上周，几位著名导演游说好莱坞电影公司与这家著名的美国公司达成协议，柯达将在不久的将来继续**电影胶片。但是，当数字技术每年都在便利性和质量上取得重大进步时，为什么电影首先值得保存呢？传奇的出租车司机和愤怒的公牛导演马丁斯科塞斯有几个答案。

斯科塞斯本人曾与《华尔街之狼》一起使用过数码相机，他发表了一份充满**的声明，坚决支持保存电影，指出电影“更丰富的视觉调色板”、可靠的档案属性，以及它在电影史上的重要作用。”他问道：“有人会梦想告诉年轻艺术家扔掉他们的颜料和画布，因为ipad更容易携带。”当然不是。”

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We have many names for what we do — cinema, movies, motion pictures. And... film. We're called directors, but more often we're called filmmakers. Filmmakers. I'm not suggesting that we ignore the obvious: HD isn't coming, it's here. The advantages are numerous: the cameras are lighter, it's much easier to shoot at night, we have many more means at our disposal for altering and perfecting our images. And, the cameras are more affordable: films really can be made now for very little money. Even those of us still shooting on film finish in HD, and our movies are projected in HD. So, we could easily agree that the future is here, that film is cumbersome and imperfect and difficult to transport and prone to wear and decay, and that it's time to forget the past and say goodbye — really, that could be easily done. Too easily.

It seems like we're always being reminded that film is, after all, a business. But film is also an art form, and young people who are driven to make films should have access to the tools and materials that were the building blocks of that art form. Would anyone dream of telling young artists to throw away their paints and canvases because iPads are so much easier to carry? Of course not. In the history of motion pictures, only a minuscule percentage of the works comprising our art form was not shot on film. Everything we do in HD is an effort to recreate the look of film. Film, even now, offers a richer visual palette than HD. And, we have to remember that film is still the best and only time-proven way to preserve movies. We have no assurance that digital informaton will last, but we know that film will, if properly stored and cared for.

Our industry — our filmmakers — rallied behind Kodak because we knew that we couldn't afford to lose them, the way we've lost so many other film stocks. This news is a positive step towards preserving film, the art form we love.