The SAFE project confirms its commitment to preserving non-theatrical Italian film heritage by including Cinescatti – Lab 80 film archive as a fourth environmental monitoring case study. Following the monitoring activities in the other partner archives (Cineteca dello Stretto, MediaLab, and Fondazione Home Movies), the project has extended the periodical measurement of temperature and relative humidity to Cinescatti – Lab80 film deposit. Furthermore, a monitoring of the vinegar syndrome has been done on a collection sample to analyze the velocity and the decaying patterns of acetate based materials. The analysis of collected data will allow us to identify criticalities to be solved to provide a better environment in the long term, and will help the SAFE project to produce guidelines for other archives interested in monitoring their collections.
