Sorry for this being a short one, but I just wanted to mention that starting last summer, the British Film Institute began its process of restoring Alfred Hitchcock's surviving silent films. They have committed a substantial amount of resources into the project, and when its all over, the collection should be marvelous.
What was also neat is that the BFI has demonstrated their interest in these films being seen by as wide an audience as possible by streaming the restored films on special occasions. As a public institution, the BFI serves the nation at large, and with these films long in the public domain and released on video to varying degrees of quality, it's great that a government institution is preserving as crucial part of its nation's heritage as so many of the more expected treasures like a first folio of shakespeare.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/restoring-hitchcock-1-how-film-restoration-begins
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