Produced for
The European Commission for Preservation and Access (ECPA)

Concept
Paula Witkamp (ECPA)

Text
Barry van der Sluis
Yola de Lusenet (ECPA)

English Text Correction
Sarah Jones

Photographs of Video Tape Formats
Laurent Baumann, Memoriav
and many others on the net who are mentioned in the link section

Additional Photographs
Barry van der Sluis
Martin Loquet

Video Errors Movie
Franz Pavuza, Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Special Thanks to
Richard Wright, BBC Future Media & Technology
Gabrielle Lin Friedman, Film- and Video Editor
Anne Muller (ECPA)
The Little Archives of the World Foundation (LAW)

Produced by
The Little Archives of the World Foundation (LAW)

Layout, Interaction and Web Design
Martin Loquet, Martz

Production and Direction
Barry van der Sluis

About Tape (ECPA)
TAPE (Training for Audio-visual Preservation in Europe), funded under the Culture 2000 programme of the EU, is a 3-year project for raising awareness and training by expert meetings, research, publications and workshops. TAPE focuses on audio-visual collections held outside the major National institutions with specific responsibilities for audio-visual heritage. Through a programme of activities TAPE aims to explore the requirements for continued access to audio-visual materials and the application of new technologies for opening up collections that provide living documentation of the World of the 20th century.



About Barry van der Sluis
He began his career during the 1960s as a film projectionist. At the 70mm Philips Cinema Du-Midi theatre in Amsterdam he became -fascinated by the technique of 70mm film and then worked as a technician at NLF film laboratory. In 1964 he joined the famous Dutch TV-pirate “TV-Noordzee” as a sound technician and camera assistant. Later he worked as a sound technician and film editor for cinema and television commercials and documentaries at Oscar-Film.
In 1971 he bought the prototype Steenbeck 928 editing table and in 1972 created his own post production company (Studio22). In 1981 he build a larger studio (Holland Satellite Television) for film and video editing, sound recording, dubbing and synchronisation, duplicating services, which was also in Blaricum, Netherlands.
In the course of his long career he has worked on more than 1000 television programmes and films and as such he has developed an all-round knowledge of the technical as well as the artistic, communicative, journalistic, commercial and juridical aspects of audiovisual media.

About LAW
The Little Archives of the World Foundation was founded in 1987 by a group of people who had worked for decades in film and television production and direction. They started collecting audiovisual material from many sources.
Today the LAW archives contain more then 8500 audiovisual items on all kind of formats. Vintage film and video as well as modern equipment are in use in the facility studio for transferring from different sources to digital media for conservation and educational use. The LAW foundation is also involved in special projects, classical music recordings, and provide a University graduate training place.

By archiving and conserving our 20th Century audiovisual heritage we contribute to historical image documentation for the future.

Related URLs
http://www.tape-online.net/index.html
http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/
http://www.memoriav.ch
http://www.oeaw.ac.at
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/presto/
http://www.little-archives.net
http://www.culture.org.mt/

The Little Reference Guide for Small Video Tape Collections
Also seen on the site www.little-archives.net/guide

Contact:
The Little Archives of the World Foundation
Archives and Facility Studio
Van Diemenstraat 410 - 412
1013 CR Amsterdam
The Netherlands - Europe

E-mail: info@little-archives.net
URL: www.little-archives.net