Word: microfilms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Microfilm recording, latest process for copying rare manuscripts, is being used by Widener Library in the reproducing of 37 foreign newspapers. The project has been made possible by a revolving Rockefeller Foundation fund...
London's famous "Times" has its own microfilm recording process. The films, which reproduce 800 pages of newsprint each, will be invaluable for safe-keeping of newspapers...
...microfilming is being done by the Recodak Co. of the Eastman Kodak Co. A microfilm reproduction of the New York "Herald Tribune...
Images on ordinary transparent cellulose film are projected on a screen by a light behind the film. Images on non-transparent metal alloy film are projected by reflection from a light in front of the film. Major potentialities of metal alloy film outside the entertainment industry: mapmaking, microfilm reproductions of checks and documents, historical records for which cellulose film, which lasts only about 25 years, is unsatisfactory...
...TIME & LIFE guys get on together? TIME, Oct. 3 reports the official burial of Westinghouse's Time Capsule to be opened in 5,000 years, which includes a copy of TIME on microfilm. LIFE, Oct. 10 reports LIFE on microfilm in the Westinghouse Time Capsule. Neither story mentions the sister publication. Or are they illegitimate sisters...