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The CBC archives is a unique depository of local TV and film. In the vaults of the CBC building at Hamilton and Georgia Streets are an estimated 35,000 cans of 16-millimetre film, and 30,000 videotapes. “It’s the largest collection of film in Canada outside of the Ottawa/Montreal/Toronto triangle,” said retired CBC archivist Colin Preston. “There’s nothing in the Prairies (like it), there’s nothing in the Maritimes. We’re it.” But the future of the archive is in doubt, because CBC is going through a digitization process. Material from across the country is to be shipped to CBC’s English headquarters in Toronto, where someone will decide whether it’s worth keeping. If they don’t, it may be tossed. http://bit.ly/2sMyJpp http://bit.ly/2sMyJpp+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra