture adaptation of Snow White, produced in 1910 and unknown to film historians, has been discovered in England among dozens of other films dating back to the 19th century, the London Daily Telegraph reported today (Monday). The cache had been accumulated by the late John Huntley, who had willed it to the British Film Institute. BFI archivist James Webster told the newspaper, "I did not really have any expectations of what we might find when we began looking through the material, but it never crossed my mind that there would be a film adaptation of Snow White which we had never even heard of. Much of the material is not labeled so we are having to work out what it might be. Obviously there are clues in the films themselves."
