MoMA Film Preservation Center: Nitrate Facility

Presented in conjunction with To Save and Project: The Seventh MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
October 24, 2009­-November 15, 2009
www.moma.org/vi...
Music: "Swanee" by Al Jolson. Courtesy of the Free Music Archive. For more information please visit ww.freemusicarchive.org
Film : "Facts about Film". The Atlanta Board of Education and the International Film Bureau present Facts about Film. Produced by Phototronics, Inc. For more information please visit www.archive.org
© 2009 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

[@Prodigious1One]

This place looks cool and makes me interested in archives.

[@PVid88]

I love this stuff.

[@Tenfresh]

Fascinating!

[@PatrickSchabus]

superb!

[@jordandors]

Can you visit

[@schwartzdaniel5267]

In Germany after explosion of a federal archive storage chamber it is forbidden to store celluloid films for a long time. Only the Federal Archives have a license to store celluloid films for copy in larger quantities in a new build special bunker facility .
After the successful copy (digital or safety-analog) of celluloid films, films must be destroyd in a special disposal facility for explosives. In Germany over 70000 rolls of this highly unstable and explosive material were disposed after the explosion of a federal archive storage chamber .Many films, are also disposed of without copying them.

[@Almenhorst]

nawaros brought me here

[@brisen245]

Anyone else come here from inglorious bastards