Link to a story about our new friend and Las Crucenite Nan Rubin, about Nan’s work and achievements with digital archiving and related issues and challenges with the Library of Congress, WNET, and various other media archival circumstances.
Note there’s several more interesting links within the story including one to an interview with Nan. Kudos to Margot for the heads up.
Perhaps ironically, the video is archived online in the old video and audio format “Real Media” (.rm)…… files that used to be played by the “Real Media Player”, one of the pioneers of online video serving.
VLC will play it, but one wonders how much video was served and is still served in a format that AFAIK is fading fast, or possibly almost fully gone? Real.com is now RealPlayer Cloud. Available as a way to serve one’s videos via a channel on Roku…