Formats

ACMI Collection

Object On display
Photograph by Egmont Contreras

The Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab handles a wide range of media formats. Much of our collection is contained on 16mm film and domestic videotape formats but we also handle 35mm, 9.5mm and 8mm film, early commercial video formats such as 2” and 1” tape, various other commercial and semi-professional videotapes, born digital works on hard drives, games cartridges, thumb drives and audio formats. Preserving such a wide variety means we must also maintain the legacy equipment associated with each format.

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Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

On display until

16 February 2031

ACMI: Gallery 1

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

P184766

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Foyer → Entry → FSF-03. MPL exterior

Object Types

3D Object

Diorama

Exhibition Prop

Collected

333 times

Please note: this archive is an ongoing body of work. Sometimes the credit information (director, year etc) isn’t available so these fields may be left blank; we are progressively filling these in with further research.

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