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2022
Besides
finalizing
work
digitizing
several
thousand
videotapes
for
Dotdash
Meredith,
America’s
largest
digital
and
print
publisher,
we
started
off
the
year
completing
a
project
for
Cornell
University’s
Dairy
Management
Group,
covering
video
lectures
and
classes
given
by
Peter
Van
Soest,
professor
emeritus
of
animal
science
and
one
of
the
most
influential
scientists
of
his
generation.
The
content
will
be
used
as
an
online
resource
for
future
students
as
well
as
researchers
in
the
field.
We
also
had
the
privilege
of
digitizing
a
small
but
very
important
collection
of
audiotape
and
videotape
masters
for
composer
and
fiddler,
Judy
Hyman,
daughter
of
jazz
pianist
and
composer
Dick
Hyman.
We
also
began
a
great
project
with
Wegmans
Food
Markets.
Wegmans
is
the
largest
family-owned
food
store
in
the
US.
Their
collection
of
over
1,000
videotapes
covers
50
years
of
audiovisual
media
history
on
10
different
video
carrier
formats.
For
this
project
we
are
working
with
Adobe
Cloud
systems
to
upload
the
media
content,
along
with
metadata
generated
by
MTS,
to
the
client’s
Adobe
DAM
system
to
provide
searchable
content
with
rich
metadata
information,
so
that
employees
can
easily
find
and
access
content
for
training,
educational
and
post
production
requirements.
We
also
began
a
large
mass-migration
of
over
3,000
audio
CDs
for
the
University
of
South
Carolina’s
music
department.
We
secured
the
contract
by
being
able
to
offer
USC
an
extremely
affordable
rate
using
our
recent
investment
in
a
large
optical
disc
mass-migration
robot.
This
robot
is
capable
of
migrating
large
collections
of
optical
discs
including:
audio
CD,
video
DVD
and
optical
data
discs.
Ripping
disc
media
by
hand
involves
a
lot
of
labor
hours.
Robotics
dramatically
reduce
migration
costs,
allowing
us
to
offer
our
clients
a
very
affordable
price-point
with
a
much
shorter
turnaround
time.
In
April
we
began
a
very
interesting
project
with
the
Genesee
Valley
Council
of
the
Arts,
digitizing
over
600
audiovisual
media
items
covering
the
rich
oral
history
of
Upstate
New
York,
in
dozens
of
multi-media
formats.
We
also
began
a
twelve-month
project
digitizing
over
700
standard
audio
cassettes
for
the
Wood
Valley
Temple
and
Retreat
Center
in
Pahala,
Hawaii.
Because
of
the
region’s
extremely
high
humidity
and
the
temple’s
limited
resources,
there
was
no
way
for
the
media
to
be
stored
in
desirable
conditions.
The
cassettes
were
exposed
to
80%
relative
humidity
for
over
30
years
and
have
both
mold
contamination
and
serious
physical
deterioration.
Our
skilled
technicians
are
slowly
cleaning
and
repairing
the
tapes,
one
at
a
time,
prior
to
digitization.
This
project
is
a
labor
of
love
but
will
result
in
the
preservation
of
classes
and
oral
histories
of
some
of
the
world’s
most
famous
Tibetan
Buddhist
Dalai
Lamas
and
religious
leaders
that
came
through
this
temple
over
the
last
40
years.
We
were
also
pleased
to
have
held
again
this
year,
a
master-class
for
the
George
Eastman
Museum’s
Selznick
School
of
Film
Preservation
students
in
May.
This
day
long
class
introduces
master’s
degree
students
to
the
fundamentals
in
video/audio
preservation
and
digitization.
In
June
we
began
a
project
digitizing
over
1,000
videotapes
in
seven
different
legacy
formats
for
the
Larouche
Legacy
Foundation
covering
the
life
and
political
history
of
Lyndon
H.
Larouche.
Work
will
continue
through
the
end
of
2022.
In
September
we
also
began
two
new
CLIR
“Recordings
at
Risk”
grant-funded
projects.
The
first
is
digitizing
multiple
audio
formats
for
the
University
of
Idaho.
