Prior Events
What: AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) Annual Conference 2025 When: December 3 - 5 Where: Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, MD 21202 USA Registration: https://amiaconference.net/
DFT is thrilled to participate in AMIA 2025, a premier industry gathering for audiovisual archiving and preservation professionals. Visit our team at Booth #200 to discover how DFT's state-of-the-art preservation workflows and innovative digitization solutions are helping to protect audiovisual heritage for generations to come. We’re excited for insightful discussions, fresh partnerships, and the opportunity to learn about your digitization challanges. Michael Schneider and Alexander Herz look forward to connecting with you there.
Mark your calendar: Thursday, December 4th, 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm DFT — together with the renowned Cinecittà Film Studio and Archive in Rome (Italy) — will present a recently completed project in a conference session titled “Too Fragile to Scan?”
In this session, we will showcase a project recently carried out by the Archivio Luce within Cinecittà, which has significantly pushed the boundaries of what is technically possible within the archive'e digitization efforts. Archivio Luce digitized several extensively damaged film reels including a 35mm print of an animated film released in 1938.
DFT supported this project with its Polar HQ film scanner, which features a specially designed film gate system featuring a tailored skid and pressure plate for the precise handling of fragile and damaged stock.
For DFT, this achievement represents a proud moment – one that underscores how advancements in film scanning technology can ease the demanding work of film archives. With the Polar HQ, DFT’s dedicated development team has transformed the challenges raised by film archivists into a concrete solution delivering an advanced tool that enables the digitization of film once considered unscannable.