To preserve, conserve, digitize and restore films and ancillary material, the NFHM was setup by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. As of June 2019, the NFHM has completed assessment of the condition of nearly 1.32 lakh film reels and conservation work of the same is underway. These reels will soon be digitized.
The objectives of NFHM include assessing the film conditions and to ascertain the left over life of films, preventive conservation of 1,32,000 film reels, 2k/4k picture and sound restoration of 1086 landmark feature films and 1152 short films; recording of new picture and sound inter-negatives of each film, digitization of 1160 feature film and 1660 short films, construction of Archival and Preservation facilities with global standards, Training and Capacity building programmes in the field of preservation facilities with global standards, training and capacity building programmes in the field of preservation and film archiving in co-ordination with international agencies.
The Mission also aims at IT solution for effective implementation of NFHM by creation of comprehensive Web-based end to end IT management solution that will keep track of all aspects of the functioning of the mission.
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