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Buffalo Broadcasters Association needs
your help with the Archiving Project!
For
several years, The Buffalo Broadcasters Association has been storing and is
now in the process of having gifted to us, all the old newsfilm that went
into the preparation of newscasts on Channels 2 and 4 during the ‘60’s and
70’s. We are working on a plan to receive the U-matic tape that recorded
later efforts. This is an irreplaceable visual history of Western New York
during the time Buffalo was booming. It includes all the fires, political
maneuvering, and the day-to-day reporting that made up life in our area.
But the film continues to deteriorate and before it does so, we need to
catalog the miles of film, and transfer everything to digital memory.
This is a real treasure trove of history! We’ve managed the
critical first step – to save all this historic film. Our goal now is three
fold:
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Digitize the film and tape to preserve its content for future
generations of students, researchers, and producers.
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Catalog and index the content of the film and tape by creating a digital
database, which will make what we have easy to access by topic or time
period.
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Build a facility where those images can be stored and accessed. Such a
facility would include climate controlled storage for the original
source material.
This is a major project and
could cost us over $1 million. With the aid of some small grants, we were
able to have professional archivists do a preliminary survey of what we
have, and lay out a plan for the project.
We now have received a challenge grant of $10,000 from the Harnisch
Foundation of New York to continue with the work. We will receive this
amount only if we can raise $10,000 from individuals
Will you
help us preserve this Buffalo history, as seen through the eyes of our own
local broadcasters? All donations will be recorded on our Honor Roll of
supporters and your gift is tax-deductible to the extent provided by law.
Please
respond today by sending your donation to:
Buffalo
Broadcasters Association, 112 Knowlton Street, Kenmore, NY 14217 so we can
meet the terms of the challenge.
If you have any film,
video or airchecks that you can
donate to this project please contact The Buffalo
Broadcasters Association at
bflobroadcasters@aol.com .
Thanks in advance for
your help. We will keep you posted on our progress!
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