This
collection
covers
the
oral
history
of
minority
groups
that
established
and
flourished
in
Idaho.
The
second
is
digitization
of
legacy
video
and
audio
formats
covering
the
rich
history
of
the
Catawba
Indian
Nation
in
Rock
Creek,
South
Carolina.
Work
on
both
CLIR
Grant
projects
will
carry
over
through
the
first
quarter of 2023.
2021
Covid
continues
to
blanket
operations
of
many
businesses
during
2021
but
we
continue
to
be
blessed
with
many
great
projects
and
clients.
We
had
the
pleasure
to
play
a
role
in
a
recent
Netflix
exclusive
documentary
-
“Son’s
of
Sam:
A
Decent
Into
Darkness”.
The
producers
had
us
digitize
the
series
of
original
1970’s
reel-
to-reel
audiotape
interviews
of
David
Berkowitz.
This
four
part
documentary
was
the
#1
series
on
Netflix
for
the
month
of
August.
Beginning
in
July
MTS
was
awarded
another
large
scale
multi-year
project,
this
time
with
the
Meredith
Corportation.
Meredith
is
an
American
media
conglomerate
that
owns
major
media
brands
such
as
Time
Inc,
People,
Entertainment
Weekly,
Instyle
and
Food
&
Wine
to
name
a
few.
The
collection
consists
of
several
thousand
videotapes
in
14
different
analog
and
digital
videotape
formats
as
well
as
several
digital
disk
formats.
Digital
derivatives
will
be
produced
for
both
preservation
and
the
production
department's
current
workflow
formats.
We
also
start
more
work
re-mastering
video
for
Carol
Goss,
President
of
IAI
records
and
wife
of
famous
free-form
Jazz
musician
Paul
Bley.
We
will
re-master
more
of
Carol's
video
work
of
her
husband
Paul
performing.
In
May
we
were
privileged
to
be
asked
by
the
George
Eastman
Museum's
Selznick
School
of
Film
Preservation
to
hold
a
master
class
in
video
and
audio
digitization.
The
day-long
seminar
included
proper
client
needs
assessment
prior
to
beginning
any
project,
collection
triage
and
organization
and
best
practices
for
digitizing
both
analog
and
digital
video
and
audio
media
formats.
Through
the
first
quarter
of
the
year,
we
continued
to
focus
on
the
Iowa
Department
of
Cultural
Affairs
Grant,
to
digitize
audiovisual
materials
from
the
Bix
Beiderbecke
Museum
through
the
Davenport
Iowa
Public
Library.
The
project
has
been
very
rewarding,
preserving
lots
of
great
original
music,
radio
programs
and
personal
interviews
on
videotape,
reel-to-reel
and
cassette
audiotape,
disk
recordings
and
motion
picture
films.
We
also
digitized
some
wonderful
interviews
on
reel
to
reel
audiotape
for
the
estate
of
classical/jazz
pianist,
jazz
singer
and
actress,
Hazel
Scott.
Mike
Wallace
did
the
interviews
of
Hazel.
They
had
a
special
relationship
that
was
quite
unique
and
clearly
evident
in
the
interviews.
We
were
also
asked
by
the
Genesee
Brewery
to
make
a
site
visit
to
review
a
large
collection
of
video
and
motion
picture
films
documenting
the
brewery’s
history.
Media
Transfer
Service
helped
to
identify
the
different
media
types
and
advise
the
Genesee
Brewery
of
an
initial
action
plan
to
secure
safe
storage
and
to begin preservation of their collection.
2020
In
the
middle
of
March,
the
Covid
19
pandemic
began
to
spread.
MTS
was
very
fortunate
to
have
plenty
of
work
in-house,
along
with
some
wonderful
new
opportunities,
which
has
kept
us
very
busy
throughout
this
year.
Below
is
a
brief
of
our
activities
throughout
this
year.
We
are
very
grateful
to
our
clients
and
the
opportunities
we
have
had
to
keep
our
business
strong
and
stable
throughout
this
challenging
period,
while
having
the
privilege
of
working
on
some
wonderful
preservation projects.
