Thursday, June 23, 2011

Canadian Nitrate Film Preservation Centre

The Library and Archives Canada has opened a new Nitrate Film Preservation Centre in Ottawa.

What is nitrate film you ask?  Well nitrate film is what they used to make film stock out of before cellulose acetate or polyester was invented.  Nitrate film is extreme combustable so proper storage and handling is required, polyester or cellulose acetate film is safer (that is why some modern film stocks say Safety Film on it).

Click here to read the Ottawa Citizen article and to see Program alumni Carla Kluck, who is a Digital Imaging Technician at Library and Archives Canada, show off the equipment at the new Nitrate Film Preservation Centre.

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