Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #microfilm, aggregated by home.social.
Hey #believeinfilm friends, any ideas for what EI to shoot expired Kodak Imagelink HQ microfilm at? The Internet says "the usual" – 12 ASA.
The plan is to shoot the test strip in Bronica GS-1 and develop it as Kodak Technical Pan in FX39II. 🤔
#filmphotography #microfilm #filmisnotdead #staybrokeshootfilm
Imagine a mild-mannered white guy who takes on a non-white identity to fight crime. Wouldn’t 1939 radio producers do an amazing job with that? Listen to find out!
https://archive.org/details/tgimh-140-passage-to-the-orient
#TGIMH #OTR #OldTimeRadio #AudioDrama #FictionPodcast #pulp #parody #comedy #antifascist #commandos #microfilm
Swansea Central Library preparing for move to Y Storfa hub
Swansea’s Central Library is set to leave its long‑time home at the Civic Centre next month, with the council confirming the building will close from Monday 20 October ahead of a move to Y Storfa, the new community services hub being developed in the former BHS unit on Oxford Street.
The authority says more than 60,000 books, along with maps, microfilm reels and other resources, will be packed up and transferred to the new site. The library at Y Storfa is due to open later this year, although the exact date has not yet been announced.
Preparing for the move
During the transition, library members will still be able to use Swansea’s 16 other community libraries. Borrowed items can be returned at those branches, while online services such as eBooks, audiobooks and digital magazines will remain available around the clock.
Events including rhyme time, reading groups and digital support sessions will also continue at community libraries. Memberships will automatically transfer to the new Central Library, and loan periods will be extended to support customers during the closure.
The current Swansea Central Library at the Civic Centre, which will close on 20 October ahead of the move to Y Storfa.📚 What is Y Storfa?
A new community hub:
Y Storfa is being developed in the former BHS unit on Oxford Street as a multi‑purpose community services hub.
What it offers:
The council says it will promote community cohesion, digital inclusion, wellbeing and opportunities for learning and growth across Swansea’s diverse communities.
Services under one roof:
Confirmed tenants include Swansea’s new Central Library, the West Glamorgan Archive Service, the council’s customer services centre, Housing Options, revenue and benefits, Careers Wales and Citizens Advice.
Flexible spaces:
The hub will also provide agile accommodation for third sector groups, public bodies and private companies that share its community ethos, with collaborative office space designed to support local initiatives.
Part of regeneration:
Y Storfa is described as a flagship project in Swansea’s £1bn city centre regeneration, supported by the Welsh Government’s Transforming Towns programme.
A hub at the heart of the city
Y Storfa is being described by the council as a flagship part of its £1bn city centre regeneration programme. The hub will bring together a wide range of services under one roof, including the council’s contact centre, Housing Options, lifelong learning and the West Glamorgan Archive Service.
Other organisations due to be based there include Careers Wales, Citizens Advice and Swansea University’s South Wales Miners’ Library. The location, in the heart of Oxford Street, is close to bus routes, cycle paths, taxi ranks and car parks.
Cllr Elliott King, Swansea Council’s Cabinet Member for Culture, said:
An artist’s impression of Y Storfa, the new community hub on Oxford Street that will house Swansea’s Central Library and a range of other services.“Y Storfa will give residents a modern, welcoming Central Library at the heart of the city centre, making it easier than ever to access books, digital resources, and a range of services all in one place.
“This move is a key part of our wider regeneration plans that are transforming Swansea for the future.”
Looking ahead
Council Leader Cllr Rob Stewart said the relocation was about more than just moving books and services.
Cllr Rob Stewart, Leader of Swansea Council, said:
“It’s about creating a central hub where people can learn, access support, and come together as a community. It’ll also combine with many other schemes to create the footfall the city centre needs to attract more shops and other businesses.
He added that the move would also help generate footfall for the city centre, supporting shops and businesses, while freeing up the Civic Centre site for redevelopment.
“Swansea’s regeneration is moving forward at pace, and Y Storfa is a flagship part of that journey.” Cllr Stewart added.
Key details
About Y Storfa
The Y Storfa project is supported by the Welsh Government’s Transforming Towns programme and is one of several schemes forming part of Swansea’s wider regeneration strategy.