In
the
first
quarter
we
finished
up
the
digitization
of
over
1200
hours
of
media
content
for
both
CLIR/Mellon
Foundation
“Recordings
At
Risk”
grant
funded
projects
with
the
State
University
at
Geneseo
and
the
Squeaky
Wheel
Film
and
Media
Art
Center
within
the
grant
deadlines
and
within
budget.
We
also
finished
digitizing
2300
videotapes
from
the
largest
bank
in
the
Caribbean
Islands
well
ahead
of
deadline.
We’ve
also
digitized
a
rare
short
film
for
preservation,
featuring
actress
Karen
Allen
(Raiders/Animal
House)
at
the
start
of
her
career
for
“Movies
On
A
Shoestring”
and
we
have
started
the
restoration
on
several
mix
master
original
¼”
audiotapes
featuring
the
famous
Jazz
Singer,
Blossom
Dearie.
The
tapes
were
stored
in
less
than
desirable
conditions
and
had
fallen
off
their
cored
reels
into
large
clumps
of
tangled
and
creased
balls
of
tape.
The
painstaking
process
of
slowly
untangling
the
tapes,
removing
the
creases
and
re-spooling
them
onto
proper
NAB
hubs,
then
baking
them
has
begun.
We’re
looking
forward
to
the
time
where
we
can
use
our
custom
Mike
Spitz-built
ATR-100
deck
to
digitize
these
unique
tapes
for
digital
re-mastering
and
commercial
release.
At
the
beginning
of
March
we
also
began
digitizing
a
collection
of
audio
and
videotapes
for
a
new
client,
the
Scholes
Library
at
Alfred
University.
The
project
is
a
South
Central
Regional
Library
Council
grant-funded
project.
It
includes
audio
cassettes,
reel
to
reel
audiotape,
¾”
U-Matic
and
VHS
videotapes
digitized
to
both
preservation
master
and
access
files.
In
the
summer
months
along
with
all
our
other
work,
we
digitized
a
one-of-a-kind
collection
of
¾”
U-Matic
videotape
recordings
of
Paul
Bley,
who
was
instrumental
in
the
free
jazz
movement
of
the
1960’s.
We
were
commissioned
by
Carol
Goss,
his
wife,
to
digitize
the
videotapes
to
uncompressed
master
digital
video
files
so
that
her
production
company,
Improvising
Arts
International,
could
do
post
work
on
the
content
and
re-
release
the
content.
In
September
we
began
a
new
project
digitizing
a
unique
collection
of
audio
and
video
from
the
Davenport
Iowa
Public
Library.
We
worked
with
them
to
apply
for
an
Iowa
Department
of
Cultural
Affairs
Grant,
to
digitize
audiovisual
materials
from
the
Bix
Beiderbecke
Museum.
Bix
was
an
internationally
known
Jazz
horn
player
in
the
1920’s
and
early
1030’s.
The
collection
includes
music
recordings
of
Bix
and
many
unique
interviews
with
other
musicians
of
the
time
including
Jelly
Roll
Morton
and
Louis
Armstrong,
who
discussed
Bix,
the
type
of
person
he
was
and
his
musical
accomplishments
during
his
short
life.
The
collection
includes
videotape,
cassette
and
reel-to-reel
audiotapes,
disk
recordings
and
motion
picture
films.
Content
is
being
digitized
to
preservation
master
files
and
files
for
streaming
online.
The
project
will
continue
through
the end of this year.
2019
In
late
November,
projects
with
a
tight
turnaround
came
in
from
both
the
Rochester
Institute
of
Technology
and
the
National
Technical
Institute
for
The
Deaf.
Even
with
all
the
work
in
house,
we
were
able
to
digitize
over
150
hours
of
content
on
audio
cassette
and
video
formats
for
these
clients,
before
the
end
of
the
year.
In
June,
we
began
a
12
month
project
digitizing
2,300
videotapes
in
eight
different
formats
from
the
largest
bank
in
the
Caribbean
Islands.
The
recordings
cover
30
years
of
the
bank’s
history,
on
nine
different
videotape
formats.
