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Mike Mashon. who heads the video collection, said, “We're really about access. This is preservation for access. We have the original film - sometimes the only copy - from the 1890s all the way up to your favorite television show from a few years ago.”
In many cases, preserving the material required preserving the machinery and technology with which it was recorded or viewed.
The campus includes a 205-seat theater. The public can go there and. free of charge, watch classic movies from the 1930s, 40s. and 50s. Many of those movies were recorded on a nitratebased film that was not used idler 1951.
Nitrate film is highly flammable and self-destructive if not properly stored. Projectors that can show that kind of film haven't been used in decades. No problem. Technicians went to work to rebuild the equipment that can show not only nitrate films, but the 35and 70-millimeter film formats.
“We are one of five projection houses that can show nitrate film stock.'* Lukow said. Many of the films were from the silent movie era. That required building a replica of a 1929 Wurlitsser organ, complete with 40 speakers, housed in
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