True Conservation at its Finest

[erik1925]

These videos I came across a year or more ago, but wanted to post them here as they give the true "nuts and bolts" about conserving a work on paper. The clips are made via the Smithsonian and I think they give valuable insight into how any work on paper (broadside, poster or other documents) could be handled, in this kind of situation.

Plus, I personally find them very interesting on a teaching level, but that's just me. 

Part 1
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/DeP5KPEcKfY" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/DeP5KPEcKfY</a>


Part 2
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/O0cokmKzwtk" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/O0cokmKzwtk</a>


Even Part 3, the encapsulation process, was interesting to watch, since, a poster certainly could be handled this way (it isnt laminated) and is another way to present and display a poster, with it protected from damage or rough handling.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/OfzQewjyO6o" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/OfzQewjyO6o</a>

[martinc]

There's the old saying "like watching paint dry" but maybe I like watching paint because I did watch them all the way through. Nothing against any of the videos you can see showing film poster restorers doing their thing but it does demonstrate how museum restoration is at a different level by comparison in most cases.

A very esoteric choice of broadside: "The Post Office Philatelic Car Display" - and I thought that I had some obscure titles in my collection!   

[Charlie]

These are great, I posted them four years ago which is probably when you came across them.   You sort of dismissed them st the time.  I'm glad they strike you as valuable now...

http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,5178.msg95945.html#msg95945

[Neo]

Great videos.  These folks at the Smithsonian appear to be at the top of the game.  A lot of great info., and excellent attention to detail.  They can linen back my 5 star posters any day!

[erik1925]

Great videos.  These folks at the Smithsonian appear to be at the top of the game.  A lot of great info., and excellent attention to detail.  They can linen back my 5 star posters any day!

Plus it's interesting to see the process from start to finish, as well as listening to her commentary along each step of the way. When you figure this process would be done to a movie poster, too, were they handling one.

[erik1925]

Another related clip that youtube offered as suggested watching. Good stuff here, too: 

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/dcb3JwPjDjA" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/dcb3JwPjDjA</a>