Processing the artifacts
The film digitization process, led by Amanda Smith, took nearly a year to bring to completion. Project assistants scanned all 150 episodes of The Faye Emerson Show and Faye Emerson’s Wonderful Town, as well as the entire 13-episode run of World of Giants, at UW-Madison using the WCFTR’s and Department of Communication Arts’ Lasergraphics ScanStation scanner. Over the past decade, the WCFTR has developed and refined our digital preservation workflow, a process which is still being finessed as we learn more and tackle new projects.