Media Matters » Film Preservation 101: This 80 Year Old Film Printer Still Contributes to Preservation

This week we celebrate the National Archives’ 80th birthday. For the motion picture lab, this anniversary was an opportunity to look back to the beginnings of the organization, when the Archives was still in its teen years and William T. Cooper, Jr. posed for photographs with the Depue optical reduction film printer. The photos, taken in 1952, have graced the walls of the film lab for several years and have particular interest for us. Believe it or not, we not only still have that printer, we occasionally use it! You can click through the pictures in this post to see our re-creations of the 1952 photographs.

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