microfilm
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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
In 1994, they were handed over to the German Federal Archives and microfilm copies were sent to the US National Archives in Washington DC.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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
Each month, he found, was on a separate roll of microfilm.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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
Researchers found the information in historical documents and microfilms at the Connecticut State Library, among other sources like Ancestry.com and digitized newspapers.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
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
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
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
After that raid, Solzhenitsyn began microfilming all his work and arranging for its underground transmission abroad for safekeeping.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the end of the Workshop, SPERBERG-McQUEEN confessed to having been converted to a limited extent to the view that electronic images constitute a promising alternative to microfilming; indeed, an alternative probably superior to microfilming.
From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress
