在这部数电影的人纪录片片中,电影，一项百年前兴起的新科技，没人料到纪录它的材料——胶卷，会在这个时代濒临绝种，被数位潮流给取代。胶卷，在温度18-22度与溼度55度的环境下尚能生存6、70年，但当它暴露在缺乏恒温恒湿的环境里胶卷随时可能开始发酸，影像随之裂解、溶出，而记载在上面的一切记忆也就无法再被唤醒。
台湾有一群人，正参与在这场时间竞赛中，他们隐身于「新加坡工业园区」的片库，这裡一万七千多部的胶卷与百万件的电影文物，成为他们的精神粮食，他们日复一日的在裡头穿梭，带著疑问、带著学习、带著信念。他们在做的，是唤醒这些长年被忽略的胶卷，进而拼凑出那些不复存在的社会氛围和遥远的生活样貌。而这些片库时光，就是电影典藏与胶卷修复者们的日常。
Some movie superheroes save movies. They lug dollies of film reels up and down elevators. They crack open canisters adhered through decades of chemical synthesis. They have the uncanny nose for the smell of vinegar - that olfactory sign of expiration lurking beneath the celluloid corner. They are film archivists, protectors of cultural legacies. But as depicted in ARCHIVING TIME, which follows preservationists and restorationists at the Taiwan Film Institute, they are also workers of physical agility, laser-quick thinking, and historical conscience, poring through decades-old 16mm and 35mm reels. Lu Yuan-chi's documentary follows select reels, rescued from humid Hong Kong storage, as they go through the archive's labyrinth of celluloid makeover magic. From inspection and cleaning, to projection and scanning, to the painstaking process of removing every speck and pop, these films sparkle anew with 21st century light. Very few of the films are classics by auteurs like King Hu or Lee Hsing. Most are faintly-remembered features screened occasionally at a village fair, or newsreels produced by a nationalist government, or curios bearing titles like \"The Infertility Girl\" or \"Monkeys Will Be Monkeys.\" Some will be restored for future events and future scholarship. Some, unfortunately, arrive D.O.A. Through it all, our heroes - like archive veteran Allen Chung or digital ace Chang Yi-chen - press on with a dispassionate determination and a modest feeling of accomplishment. This is, to put it plainly, thankless work. But in capturing the mundane churn of mouse clicks, celluloid surgery, and box lunches, ARCHIVING TIME offers the deepest gratitude.
致渺小卻偉大的人！。电影文化传承。修复电影的手艺人。播放的英文是play，日文是再生。修复手法还可以更好。
