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▲ In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online(filmstories.co.uk)
133 points by rdmuser 13 hours ago | 14 comments

https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/

▲Ylano an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There's something both wonderful and slightly terrifying about decades of film history being preserved because one person at an auction happened to notice a folder full of old CD-ROMs

▲DocTomoe 3 minutes ago | parent [-]

Also, physical media.

I'd expect these kinds of things to wane now that we do anything in a cloud and data's gone the moment the credit card says nyet.

▲drewbeck 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tippett Studios or Phil’s name should probably be in the title here to give this the audience it deserves. He’s a legend and many many nerds will know his name.

▲Xenoamorphous 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Due to AI I've been thinking a lot lately about his "I've just become extinct" quote.

▲jasonjayr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah yes, the infamous Dinosaur Supervisor!

https://www.cbr.com/jurassic-park-phil-tippett-dinosaur-supe...

▲Barbing 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Aww I love that joke! (He had one job!)

▲Barbing 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anonymous hero rescues 90GB of content from CD binder spotted at auction. Beautiful.

▲soltanov 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hosting 90GB on Internet Archive is step one. Mirroring the torrents is step two, before copyright lawyers notice the auction bypass. Seed it while it exists.

▲justnoice 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Huge thanks to him. It’s a real shame that so much material in this world, for one reason or another, will never see the light of day.

▲hizlikovboy27 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is great to see. Losing all that material to private collections would have been a shame. thanks to everyone who helped preserve and share it.

▲stavros 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This has Textfiles vibes.

EDIT: Yep: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/cd-rom?search=tippet

▲tniemi 16 minutes ago | parent [-]

Thank you for the link!

It is strange to see how low-poly the old models were: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/46859/!!-starship-troo...

▲vincengomes 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Direct Link to the digital archive at Internet Archive -

https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/

▲dang 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks! Added to toptext above.