More than 20 years of creation, curation and stewardship of footage on a wide variety of analog, digital and electronic formats led to the Chemistry Productions curating a collection of entertainment content impressive enough to be placed into the U.S. Library of Congress Moving Image and Recorded Music Permanent Collection.
The Chemistry collection features more than 15,000 music videos alongside interviews, live footage, and the entire ManiaTV original content vault on Beta SP, 3/4″, Digital Video, and DVD. It was provided along with a complete working edit bay with all the legacy decks and equipment required to play and ingest audio and video footage from decades of music television and beyond.
After a painstaking two-year process from initial application through to the logistics of cross-country physical asset transport, the Chemistry Productions collection arrived at the Packard Campus of the Library of Congress in Culpeper, VA at the end of 2016. An extensive project of catagorization, digitization, migration, and integration work to preserve the collection is a years-long process that is now underway.
