Hi! I was thinking about becoming an archivist, hopefully with a bent toward audio/video preservation. Do you have any advice on that? Also, if you don't mind, what kind of equipment you use for your work? Many thanks.
My best advice to you is don't expect to be finding stuff constantly if you're coming into it for "lost media" or whatever. I focus on daytime TV stuff in the United States from before the 1980s which means I don't have as many "hits" as most people do in regards to finding stuff that is lost (my last big find, which was inarguably my biggest find, was in January of 2023, and even then it was only a five minute clip, but it's five minutes of color videotape footage of a game show called Concentration which was considered a holy grail-esque find considering the tapes have long been destroyed and all that's left outside of stuff that might exist in private collections or at UCLA's archive that we don't know about are black and white kinescopes and 16mm films. And then before then was something from 2021. And then before then? I think it was like 2012) but the things I have discovered and shared online have been things that meant a lot to me and mean a lot to the world of television history which makes me happy.
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