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The article said it was in the George Eastman Museum. The site has a virtual tour at https://www.eastman.org/virtual-tours https://www.eastman.org/virtual-tours
by eesmith 3y ago
The article said it was in the George Eastman Museum. The site has a virtual tour at https://www.eastman.org/virtual-tours https://www.eastman.org/virtual-tours which includes a link to the "Technology Vault", at https://goo.gl/maps/CXX9qDt7JemuASss5 https://goo.gl/maps/CXX9qDt7JemuASss5 .
It uses Google Maps Street View to move around inside the vault.
EDIT: having gone through it, that vault appears to contain machines - "technology". I didn't see anything which looked like a large film storage area, much less one for nitrate films.
Ah-ha! The 2020 report at https://www.eastman.org/sites/default/files/GEM_AnnualReport_2020_v2.pdf https://www.eastman.org/sites/default/files/GEM_AnnualReport... mentions they had a "A Tour of the Nitrate Vault".
Using '"Rochester film museum" Nitrate Vault' as my search terms I found the article "Rochester's best kept secret: A nitrate film collection" at https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2016/04/25/rare-nitrate-film-housed-rochester/83149750/ https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2016/04... with several images in the interesting story, with details like "Only three other facilities in the U.S. can legally store this volatile film stock" and "Every five years staff goes through 20,000 reels to make sure they are not decomposing", and the quote “Because of the great amount of silver content in the emulsion, nitrate films have dark, rich blacks, and more detailed gradation. The sharpness of the edges are so crisp and there’s so much depth, it’s almost like 3-D.”
More images via DDG image search: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Rochester+film+museum%22+Nitrate+Vault&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Rochester+film+museum%22...
- nukeman 3y agoI wonder what the other three places are that store nitrate film? I would guess the National Archives and some facility in Southern California. Where else though?
- eesmith 3y agoI found five others in the US: UCLA Film and Television Archive in Santa Clarita, with 120 vaults - https://www.dailynews.com/2019/08/12/uclas-film-television-archive-has-a-classical-yet-state-of-the-art-home-at-the-stoa-in-santa-clarita/ https://www.dailynews.com/2019/08/12/uclas-film-television-a... PRO-TEK’s nitrate film services, "PRO-TEK is one of the few places left in the world that manages nitrate film vaults for clients. The nitrate vaults are located several miles away from our Burbank campus." - https://protekvaults.com/blog/nitrate-film-preservation/ https://protekvaults.com/blog/nitrate-film-preservation/ The notes about one of the nitrate shows at https://www.cinematary.com/writing/2019/5/9/2019-nitrate-picture-show https://www.cinematary.com/writing/2019/5/9/2019-nitrate-pic... says: > Putting this festival on requires a great deal of inter-archival cooperation--prints were sourced from across the United States (the Big Five archives for nitrate are the Academy, UCLA, MoMa, the Library of Congress, and the Eastman itself) and from international archives, notably the Swedish Film Institute (supplied Strandhugg), KAVI in Helsinki (supplied Ihmiset suviyössä), and the Austrian Film Museum (supplied The Nevadan) Using those as search terms: The Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center at Wright-Patterson AFB. "Today, under the stewardship of M/B/RS, the nitrate film holdings, dating from the 1890's through 1950, exceed 100 million feet." - https://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/mpcc.html https://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/mpcc.html I verified that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nitrate film, because https://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/iron-mountain-collection https://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/iron-mountai... lists some of them, but I wasn't able to figure out where they are stored. MoMA has nitrate prints. From https://clui.org/ludb/site/museum-modern-art-film-archive https://clui.org/ludb/site/museum-modern-art-film-archive : > There are only a few film archives in the country that store nitrate film, and they include the major film archives in the nation: the two Packard archives (Culpeper, Virginia, and Santa Clarita, California); the George Eastman House’s Louis B. Mayer Conservation Center in Chili, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art Film Archive, in Hamlin, Pennsylvania. MoMA’s collection is the largest private film collection in the world. Most of it is located in this purpose built 33,000 square foot, two-building, partially underground compound on 37 acres of woodland and meadows in the Pocono Mountains. Also known as the Cesleste Bartos Film Preservation Center.
- eesmith 3y agoVideo tour of the Eastman nitrate vault at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qcDoWau0EU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qcDoWau0EU .