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Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation

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1996
Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation, by Jim Hubbard, with assistance from Mona Jimenez, is published by Media Alliance.
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"Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/meeting-challenges-video-preservation.

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