Tapes
document
the
bank’s
growth,
advertising
commercials
and
corporate
meetings,
to
training
videos
and
community
sponsored
events.
Preservation
files
will
be
produced
for
all
video
formats.
Back
in
May
of
2019,
two
of
the
clients
we
have
been
working
with
in
2018
for
grant
applications
received
“Recordings
at
Risk”
grants
from
the
Council
of
Library
and
Information
Resources,
sponsored
by
the
Mellon
Foundation.
One
is
the
Squeaky
Wheel
Film
and
Media
Art
Center
in
Buffalo,
NY.
Since
June,
Squeaky
Wheel
has
been
working
with
Media
Transfer
Service
to
digitize
a
large
collection
of
¾”
U-Matic
videotapes
comprising
the
Axlegrease
collection,
curated
selections
of
video
art
and
documentary
films
created
by
local
and
national
artists
that
were
broadcast
on
a
weekly
basis
in
Western
New
York
between
1987-1999.
The
other
CLIR
grant
was
awarded
to
the
State
University
at
Geneseo.
Their
collection
consists
of
recordings
made
by
Professor
and
Ethnomusicologist,
James
Kimball.
In
his
40+
year
career
at
SUNY
Geneseo,
Professor
Kimball
has
documented
master
traditional
musicians
of
New
York
State,
specializing
in
the
Eastern
square
dance
tradition.
These
include
unique
interviews
and
community
performances
of
notable
fiddlers,
square
dance
callers,
dance
musicians
and
community
members
whose
knowledge
bridges
19th
century
repertory
to
contemporary
practice
of
tradition.
Original
media
formats
in
this
large
collection
include
reel
to
reel
audiotape,
cassette
audiotape
and
video.
Both
collections
combined
total
over
1200
hours
of
content
and
are
being
digitized
for
preservation
and
shared
access.
We’re
proud
to
have
assisted
in
helping
both
these
clients
receive
these
grants,
of
which
only
20
in
this
round
were
awarded
out
of
hundreds
of
applicants
across
the
country.
Beginning
2019,
we
started
with
another
round
of
DVD
recovery
and
migration
for
Niagara
County
Community
College.
We
also
begin
digitizing
rare
16mm
motion
picture
films
from
the
archives
at
Saint
John
Fisher
College.
The
films
center
around
the
past
NBA
team
-
the
Rochester
Royals,
covering
games
and
highlights
from
the
1950's.
We
also
began
digitizing
videotapes
from
the
Thomas
Golisano
collection
at
the
Wallace
Memorial
Library
at
the
Rochester
Institute
of
Technology.
Mr.
Golisano
was
founder/CEO
of
Paychex
and
a
philanthropic
billionaire.
The
videotapes
range
in
format
from
D2
to
Digibeta
and
cover
news
and
media
events
featuring
Mr.
Golisano
outside
of
Paychex.
We
also
digitized
video,
audio,
motion
picture
film
and
slides
from
a
private
collection
to
be
housed
at
Cornell
University
and
another
private
audio
collection
which
included
cassette
tapes,
reel
to
reel
audiotapes
and
numerous
formats
of
disk
recordings
including
Gray
Audograph
disk
recordings
from
the
1940's.
Digitizing
Gray
Audograph
disks
require
special
equipment
and
software.
They
play
from
the
center
out
and
vary
in
pitch
from
the
start
of
the
recording
to
the
end.
Custom
turntables
allow
us
to
slow
the
playback
speed
down
to
20RPM
-
a
middle
ground
for
the
speed
of
these
recordings.
After
transferring
the
Gray
Audograph
disks,
professional
audio
processing
software
enables
us
to
change
the
pitch
throughout
the
recording
so
that
the
final
WAV
files
result
is
a
steady
pitch
throughout.
We
also
digitized
more
videotapes
from
the
Brockport
State
University
Writers
Forum
collection,
for
preservation
and
reference.
We’d
also
like
to
congratulate
both
Kirk
McDowell
and
Lindsay
Kurano,
two
second-year
students
with
the
Selznick
School
at
the
George
Eastman
Museum,
who
interned
with
us
over
the
past
year.
