Nitrate Seizure - The ephemeral history of cinema

The publication that I created, “NITRATE SEIZURE: The ephemeral history of cinema”, informs on the issue of film preservation. It was discovered that films disappear as the decades pass because of their fragile nature. Therefore, archivists are struggling to prevent cinema heritage from turning into dust. The film stock used until about 1950's proved to be combustible and perishable. Even though technology changed enormously, the “safety” acetate film stock used nowadays has a life-span of only 400 years and was discovered to suffer from the “vinegar syndrome”-a chemical degradation.