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#archives #BHS #books #CareersWales #CentralLibrary #CentralLibraryMove #CentralLibraryRelocation #CitizensAdvice #CivicCentre #CllrElliottKing #CllrRobStewart #Library #maps #microfilm #OxfordStreet #PrincessWay #SouthWalesMinersMuseum #Swansea #SwanseaCouncil #SwanseaLibraries #WestGlamorganArchiveService #YStorfa
This microfilmed document was one of many I scanned from the #NYPL collection of #landsmanshaft and Jewish mutual aid society anniversary journals. This particular one from 1938 was from the Vladimir-Voliner branch #198 of the International Worker's Order (IWO), a communist-affiliated mutual society network. It would have been for Jewish immigrants from what is today Volodymyr Volynskyy, Ukraine. (The M. Rosenfeld can't be the poet Morris, he died in 1923!)
Bit by bit I've been going through many of the things I've scanned and photographed during my research trip to NYC this past winter, and adding the names and context of musicians to my database, and figuring out who they were by looking in old newspapers and genealogy type records. Here's an interesting one that only appeared in one archival source (Philip Juvelier, c.1883–1956) made more curious by another ad I'll share in a later post.
Il mobile da ufficio creato sul finire della guerra per sbloccare il vasto potenziale della mente umana https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=42693
#tecnologia #innovazione #meccanismi #retrofuturismo #anni '40 #novecento #ricerca #ricercatori #scienziati #teorie #ipotesi #costrutti #futuro #dati #articoli #pensiero #scienza #tecnologia #invenzioni #scrivanie #computer #calcolatori #microfilm
Internet Archive: Digitizing Democracy: Louis Brizuela Takes Viewers Behind Microfiche Scanning Livestream. “Brizuela and his six-person team are currently digitizing U.S. Supreme Court case documents and government records from Canada dating back to the 1930s. The documents are stored on microfiche cards, a flat, film-based format commonly used from the mid-20th century for preserving and […]
Information Density: Microfilm and Microfiche - Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD c... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/09/information-density-microfilm-and-microfiche/ #engineering #microfiche #microfilm #microform #history
#Medical #AntibioticResistance #microPlastics #MicroFilm
From CNN.com: Bacterial slime on microplastics helps breed antibiotic-resistant superbugs, study says
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/health/microplastics-antibiotic-resistance-wellness?cid=ios_app
Another bit of 1930s #microfilm history: filming the transcripts of the National Recovery Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration hearings in 1934-35. The first micropublication project, and a deliberate step to force users to accept microfilm readers and projectors (rather than just making prints). "Columbia Business School will absolutely have to have them, whether [chief librarian] Howson likes it or not." https://www.wallandbinkley.com/rcb/2025/01_11_the-first-microfilm-publication-project-part-1.html #histodons
(1/2) One of my favorite spots, 622 Bar&Cafe, is moving at the end of the year and last weekend was the last weekend in the spot they’ve been in for the last like 8+ years so SJ the Artisan and I decided to send it off with one last short film
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#shortfilm #microfilm #blackmagic #blackmagicdesign #bmpcc #cinema #cinematography #videography #filmmaking #filmmaker
Busy Saturday. Last minute short film in the afternoon with SJ the Artisan then right out to a Christmas party after we finished with the Livyatan Animation Studios gang
#weekend #weekendvibes #christmas #shortfilm #microfilm #christmasparty
#Technology that I don't think ever existed, but which *should* have...
The #microfiche #typewriter. [1]
It is a typewriter very closely resembling an #IBM #Selectric electric typewriter. The keyboard is virtually identical, though the platen and print head are different. Instead of the platen being a rubber roller, there is a slot with guides, into which you drop a standard-sized plastic film sheet - a #fiche.
The type element - the "ball" - is identical to a normal Selectric element, except for size. It's only a few millimetres in diameter. Typing is virtually silent, because the ball moves only a tiny, tiny amount at a time, so little you don't even notice it unless you watch for a full line of type.
Above the fiche slot is a small-ish translucent rear-projection screen, which shows the text of the page you're currently typing. Operators work in a dimly-lit room, and their faces are bathed in a diffuse, soft white light.
#retro #RetroTechnology #RetroFuture #TypeElement #TypewriterBall #ShouldHaveBeen #ShouldHave #If #invention #1960s #typewriter
[1] Or #microfilm
V-Mail: A Photo-Based Technological Triumph in Wartime Communication https://petapixel.com/2024/11/22/v-mail-a-photo-based-technological-triumph-in-wartime-communication/ #masscommunications #secondworldwar #communication #Educational #victorymail #worldwartwo #Technology #worldwarii #microfilm #Analog #Kodak #vmail #film #war
The #microfilm news from Yale, Jan. 1934:
"Perhaps a dozen or more of our professors are greatly excited about the use of film reproductions. Several returned this summer from Europe with great rolls of material. We now have four projectors, two being Leicas, in almost constant use." - Charles E. Rush to Robert C. Binkley
1933 (roughly) was the time when usable projectors were coming onto the market, and capture-on-film-to-make-prints was giving way to capture-on-film-to-view-on-a-projector
En 1943, Kodak presentó un anuncio que destaca una innovación tecnológica que tuvo un papel crucial en la Segunda Guerra Mundial: el microfilm. Este avance no solo revolucionó la forma en que se enviaba correspondencia, sino que también tuvo un impacto significativo en las operaciones de espionaje y en la seguridad de las comunicaciones.
