Playing Pictures of Sound Recordings

Griff · 04-08-2013, 07:49 PM

Holy crap!

Three years ago, a survey team identified a staggering 569,148 time-based media objects on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University—that’s over half a million sound recordings, video recordings, and reels of film. The earliest items documented in the survey report date back to 1893.

However, that report doesn’t mention what might be considered IU Bloomington’s oldest time-based media of all. That’s not because we didn’t do a thorough job. Rather, it’s because the items in question don’t look or behave much like the media we were surveying—discs, reels, cylinders, cassettes, and so forth. Instead, they’re pictures in books. And pictures in books seem well outside the scope of the Media Preservation Initiative.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t play them back—and some of them are pretty exciting.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-09-2013, 09:00 AM

That's pretty bizarre.

glatt · 04-10-2013, 07:24 AM

That's really cool! I have to pick the brain of a guy I know at the Library of Congress. Ask him what he knows about this.

Clodfobble · 04-10-2013, 07:47 AM

Dude, this is totally awesome. I'm stunned it works.

BigV · 04-10-2013, 09:57 AM

Griff, I see what you did hear.

Flint · 04-11-2013, 12:12 AM

On report.

Griff · 04-11-2013, 05:47 AM

xoxoxoBruce · 04-11-2013, 06:04 AM

Get thee to a punnery.

04-08-2013, 07:49 PM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Playing Pictures of Sound Recordings Holy crap! Three years ago, a survey team identified a staggering 569,148 time-based media objects on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University—that’s over half a million sound recordings, video recordings, and reels of film. The earliest items documented in the survey report date back to 1893. However, that report doesn’t mention what might be considered IU Bloomington’s oldest time-based media of all. That’s not because we didn’t do a thorough job. Rather, it’s because the items in question don’t look or behave much like the media we were surveying—discs, reels, cylinders, cassettes, and so forth. Instead, they’re pictures in books. And pictures in books seem well outside the scope of the Media Preservation Initiative. But that doesn’t mean we can’t play them back—and some of them are pretty exciting. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

04-09-2013, 09:00 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That's pretty bizarre. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Dude, this is totally awesome. I'm stunned it works. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

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BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Griff, I see what you did hear. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

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04-10-2013, 07:24 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	That's really cool! I have to pick the brain of a guy I know at the Library of Congress. Ask him what he knows about this.

04-11-2013, 05:47 AM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	__________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

04-11-2013, 06:04 AM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Get thee to a punnery. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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