sad but not surprising. Time and time again we filipinos have shown that we do not care about our history. We don't learn from our past. That's why we are in the state that we are in now, we never learn from our past so wer'e doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over and over again.
True, but in terms of film history, we're not alone. I think France was the only that did a consistent job of preserving their cinematic legacy. Hollywood, Bollywood, much of Southeast Asia, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Italy, even Japan and China have done little to save film artifacts, and only recently have started cataloging and preserving their films (although the situation is not as bad as it is in the Philippines, early Hollywood films for example, as much as 50 per cent of those made before the 40s, are either lost or irrecoverably damaged). It's not only that we as Filipinos don't care about our past, but in general no one cares about the past. Film, across the board, was treated as a commodity, and such, was discarded just like any other commodity. It's true that the situation is really bad in the Philippines, but to say that its people is singular in their carelessness is simply another form of postcolonial self-hate and deprecation--the worse kind of cultural amnesia.