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INTO THE FUTURE now available

David Green (david@ninch.org)
Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:11:10 -0400 

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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:11:10 -0400
To: ninch-announce@cni.org
From: david@ninch.org (David Green)
Subject: INTO THE FUTURE now available

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
September 9, 1997


The following announcement on the availability of Terry Sanders' new film
about the approaching crisis in preserving digital information comes from
the July/August issue of the Newsletter of the Commission on Preservation
and Access <http://clir.stanford.edu/cpa/newsletter/cpanl101.html>

David Green


                          INTO THE FUTURE Now Available



"Into the Future, On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age,"
a film by Terry Sanders, is now available in one-hour and half-hour VHS
versions from the American Film Foundation.

"Into the Future" is about the hidden crisis of the digital information
age. A sequel to the award-winning "Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the
Human Record," the film was produced in association with the Commission on
Preservation and Access and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Narrated by Robert MacNeil, the new film asks whether digitally stored
information and knowledge will survive into the future.

Will our descendants twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now have access
to the electronically recorded history of our time?

Can we even now read magnetic tapes from early Voyager probes into outer
space? What about reel-to-reel, CD-ROMs, and Windows 2.2.?

Into the Future features such prominent figures of the information age as
Peter Norton and Tim Berners-Lee. Funding was provided by the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Xerox
Corporation. The film is copyrighted by the Commission on Preservation and
Access, and a production of the American Film Foundation and Sanders & Mock
Productions.

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Ordering Information: The film may be ordered in one-hour and half-hour
versions by sending a check or purchase order for the total amount to:

                                 American Film Foundation
                                        PO Box 2000
                                   Santa Monica, CA 90406

                   For further information, contact the American Film
Foundation:
                             Phone (213)459-2116; Fax (213)394-1260.

                                          Prices

                        One-Hour VHS--$59.50 plus shipping and handling
                        Half-Hour VHS--$39.50 plus shipping and handling

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