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microfilm

[mahy-kruh-film] / ˈmaɪ krəˌfɪlm /




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The records, seized by American troops after the Nazis were defeated in World War II, had previously only been available on microfilm.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

Jim Jaffe, 90 years old, is in the consulting phase of a career that started in his father’s microfilm business and included a private-equity stint in the middle.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Thanks to “Cosmic Music,” anyone interested in her life and work doesn’t have to go comb through microfilm or ancient magazines to learn more about this unbelievably accomplished and completely fascinating human being.

From Salon Apr. 14, 2026

“The A.I. is not going to go and get microfilm, I can tell you that.”

From Slate Nov. 3, 2025

His captors had five million Earthling books on microfilm, but no way to project them in Billy’s cabin.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Yiddish professors like Kirzane and Anita Norich, who translated “A Jewish Refugee in New York,” by Kadya Molodovsky, have discovered works by scrolling through microfilms of long-extinct Yiddish newspapers and periodicals that serialized the novels.

From New York Times Feb. 6, 2022

I’ve spent many enjoyable afternoons at the court archives in Chicago, combing through the microfilms indexes and trying to find lawsuits that involved Holmes.

From Salon Apr. 22, 2019

After hours scouring Cyrillic microfilms on outmoded computers in the public archives, we found my family’s records.

From New York Times Sep. 18, 2017

The offenders also are banned from appearing in any further entertainment program, online drama or microfilms.

From Washington Times Oct. 10, 2014

I spent the evening at the public library looking at microfilms of the El Paso Times.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz

A volunteer in the 1990s, Robert E. Denney, was unbundling Civil War service records to be microfilmed when he saw an opportunity with a curio that had outlasted its usefulness.

From Washington Post Jan. 16, 2023

The collection includes more than 4,600 English- and Japanese-language issues published in 13 camps and later microfilmed by the Library.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

According to the Postal Museum, V-Mail microfilmed specially designed letter sheets.

From Seattle Times Jun. 2, 2019

Like many good reporters, McBride took off on a “slight,” if time-consuming, tangent — spending day after day poring over reels of microfilmed documents related to the FBI and the JFK assassination.

From Salon Dec. 8, 2018

It was not really a diary, just a sequence of notes, calculations and ideas that Roger Hunter had jotted down and microfilmed from time to time.

From Gold in the Sky by Llewellyn

The ark story when I was a kid, they probably would have been feverishly microfilming encyclopedias and phone books and stuff.

From Slate May 26, 2015

The landmark 1976 bill set rules governing radio, television, photocopying, tape recording, microfilming and computer storage, breaking a 15-year logjam on a subject that bored most lawmakers.

From New York Times Mar. 20, 2015

After that raid, Solzhenitsyn began microfilming all his work and arranging for its underground transmission abroad for safekeeping.

From Time Magazine Archive

With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts.

From Time Magazine Archive

The goal was to make scanning as affordable and acceptable as photocopying and microfilming for preservation reformatting.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress




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