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  1. 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!)

    #microfilm #archives

  2. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/27/digitizing-democracy-louis-brizuela-takes-viewers-behind-microfiche-scanning-livestream-internet-archive/

  3. Information Density: Microfilm and Microfiche - Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD c... - hackaday.com/2025/06/09/inform #engineering #microfiche #microfilm #microform #history

  4. (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

    #shortfilm #microfilm #blackmagic #blackmagicdesign #bmpcc #cinema #cinematography #videography #filmmaking #filmmaker

  5. #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

  6. Spy Tech: Making Microdots - It isn’t just a spy movie trope: secret messages often show up as microdots. [The ... - hackaday.com/2024/08/17/spy-te #steganography #mischacks #microfilm #microdot #film

  7. 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.

    #libraries #microfilm #microfiche #genealogy #research

  8. Just learned about

    aperture cards - "a type of punched card with a cut-out window into which a chip of microfilm is mounted".

    Holy, are they æsthetically pleasing.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apertu

    #aperture #punchcards #microfilm #retrohardware

  9. #NewYear New #Introduction!

    Hi! My name is Karsten. I am a #Montana-born, #Harvard/Exeter educated, currently #Unemployed former corporate #Zoom handler / micro-targeted #Progressive congressional campaign #Adman / #Webby award-winning #Podcast #Producer / #Meat snack shiller / drunken #Magic and #Libertarian bloviation enabler / #Machinimist / #eSports coverage pioneer / #TV #VideoGame review showrunner / 4-time (local) #Emmy award-winning real-time #MotionCapture #Computer animator / #Web researcher / medical #Microfilm archivist / #NativeCalifornian anthropologic #Book distributor / #Bus driver / #InnerCity #Indian camp counselor / #NationalPark dish washer / outdoor #Travel magazine intern / #Soccer camp entrepreneur.

    My #Hobbies have included #SunsetPhotography, building an elaborate #HauntedHouse out of PVC pipes, plastic sheeting, and children's screams, #RollingLadderBookshelf construction, starting unknown #RockBands in basements they never left, and making precisely 1024 character #Mastodon posts.