Name: The Nuclear Bunker Preserving Movie History
Uploaded: 2019-03-16T09:41:42.000Z
Duration: 3 min 10 s
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- [Narrator] We're in Culpeper, Virginia,

at this building, which once belonged to the Feds.

was sort of an anti-nuclear contingency program.

Now they house something completely different, film.

the Library of Congress's Packard Campus.

Its goal is to ensure the survival and conservation

And over 144,000 of the most precious of these

(film leader beeping) (projector whirring)

where our technicians do nothing but repair films.

special suites for doing two-inch videotapes,

The oldest and most dangerous of all the film bases.

They're very austere-looking, like a high-security prison.

because nitrate film has the basic same chemical compound

A nitrate fire is like nothing you have ever seen.

Because it's almost like a controlled explosion.

It burns with a bright orange-yellow flame

My interest has always been in early film.

one of the largest and most unique collections

And film is one of the absolute best ways of doing that.

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