It could make a good movie. A mysterious building on the site of a former nuclear bunker for which there are no signs or even opportunities to see it from the road. Inside will be state-owned artefacts as precious as they are dangerous.But this is no pitch. This is the nation's new £12m Master Film Store and is considered one of the most important buildings for the preservation of British film ever built.The store has been built on a nuclear bunker site deep in the Warwickshire countryside and will be capable of holding more than 450,000 cans of the nation's film – everything from Hitchcock to Ealing to Carry On.Robin Baker, head curator of the BFI national archive, said it was an important moment for Britain's film heritage. "I can think of nothing – in fact there is nothing – as transformative for the safety of the national collection as this."He said it felt as though he would be able to do his job as well as he should for the first time. "However much you might be an advocate for the films, love them and try to make them accessible, you knew you couldn't do the best for them in terms of their long-term survival."The problem with so much early film is that it is on nitrate, which is fragile and unstable, and in the wrong conditions will deteriorate. Nitrate is also highly flammable and when it does go up there is no chance of extinguishing it.That has led to a facility for which refrigeration engineers have been as important as architects, with the film cans kept at a stable temperature of -5C (23F) at 35% relative humidity.For years it was thought that copying the film was the only way to deal with the problems of nitrate and the acetate that replaced it, but there is just too much of it to do that. Digitisation is also extremely expensive.
I think Malaysia should make the same action to store our history, because Malaysian historical facts is very importance. By doing this actually we can preserve our history from be exchange In the future. Thus, in other to keep our history from be exchange, we have to prepare an backup storages to keep Malaysian history and keep it in safety condition.
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