What measures are we taking to preserve media?

I send a lot of stuff to r/ObscureMedia and if I have the capacity to, I'll mirror it onto Archive. With movies, if they aren't already backed up, I'll check to see if they're on Letterboxd, IMDb, or TMDb so others have a frame of reference to go off of.

Well, GrigioGuy had deleted his channel, so now about 5 episodes of Space Cats are completely lost in English once again, with only the Arabic versions surviving, so none for that show.

Everytime I watch a YT video I pop it into wayback machine and archive it.

I am re-uploading them.

Absolutely. Shamelessly over the past five years have probably spent way too much on my setup but worth it. I'm motivated by the fact that time is ticking on how little time we have left to save anything analog that is left from the last century. We are probably he last generation who will able to do it. #AdoptAFilm

I have a dehumidifier and two air conditioners running 24/7 to keep perfect climate. Whenever I can afford to I buy up people's family home movies, VHS collection, 8mm film, Hi8, and my audio archives for reel to reel. I also scour the internet for unreleased garage bands on cassettes and reel to reel.

For my 8mm and 16mm film I keep them vacuum sealed in a dedicated chest freezer in my basement until I can afford to finish building my 4K res scanning setup. No museum would care about saving these historic footage so it is up to people like us. My films and audio date from around 1930s to 1980s. A mix of home movies, television news LPP prints, lost television shows, unsigned bands, concert bootlegs. My goal is to start in about 2-3 years from now when I save up some Benjamins. When I finish I am willing to take on anyone's major collection free of charge and archive anything for anyone. Sort of like a nonprofit to save home movies and lost material. 

All together I have become overwhelmed by 40,000 feet of film, 60 hours of video tape, and 200 hours of audio tape of unreleased material. I have archived zero of it as of yet until I can afford to complete the setup to make this possible. It would simply be too much money to pay someone else to do it for me. I refuse to give them away and have a major company or museum slap a giant watermark across them and charge people to view stock footage. I want to share them to the archive for everyone to use. I'm so glad I found this forum where there are like minded people who care just as much as I do about saving history from around the world. My friends think I'm crazy.

Equipment I have so far...
Panasonic AG7350 (to archive VHS soundtracks (superior to Blue Ray)
Betacam SP 2800 (Usually television commercials and college projects)
Teac V800 (for Hi8 transfers)
BV10 TBC (early model for VHS)
Framemeister (for upscaling videotape material)
MCI JH110 (For my 15IPS speed tapes / heads relapped by JRF Magnetics)
Teac 7030GSL (for my 4 track stereo tapes / heads replaced by JRF Magnetics + new motor bearings)
Kenwood KX-1030 (cassette transfers w/ adjustable azimuth)
Genex GX9048 (for DSD audio capture of music material)
Pace PPS-200 (Desoldering station w/ new gun)

What I need...
Variable speed 8mm, Super8, and 16mm projector
Z CAM E2-S6 (for film capture)
Recapped Panasonic AG1980 (need line TBC)
JBC CA-2QE (Automatic solder feed station)
*Need to recap Pan VCR + MCI JH110

 
  

I am going to keep on trucking. Thank you sir. It's great to be here. 

The hardest part as we all know is really the fact that not many care about lost media and definitely not home movies. I have the names of the people tied to each film so would love to locate the original families and share it with them. The largest museums and National Archives could care less about them. That is where you and me come in. There is a disturbing amount of companies that try buying up historic footage like this in bulk and charge people to use it and slap a watermark on it. I have no intentions of copyrighting or hoarding anything I have. I really want to give it all away to the community here. This is one of the only internet forums that is dedicated to preserving lost media. 

There is a big movement to adopt a film. So started with some space in my fridge and finally got a dedicated freezer to hold everything. Got the idea from Indiana University which apparently has one of the largest archival centers in the country.

blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/filmarch/2012/08/16/the-freezer-project-film-decay-and-media-collections/

Many sleepless nights. The cartoon picture is too accurate!  I keep telling myself there are people out there who would care about this stuff. 

Here are some more cool pics. The funnest part will be the day I can share these to the world. I just know how amazing they will look when they get blown up with a nice film scanner. Going to be building a modified projector to work with a 4K DSLR.