About

Filmic Technologies' mission is to enable access to vast amounts of film through the mass media migration, allowing content holders to quickly and easily assess their collections.

People have been digitizing their audio-visual content for decades, but despite all that time, money, and effort, very little has actually been digitized. 

It is estimated that there is more than a billion feet of film lying undigitized in archives around the world. Even when stored under the best possible conditions, the film deteriorates over time and that means that our time is limited. With so much film left to be digitized, we need to work efficiently.

This leads us to our fundamental problem: How do we digitize all content as quickly and inexpensively as possible so we can find out what we have while it is still there? Solution: digitize everything. 

Mass digitization is about digitizing as much as we can, as fast as we can. The Filmic Technologies digitization system is designed to update your workflow and make it possible to quickly and easily have a copy of everything in your collection preserved in the digital record, including raw scan photographs, metadata, and detailed condition reports about each film.

Filmic Technologies was founded in 2017. A prototype of the company’s film digitization system was shown to film archivists and librarians at the 2016 Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) annual conference in Portland, Oregon. This prototype machine was designed for use with 35mm film, but based upon comments received from the conference participants, it was decided to develop a 16mm production version first. 

A 16mm prototype version of the machine was brought to the 2019 AMIA conference in Baltimore, where it successfully digitized a number of films brought by the attendees. Following some modifications, the Ringling Museum became a beta test site during the summer of 2021 and digitized their entire 16mm collection. As a result of the success at the conference and the Ringling, the company management approved the manufacture of 12 production machines.

In 2022, Filmic Tech began shipping their mass digitization machine, EZ16. EZ16 is a first of its kind film inspection/mass digitization self-contained system that not only digitally scans the contents contained on 16mm and 8mm motion picture films, but also evaluates and reports on the physical condition of the film.