Both
have
accepted
positions
at
the
Library
of
Congress
-
Culpeper
Facility,
where
they
begin
their
full-time
careers
preserving
the
nation’s
audiovisual
heritage.
2018
finds
us
digitizing
more
videotapes
from
the
Brockport
State
University
Writers
Forum
collection,
for
preservation
and
reference.
They
include
early
interviews
of
famous
Pulitzer-Prize
winning
authors.
As
qualified
vendors
for
the
University
of
Rochester,
a
wide
variety
of
various
projects
have
been
coming
in
from
different
departments.
We've
worked
on
several
high-profile
cases
for
local
law
enforcement
agencies
and
law
firms.
We
have
also
migrated
two
rounds
of
content
from
Niagara
County
Community
College.
The
College
has
a
large
collection
of
DVD
video
disks
from
the
Department
of
Performing
Arts
library.
Because
the
disks
are
checked
out
by
students
and
teachers,
a
good
portion
of
the
collection
has
contaminates
and
scratches
on
the
data
side
and
a
percentage
of
the
disks
are
also
starting
to
have
data
layer
fading.
Our
job
is
to
pull
the
data
off
the
disks
as
a
file
based
format
for
preservation.
First,
we
resurface
the
disks
so
the
data
can
be
properly
read,
then
we
rip
the
data
off
the
disks
with
a
special
data
recovery
program.
To
date
we
have
had
a
100%
recovery
rate.
Saint
John
Fisher
College
has
us
digitizing
another
round
of
reel
to
reel
audiotape
media
from
their
Rochester
Radio
History
Collection.
These
tapes
are
human
interest
broadcasts
that
were
produced
for
public
radio,
many
of
which
went
national.
The
tapes
suffered
from
a
myriad
of
issues:
flaking,
soft
binder,
sticky
shed,
decaying
tape
slices
and
a
wide
variance
of
azimuth
settings
between
each
broadcast
-
15-20
broadcasts
per
reel
of
tape.
We
were
able
to
successfully
digitize
all
of
the
content
without
any
loss.
We
also
have
a
major
influx
of
larger
consumer
collections
coming
in
including:
slide
collections,
video
collections
and
motion
picture
film
collections.
One
of
the
consumer
projects
includes
digitization
of
a
wonderful
collection
of
16mm
motion
picture
films
covering
the
construction,
heyday
and
end
of
the
Rochester
subway
and
trolley
system
from
the
1920's,
through
1960's.
This
content
will
be
shared
with
the
local
library
system,
local
transportation
museums
and
local
cable access stations for broadcast.
We’d
also
like
to
congratulate
both
Katherine
Pratt
and
Conner
Simon,
two
second-year
students
with
the
Selznick
School
at
the
George
Eastman
Museum,
who
interned
with
us
over
the
past
year.
Katherine
accepted
a
position
at
the
National
Archives
and
Connor
is
producing
content
for
local
cable
access
as
well
as
working
with
Janice
Allen
at
Cinema
Arts, Inc.
2017
has
us
finishing
up
projects
for
The
Dharma
Ocean
Foundation,
The
Sisters
of
Saint
Joseph
Archives,
as
well
as
a
new
collection
of
3/4"
U-Matic
tapes
from
Brockport
State
University's
Writer's
Forum.
The
shows
were
produced
in
the
1960's
through
1980's
for
local
cable
access.
Many
famous
Pulitzer
Prize
winning
writers
and
poets
were
featured
on
the
show,
including
names
such
as
W.
S
Merwin,
Richard
Wilbur,
Isaac
Bashevis
Singer,
John
Ashbery
and
Anne
Sexton
as
well
as
other
historically
significant
writers
such
as
Allen
Ginsberg,
Robert
Hayden,
Isaac
Asimov
and
Gene
Roddenberry
just
to
name
a
few.
Some
of
these
programs
were
on
tape
formats
that
required
treatment
prior
to
digitizing
and/or
very
special
signal
processing
to
stabilize
the
video
signal
prior
to
digitization.
