poita said:

Part of the problem here is that a raw scan of a single film is over 20TB, i.e. over $700 worth of HDDs. Not easy to share or distribute.

"Raw" doesn't necessarily mean "uncompressed", but more like "unprocessed"...

Your 8mm scan samples were perfect examples... they were compressed H.264 clips at 1920 pixels width, so they had more resolution to work with before squeezing it down to (probably sufficient for 8mm) 720p. People would be absolutely satisfied if TN1 released their scan(s) as something like that. In times of 25GB MKVs being shared without much hassle, no one would mind 100GB worth of high-bitrate raw scans.