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FAREWELL TO BRAZILSilence and sun live in the courtyardOf the Carmelite Convent. The light clings at the painted faades In the streets beyond its walls. Like lazy cats, men and women drift From shade to shade - Time knows no hours, no years. At the end of a long corridor, in the vestry We see a heavy table on turned legs: They sat at it when they surrendered, Sweating Dutch to polished Portuguese. Salvador da Bahia THE PRESIDENT'S CORNERMy fellow members!The venue in September is Washington D.C. Do not forget the month, the date and the place; Washington D.C., USA. I would appreciate to meet you all "over there". "... East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet..." Rudyard Kipling wrote in "The Ballad of East and West". We have to prove again that this poem‚s negative attitude must not come true. FIAT/IFTA is a community of people from different cultures and societies with a common goal to work together in the field of television and film and sound development. National meetings within your own country are of course important. Anyway I would suggest that you all bring your friends with you to the FIAT/IFTA conferences and meetings and organize a national meeting within FIAT/IFTA. "...East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet..." Do what you can to make his words and attitude a policy of the past. The venue is Washington D.C. And here the technology of the West will meet the challenge of the East: USA and Europe in a friendly and open competition in the field of new technology, preservation of film and sound and videotapes. An exchange of information to put you in a better situation later on when you are fighting with your budget and councils and managers to make some progress in your work. "...US is ten years ahead of Europe in the development of CD-ROM, digital
transmitter technology and the use of computers..."; an unofficial source
made this statement recently. True or not true? Come and see for yourself.
Make your own judgement. "... When I told you some years ago about the
digital technology and the rapid change to digital, you all laugh...";
a statement made by the new director of the Technical Department of the Norwegian
Broadcasting Corporation Arild Hellgren to television technicians. And the
future for trasnmission of television is interesting he said to the same audience
after a visit to the technical exhibition in Las Vegas called "NAB 95". The future poems might be about EAST/WEST and the common interest in making the right decision about the future. The archives will face a new challenge in the future: How to store and reuse materials made on compressed data and transmitted on compressed data at qualities that differ from transmission standard to viewing standard. But what about me - I am running an archive where we have just made the radical change from U-Matic HB into Betacam SP? We have not forgotten you. The past and the present: FIAT/IFTA can "... not look back in anger..." - not rejectning the present problems for archives around the world. We cannot just say as a famous person said in the film "Gone With the Wind": "... Frankly, my dear, I don‚t give a damn..." -Rhett Butler‚s statement. My fellow members: See you in September in Washington, D.C.
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