Don't most studios use climates with hardly any change for storing the original master copies. Such as deep underground salt mines where humidity and temperature barely fluctuate.
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Inferno in Los Angeles is Burning Down Universal Studios.
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Don't most studios use climates with hardly any change for storing the original master copies. Such as deep underground salt mines where humidity and temperature barely fluctuate.
I happen to live kind of near by, near enough that I been there way to many times.
Yes and no. A major part of the theme park is a tour of the back lot on a tram. And some, (well in later years a much of) the back lot sound stages were converted to be theme park atractions. In fact much of the back lot has been re-built just for the tram ride tour. For example the King Kong thing was a kind of automated show made just for the tram ride. the show had nothing to do with the movie. So "theme park" and "back lot" are kind of mixed, or were kind of mixed. Years ago in the 50's and before they'd be continously shooting several movies on the back lot but today few few are shot there and if so only a few scenes so Universal has been making the backl lot more and more into a theme park. What shooting they do now is mostly for television and mostly indoors in those huge sound stages.
Ages ago the Universal backlot tour was a real tour of where they actually made movies and you got off the tram and walked on real sets and could ask questions of the tour guide now the "tour" has become a theme park ride.
I cn understand the fire. The place the _old_ and everything is made with old dry exposed wood
On the local news here, I heard that about 95% of the films destroyed were replacable, because they weren't masters. Of course, they still lost a few masters, but it's not nearly as bad as it could have been.
I also heard they started giving tours of the destroyed lot as soon as they were allowed to by the fire department.
I also heard they started giving tours of the destroyed lot as soon as they were allowed to by the fire department.
... no doubt they will turn this into a film.... at least it will be the first that's not a sequel or a remake of another film
Blockbuster movies about fire have already been done. There's Backdraft (1991) and Irwin Allen's classic, The Towering Inferno (1974). Besides, New York Street burned previously (20 years ago), so in a way it would be a remake of another fire.
Film vaults, specifically, are refrigerated. The explosion at the video vault was described as coming from a propane tank, so it's likely that at least part of the vault had some level of climate control; it just wouldn't need to be as aggressive since video is not as sensitive as film over time (digital vs. emulsion-based).
