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Exploring Film Archiving in Malaysia for Public Preservation, Conservation and Access of Visual History

The Malaysian film industry has entered the digital industry when all production and national broadcasting companies shifted to digital equipment and facilities. In general, this raises the issue on how to preserve local films from here on out regardless of the video recording method and the questio...

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Main Authors:	Aliffazraie, Jali, Qistina Donna, Lee Abdullah, Miaw Lee, Teo, Chong Lee, Yow
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	UNIMAS Publisher 2022
Subjects:	CD921 Archives DS Asia H Social Sciences (General) HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa) N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR NX Arts in general
Online Access:	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38807/1/Malaysian%20films1.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38807/ https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/IJACA/issue/view/204/96 https://doi.org/10.33736/ijaca.v5i1
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spelling	my.unimas.ir.388072022-07-06T06:48:50Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38807/ Exploring Film Archiving in Malaysia for Public Preservation, Conservation and Access of Visual History Aliffazraie, Jali Qistina Donna, Lee Abdullah Miaw Lee, Teo Chong Lee, Yow CD921 Archives DS Asia H Social Sciences (General) HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa) N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR NX Arts in general The Malaysian film industry has entered the digital industry when all production and national broadcasting companies shifted to digital equipment and facilities. In general, this raises the issue on how to preserve local films from here on out regardless of the video recording method and the question on public accessibility on the materials in the archive. While there are some government institutions tasked with digitising and preserving films (negatives) in Malaysia, little is known about the procedure, protocol, and priority of this development while the public could access little to no information about this matter. Through an in-depth interview with key personnel from National Archives of Malaysia (Arkib Negara), the study investigates the fate of Malaysian films especially the ones produced using film format. Finding indicates that while there is intensive work conducted by Arkib Negara as the official Public Record Service to digitise archived films, priorities are given to film documentaries and governmentrelated news coverage thus setting aside the jewels of Malaysian historical and classical feature films towards uncertain future UNIMAS Publisher 2022-06-30 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38807/1/Malaysian%20films1.pdf Aliffazraie, Jali and Qistina Donna, Lee Abdullah and Miaw Lee, Teo and Chong Lee, Yow (2022) Exploring Film Archiving in Malaysia for Public Preservation, Conservation and Access of Visual History. International Journal of Applied and Creative Arts, 5 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2636-9427 https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/IJACA/issue/view/204/96 https://doi.org/10.33736/ijaca.v5i1
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topic	CD921 Archives DS Asia H Social Sciences (General) HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa) N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR NX Arts in general
spellingShingle	CD921 Archives DS Asia H Social Sciences (General) HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa) N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR NX Arts in general Aliffazraie, Jali Qistina Donna, Lee Abdullah Miaw Lee, Teo Chong Lee, Yow Exploring Film Archiving in Malaysia for Public Preservation, Conservation and Access of Visual History
description	The Malaysian film industry has entered the digital industry when all production and national broadcasting companies shifted to digital equipment and facilities. In general, this raises the issue on how to preserve local films from here on out regardless of the video recording method and the question on public accessibility on the materials in the archive. While there are some government institutions tasked with digitising and preserving films (negatives) in Malaysia, little is known about the procedure, protocol, and priority of this development while the public could access little to no information about this matter. Through an in-depth interview with key personnel from National Archives of Malaysia (Arkib Negara), the study investigates the fate of Malaysian films especially the ones produced using film format. Finding indicates that while there is intensive work conducted by Arkib Negara as the official Public Record Service to digitise archived films, priorities are given to film documentaries and governmentrelated news coverage thus setting aside the jewels of Malaysian historical and classical feature films towards uncertain future
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author	Aliffazraie, Jali Qistina Donna, Lee Abdullah Miaw Lee, Teo Chong Lee, Yow
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title	Exploring Film Archiving in Malaysia for Public Preservation, Conservation and Access of Visual History
title_short	Exploring Film Archiving in Malaysia for Public Preservation, Conservation and Access of Visual History
title_full	Exploring Film Archiving in Malaysia for Public Preservation, Conservation and Access of Visual History
title_fullStr	Exploring Film Archiving in Malaysia for Public Preservation, Conservation and Access of Visual History
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