Now
these
programs
can
be
enjoyed
by
the
general
public
as
well
as
researchers
for
years
to
come.
We
also
started
scanning
a
second
round
of
several
thousand
still
image
assets
from
the
Caesarea
collection
for
the
Universities
of
Cornell
and
Cincinnati.
St.
John
Fisher
College
has
sent
us
another
round
of
reel-to-reel
audiotape
digitizing
for
their
Rochester
Radio
History
Collection.
Progressive
Insurance
has
also
commissioned
us
to
digitize
another
round
of
audiovisual
media
in
their
corporate
archives collection.
We’d
also
like
to
congratulate
Brett
Scheuermann,
our
second-year
student
with
the
Selznick
School
at
the
George
Eastman
Museum,
who
interned
with
us
over
the
past
year.
Brett
took
a
position
with
Sony
Memnon.
Brett
is
a
key
player
for
Memnon’s
film
archiving
services
based
at
the
Media
Digitization
&
Preservation
Initiative
at
Indiana
University,
one
of
the
largest
digitizing
projects
in
the
country.
2016
L
arger
projects
of
note
include
high-resolution
scans
of
over
8,000
still
images
including
slides,
large
format
transparencies,
large
format
photos
and
35mm
roll
film
negatives.
These
images
document
the
excavation
of
the
Promontory
Palace,
built
by
King
Herod
in
25
BC
in
the
ancient
city
of
Caesarea
Maritima
(located
on
the
shores
of
Israel).
The
dig
was
co-funded
by
Cornell
University
and
the
University
of
Cincinnati.
As
the
palace
was
unearthed
photographs
were
taken,
documenting
the
excavation
and
the
palace.
The
palace
was
then
buried
again
to
preserve
it.
The
scanned
photos
will
serve
researchers
and
scholars
for
generations
to
come.
Another
large
project
has
us
digitizing
1,000
videotapes
from
the
Dharma
Ocean
Foundation,
one
of
the
most
well
respected
Tibetan
Buddhist
teaching
and
meditation
foundations
in
America.
Digital
derivatives
will
be
used
for
both
educationa
l
streaming
now
and
archival
master
preservation
files
for
future
content
preservation.
We
also
digitized
another
round
of
promotional
and
advertising
assets
from
Progressive
Insurance.
We've
started
moving
digital
information
from
over
1,000
aging
DVD
video
disks
to
file
based
format
for
the
University
of
Rochester's
Mount
Hope
Family
Center.
We're
also
digitizing
a
collection
of
oral
history
interviews
on
cassette
audiotape
and
historical
16mm
film
for
the
Sisters
of
Saint
Joseph
archives.
We've
upgraded
our
video
capabilities
adding
several
legacy
videotape
formats
to
accommodate
new
client
requests.
We're
also
pleased
to
announce
a
new
partnership
with
the
George
Eastman
Museum's
Selznick
School
of
Film
Preservation
-
one
of
the
highest
regarded
schools
for
film
preservation
and
archiving
in
the
world.
MTS
hires
masters
degree
students
to
help
with
the
growing
workload
at
MTS.
The
students
work
in
a
real
world
environment
that
is
related
to
their
degree
and
MTS
gets
help
from
serious
young
professionals
that
are
up
to
speed
in many aspects of archiving.
2015
finds
us
working
on
more
content
from
Georgetown
University,
and
the
estate
archives
of
well-known
Jazz
musician
-
Don
Elliott.
New
projects
include
digitization
of
video
and
audio
oral
history
interviews
from
the
organization
-
Densho:
The
Japanese
American
Legacy
Project.
Based
in
Seattle
Washington,
they
are
one
of
the
largest
repositories
of
Japanese
American
history
in
the
country.
Video
formats
we
digitize
to
archival
master
file
and
reference
file
are
being
posted
to
the
web
and
available
here:
http://ddr.densho.org/
MTS
also
took
on
a
project
digitizing
the
archives
of
commercial
producer
Steven
Vaughan.
