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Full article has a German resource for retrieving all formats apparently
and dealing with tape degradation
http://www.newscientist.com/article...-out-the-race-to-save-our-video-heritage.html

Wiped out: The race to save our video heritage

28 August 2013 by Sarah Everts
Magazine issue 2931. Subscribe and save

Pictures of spreads from New Scientist magazine

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GERD STERN, 84 years old, with sneakers, rings, khaki pants and wild
white hair, sports a bushy beard reminiscent of Allen Ginsberg in his
pomp. Then again, the two beat poets had a long history: they first met
in the late 1940s when they were residents at the same psychiatric
hospital in New York City.

As part of a collective called USCO – the Company of Us – Stern started
combining beat poetry with multimedia installations in the early 1960s.
A typical example might recreate the experience of an LSD trip using
slide projectors, oscilloscopes, flashing diffraction patterns, shouting
voices and sitar music.

It was to revive memories of those times that early last year Stern
found himself at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, bound for Germany.
In his ...
 
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