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Preservation copy
A film copy of a title, whether image or sound, which is primarily used only to make duping material. Essentially it should also be the most perfect of the copies, most probably that closest to the original if it is not already the original.
With sound tracks, the preservation copy should be a full coat magnetic recording and the duping copy a photographic sound recording, but quite often our preservation copy may have to be a photographic sound recording.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.