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retired projects because normal people also like to watch/enjoy something they’re familiar/comfortable with. In addition, if we didn’t catch a couple of episodes of Orange is the New Black or How It Ends when they first appeared on Netflix, they’re new to us! The Netflix member noted that they have a rigorous archiving program similar to the practices followed by Warner, Disney and others for the growing volume of global films/shows they develop and acquire. Everything (scripts, RAW content, outtakes, versions and final cuts) is saved to a virgin storage drives in special temperature, humidity-controlled facilities. The content is verified/validated every three years; and every 10 years, all of the work is written to a new drive. All of the retired shows/films are stored in a special facility with state-of-the-art fire suppression, rigorous temperature/humidity control and “aggressive” security monitoring. Why 10 years? “We’re like every smart content owner,” he said. “We’ll save the original, but we’ll also update and upgrade the content to the newest viewing technologies as well as with scene and script changes that are more in line with and acceptable by current viewers so they can discover old is really new, different." “And we can do this for generations because good video stories and nostalgia never run out of style, even if it must be ‘tweaked’ for today,” he added. Unfortunately, 90 percent of all American silent films made before 1929 and 50 percent of American sound films made before 1950 have been lost. Globally, the loss of the industry’s rich heritage is probably the same and is impossible to recreate, recapture. It’s simply … gone! Fortunately, the industry has gotten smart in its old age; even if some of the content previously produced is difficult, uncomfortable, even hurtful to watch today. For example, director David Zucker was once asked if he could produce his iconic film Airplane or the series Naked Gun today. He said he could, but it wouldn’t be funny given today’s global sensitivities. The same would be true of Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles and hundreds of other films/shows around the world that are now deemed inappropriate, even when content warnings are added. Heck, there are scenes in the 2016 film Hidden Figures that make us silently say “WTF.” Despite that, films and shows shouldn’t be seen just to be entertained.