We have recently begun offering audio and video preservation and restoration services. Our partner facility, Mercer Media has collected an impressive array of archaic audio and video decks, tape cleaning and signal processing equipment to evaluate and clean tapes.

Broadway Video, another of Standby’s participating facilities, provides clients with access to AVID Symphony and Discreet Systems Smoke, post-production services that can be used to restore damaged video programs. Through Standby, our private sector partners will offer artists and non-profits affordable rates for archival services.

This new focus on restoration and preservation forwards Standby’s mission by assisting us in preserving the type of video work that our program was instrumental in creating.

Some of the projects we have already helped restore include:

The Kitchen’s 1978 Benefit Concert
Various works for the Kurt Weill Foundation
Tony Oursler’s “Phillis”
Ken Jacobs’ “Star Spangled to Death”
David Wojnarowicz’s “Where Evil Dwells”
Janis Joplin at Woodstock
President Eisenhower at the Riverside Church

Among the formats we have available are:

1/2” open reel (EIAJ and non-EIAJ), 1” SMPTE C, 1” IVC, 3/4” U-matic, 1/2” VHS and S-VHS, and 1/4” audio tape (2 and 4 track).

We are interested in acquiring additional decks and equipment for this project. If anyone has any equipment they are looking to get rid of please contact us. Your donation will be tax deductible.