“This is a reel of film that is deteriorated and brittle. It will never be brought back to life.”At the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI), Tony Lan (藍祖蔚), the institute’s chair, holds a canister from a collection of over 18,000 Taiwanese movies aloft, to let visiting lawmakers grasp the race against time faced to find a new home for the institute’s film archive center.
Source: Taiwan film preservationists face battle against time & space – Focus Taiwan