• Doug Holland
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    117 months ago

    Maybe not enough people around the city know about Scarecrow, and what an amazing archive it is. Scarecrow is where you can go when the movie you’re looking for isn’t streaming, isn’t available anywhere else. Access to the history of the movies is what they offer, with maybe more movies in their collection than not.

    It’s not frickin’ Blockbuster, it’s important. Anyone who loves movies and has some money should pitch in. SIFF should pitch in; they’d be a good match.

    • @SkyezOpen
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      17 months ago

      Why not like… Digitize and set up torrents? I promise there’s data hoarders out there that will would love an archive like that.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        47 months ago

        It would be an absurdly vast undertaking for a too-little known nonprofit

        • @SkyezOpen
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          07 months ago

          They’re trying to raise 1.8 mil to keep a single blockbuster open. Physical media isn’t profitable anymore. Though I guess they’re trying to preserve that rather than the movies themselves.

          • @Gradually_Adjusting
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            47 months ago

            Have you been to scarecrow? Every time I go, I get a vivid sense of the scope of cinema as an art form. It’s humbling and tantalising, like I’m crawling through a dragons hoard looking for just the right treasure.

            You wouldn’t call it “a blockbuster” if you’d been there.

            • @SkyezOpen
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              07 months ago

              I appreciate that it’s not literally like a blockbuster, but they’re running a giant physical media rental archive. The only ones that can really participate are locals, and it’s up to the locals to prop them up. Now if they solicited donations to digitize and make available their collection for archival purposes? That’d turn heads.

              • @Gradually_Adjusting
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                7 months ago

                I’m not against digitisation and preservation, but their collection is by no means solely in the realm of public domain works. They keep current, and cast a wide net. Getting digital streaming rights to everything they’ve got would be a legal-logistical nightmare even for a startup with billions in venture capital.