Saving our visual tāongaMatthew Salmons/Fairfax NZ Kaiapoi film restorer Larry Jamieson would like to see a film archive in the South Island. Kaiapoi based film restorer Larry Jamieson says much of the South Island's unseen visual tāonga is lost because there is nowhere to put it. Jamieson said that without a film archive in the South Island, much of the older domestic film stock was lost. Matthew Salmons/Fairfax NZ Kaiapoi film restorer Larry Jamieson preparing film to be converted into a digital file. Damp and daylight were the enemies of film, Jamieson said.

Source: Stuff June 22, 2017 00:56 UTC