Durante este periodo, el uso del correo aéreo se convirtió en una solución vital para mantener la comunicación entre las tropas y sus familias. Sin embargo, las cartas físicas representaban un problema, ya que su peso podía complicar el envío. Aquí es donde el microfilm jugó un papel esencial. Al fotografiar las cartas y reducir su tamaño, se logró una correspondencia mucho más liviana, facilitando así su transporte.
Además, esta técnica tenía un propósito estratégico: al enviar microfilmes en lugar de cartas completas, se minimizaba el riesgo de que la correspondencia cayera en manos enemigas. Esta práctica no solo era eficiente, sino también segura, lo que era fundamental en un contexto de guerra.
Otra aplicación notable del microfilm fue en el espionaje, especialmente entre los espías alemanes que operaban en México. Utilizando la técnica conocida como «micro puntos», estos agentes podían codificar información en un tamaño tan reducido que era casi indetectable. Esta innovación no solo ayudó a salvaguardar la información sensible, sino que también facilitó el intercambio de datos cruciales entre los aliados y permitió a los espías alemanes comunicarse de manera más discreta.
En conclusión, el uso del microfilm durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial no solo optimizó el correo aéreo, sino que también se convirtió en una herramienta clave para el espionaje y la seguridad de las comunicaciones. La capacidad de Kodak para innovar en tiempos de crisis muestra cómo la tecnología puede desempeñar un papel vital en la historia, ayudando a dar forma a eventos que cambiaron el curso del conflicto y, en última instancia, del mundo.
#Espionaje #Historia #Kodak #Microfilm #SegundaGuerraMundial
"H-Bomb Gives Timely Touch to #Microfilm Meeting Here" - Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1954-04-02
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-h-bomb-gives-timely-tou/155032577/
(I've only just noticed that the Plain Dealer is available from newspapers.com - I used to search it at Newsbank when they offered personal accounts, but when they went library-only I lost access, which was not as bad as an H-bomb but still annoying)
Spy Tech: Making Microdots - It isn’t just a spy movie trope: secret messages often show up as microdots. [The ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/17/spy-tech-making-microdots/ #steganography #mischacks #microfilm #microdot #film
Ted Schellenberg sums up his experience as project manager of the first #microfilm publication project, 1934-35, in a letter to his boss Robert C. Binkley: "The tendency ...to regard the issuance of such materials on film as mere experiments, without considering that the materials themselves would contribute to scholarship, has been carried too far... [1/2]
Finally, a photo that captures the drama of #microfilm camera work https://digirepo.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101446440-img
Wow, just stumbled on to this: the CIA checks its microfilm in 1951 https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP70-00211R000300230011-0.pdf #microfilm
Great photograph of the Recordak sheet-feed microfilm camera in operation: https://archive.org/details/recordak-sheetfeed Zoom in to see that she's copying pages of different sizes, which drop into the bin (which, if I'm reading this right, is placed inconveniently so that the operator has to angle her knees to the side). While microfilming the AAA papers in 1934 Ted Schellenberg copied 14,000 pages in a 10-hour shift with one of these babies. (I'm working on a blog post about that project) #microfilm
The first microfilm-for-publication project (i.e. made with the intention to sell multiple copies, rather than just one-off copying to add to one's collection): the National Recovery Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administrations hearings, 1934. https://archive.org/details/AAAmicroform001 #microfilm 1/2
🎨 Discover the captivating "Microfilm Series" by Virginia Colwell - a visual exploration of the past preserved in film! 📽️ #ArtExhibit #VintageVibes #PhotographyLover
🔗https://www.virginiacolwell.com/portfolio/the-microfilm-series/
Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives
By Charles G. Palm, Foreword by Condoleezza Rice
https://www.hoover.org/research/documenting-communism-hoover-project-microfilm-and-publish-soviet-archives
#RussianHistory #SovietUnion #Communism #Libraries #Archives #Microfilm #HooverInstitution #StanfordUniversity #PoliticalScience #PoliticalHistory
Remember microfilm? They made it cool! The library had one of those manual readers that have existed since forever, but they also have this computer-aided scanner. Nothing like slapping in a roll and hitting fast-forward.
