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Pro-Tek Vaults, Which Helped Restore ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Moonlighting,’ Charts Course for Future of Film Protection
As Pro-Tek Vaults celebrates its 30th anniversary, the company shares how it will further film protection moving forward.
“We work with some of the most sophisticated owners of intellectual property in the industry, so they understand that preserving their content for the long run is critical, and it’s something that requires specialized environments, but also a level of expertise and care that a dedicated team that focuses exclusively in this area can bring,” says Pro-Tek CEO Doug Sylvester. Active work for Warner Bros., which involves 4K or 8K scans and transferring original audio masters, includes “Rhythm of the Rio Grande” and a number of other Westerns from the 1940s, as well as the pre-Code classic “The Divorcee” (1930), which was nominated for several Oscars beyond Norma Shearer’s Academy Awardwinning performance. If cinema is to indeed continue offering a living record of our collective memory, it’s those quotidian decisions regarding preservation — of both films themselves, and all assorted ephemera — that will prove most invaluable in helping to protect a fuller context of modern culture for future generations.
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