Fuji­film Cor­po­ra­tion has been awarded an Acad­emy Award (Sci­en­tific and Engi­neer­ing) by the Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences for the devel­op­ment of ETERNA-RDS, a black-and-white record­ing film designed for the long-term preser­va­tion and archiv­ing of motion pic­ture films.
 
The cer­e­mony will take place on Feb­ru­ary 11, local time, in Los Ange­les, USA.
 
ETERNA-RDS is able to record pri­mary colours sep­a­rately and store them as sta­ble black-and-white images with the pur­pose of pre­serv­ing motion pic­ture infor­ma­tion for a very long time, in excess of 150 years.

Fuji­film was highly com­mended for this sig­nif­i­cant step in pro­tect­ing the her­itage of the motion pic­ture indus­try which led to this Acad­emy Award. The film is already being used for the archival preser­va­tion of many Hol­ly­wood films.
 
In New Zealand ETERNA-RDS is being used by The NZ Film Archive, Weta Dig­i­tal and Park Road Post for the preser­va­tion of early New Zealand films includ­ing news­reels and fea­ture films.