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Magazine Scanning: The British Palestine Police Association (BPPA)

A very interesting historical order that we are preparing, is a vast collection of The British Palestine Police Association (BPPA) newsletters and magazines, which are being converted to PDF with Optical Character Recognition, to support their valuable and historical archives. If we can support you with your archives, please do contact cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com http://britishpalestinepolice.org.uk/intro.html The British Palestine Police Association (BPPA) came into being on February l st   2014, the day after the Palestine Police Old Comrades Association (PPOCA) disbanded. The BPPA was established with funds provided by PPOCA, to continue those services that had previously been provided by PPOCA, except for those already entrusted to SSAFA and St Antony's College, Oxford. Those services are: To enable surviving Palestine Police Old Comrades members and their families to keep in touch. To ensure, through collaboration with the CWGC, and if necessary other agencies, that the...

Digitisation of Scrapbooks for the Famous Thoroughbred Mill Reef

We are currently about to work on a very interesting order from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia, USA who are working on a film and project to commemoriate Mill Reef, one of Paul Mellon's, their founder's husbands famous thoroughbreds, Mill Reef, winning horse of the year in 1971.   The wife of Mill Reef's UK trainer, made wonderful scrapbooks, filled with photographs and newspaper clippings that we have been commissioned to digitise to high quality Archival TIFF files, with our archival processing applied. If we can support you with your archival digitisation projects, please do not hestiate to contact us:  cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Reef Mill Reef  (1968–1986) was a Champion  Thoroughbred   racehorse  and  sire . He was bred in the  United States  but was trained in the  United Kingdom  throughout his racing career which lasted from 1970 to 1972. Mill Reef won twelve of h...

Audio-Visual Video Tape Digitisation Services in Oxford

Our studio extensivel work with production and heritage companies preparing video tapes to include HDCam, D1 & 2, HI8 and Betcam tapes to Pro-Res digital files or 10-bit uncompressed archive files. One particular project requires both digitisation and transcoding to several digital outputs, firstly separating section of individual scenes, prepare Pro-Res sections and then provide MPEG4 vewing files before outputing to client hard drives. This is a typical order for our company, and one using our AWS boxes can be prepared within client time frames. For technical support or a quote for your project, please call 01865 457000 or e-mail cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com . Oxford Duplication provides professional audiovisual video and audio digitising services for production houses, archive collections, heritage sites, supporting archive and conversion of your titles. Our audiovisual services offer standard definition conversion, to include high definition up-scaling. With transparent...