Back
in
the
'70's
and
'80's,
Steve
was
a
very
successful
commercial
producer
on
contract
with
companies
such
as
US
Air,
Channel
Fragrances,
Giorgio
Armani,
Fanta,
Nestle,
Anheuser
Busch,
and
Chrysler
to
name
a
few.
His
1"
master
videotapes
had
taken
on
mold
contamination
and
moderate
sticky
shed
breakdown.
After
treating
the
tapes,
we
transferred
them
to
archival
digital
master
files
and
reference
files.
By
September,
our
new
2,200
square
foot
facility
was
operational
with
plenty
of
projects
to
work
on.
The
second
half
of
2015
found
us
continuing
with
another
round
of
historic
interviews
of
Japanese
Americans
interned
during
WWII
from
the
Densho
organization.
At
the
same
time
we
began
a
new
project
digitizing
several
hundred
video
and
audio
tape
interviews
of
Holocaust
Survivors
from
WWII
for
the
Jewish
Federation.
Digital
derivatives
will
be
used
as
part
of
an
educational
curriculum
for
city
schools
as
well
as
master
archival
file
versions
for
preservation.
We
digitized
another
round
of
media
from
the
archives
of
the
corporate
offices
of
Progressive
Insurance.
We
also
digitized
original
music
produced
for
NASA
that
was
played
to
astronauts
while
on
missions
during
the
80's
like
Skylab.
This
music
was
also
inserted
into
landers
and
probes
as
part
of
a
time
capsule
representation.
2014
continued
our
success.
The
Walter
Williams
PBS
documentary
finally
finished
in
February.
Overall
-
a
very
nice
piece
to
go
to
broadcast
in
the
spring
of
2015.
Continuing
projects
for
the
Memorial
Art
Gallery,
St.
John
Fisher
College,
Georgetown
University
and
Progressive
Insurance
kept
a
steady
flow
of
new
audiovisual
materials
coming
in.
New
projects
included
the
first
round
of
digitizing
unique
video
and
audiotape
masters
from
the
estate
of
well
known
Jazz
Musician;
Don
Elliott.
With
the
help
of
his
friend,
Les
Paul,
Don
built
one
of
the
first
multi-
track
recording
studios
in
the
country.
Content
from
his
estate
includes
live
public
concerts
and
private
jam
sessions
in
his
studios,
which
include
friends
such
as
jazz
greats:
Bill
Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Phil Bodner and Big Joe Williams.
2013
was
our
busiest
year
yet.
Projects
for
the
PBS
documentary
on
Walter
Williams,
Memorial
Art
Gallery,
St
John
Fisher
College,
University
of
Rochester
mentioned
below
were
ongoing.
Highlights
of
new
projects
includes:
digitization
of
both
video
and
audio
assets
from
the
Jean
Craighead
George
estate
(famous
children
book
author),
as
well
as
16mm
motion
picture
film
from
the
1930's
and
1940's
for
Camp
Pathfinder
-
the
famous
canoe
camp
based
in
Algonquin
Provincial
Park.
We
also
began
a
multi-year
project
with
the
Department
of
Neurology
at
the
University
of
Georgetown,
digitizing
their
holdings
of
over
1800
hours
of
very
valuable
videotaped
lab
studies
on
brain
plasticity.
MTS
was
commissioned
to
digitize
Georgetown's
collection
that
spans
40
years
on
over
10
different
legacy
videotape
formats
for
both
laboratory
coding
and
long-term
preservation.
We
also
began
a
long
term
project
with
Progressive
Insurance
to
digitize
all
of
their
archival
audiovisual
media
assets
for
reference,
re-use
in
future
advertising
campaigns
and
preservation.
Finally
we
digitized
camera
original
16mm
film
taken
by
famed
ornithologist
Gladys
Gordon
Fry,
documenting
her
trip
as
one
of
the
first
woman
to
explore
Trinidad
and
Tobago
as
an
ornithologist
back
in
the
1930's.
Gladys
worked
for
the
Museum
of
Natural
History
in
New
York
City
and
was
know
as
the
"Bird
Lady
of
Central
Park"
for
her
unique
bird
watching
tours
through Central Park.
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