National Archives and Records Service film-vault fire at Suitland, Md. : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, June 19 and 21, 1979 (1979)

Record Details:

Title:
National Archives and Records Service film-vault fire at Suitland, Md. : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, June 19 and 21, 1979
Date:
1979
Publisher:
Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Volume:
National Archives and Records Service film-vault fire at Suitland, Md. : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, June 19 and 21, 1979
Leaf #:
000194
Language:
English
Subjects:
Washington National Records Center. Building A, Motion picture film collections
Collection:
Books and Government & Law
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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182 Our goal is to collect the history of the American motion picture. The fact that a certain portion of it is on nitrate stock is simply a fact with which we must cope. And the nitrate film we now accept from donors is film we were not able to accept at the time of original registration. Thus the nitrate duplication program has the mission of salvaging a treasury of social and political history. Begun in the late 1950's, relying at first on outside laboratories, the program entered a new and vigorous phase in 1970 with the establishment of our own duplicating laboratory. In the present decade we have converted more than some 30 million feet of nitrate to safety film, adding thousands of titles to our usable collection, international in scope, and representing every decade of film history. The laboratory has become the main force in our nitrate program. In recent years it has reached an output of 4-6 million feet per year. We intend to relocate the laboratory in 1980, and we hope to substantially increase production. We are resolved to complete our entire nitrate program during the coming decade, so that before 1990 we will neither store nor duplicate nitrate film. We have 70 million feet of nitrate film in our vaults awaiting convers ion. The historic importance of nitrate preservation is exemplified by numerous elements in our collection. The important Theodore Roosevelt Collection, comprising some 380 titles, throws light on the earliest days