Anthony slide writes a fascinating history of the film preservation movement in the united states after covering the dangers of nitrate film and the wholesale junking of film prints during the silent era he documents the beginning of the archive movement in the 1930s and 1940s. This study looks at the preservation process newsreel television and color preservation the often controversial issue of colorization and commercial film archives it provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle including the international museum of photography at george eastman house the american film institute the museum of modern art the ucla film and . Anthony slide writes a fascinating history of the film preservation movement in the united states after covering the dangers of nitrate film and the wholesale junking of film prints during the silent era he documents the beginning of the archive movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Isbn 0899506941 9780899506944 oclc number 25026436 description x 228 pages illustrations 24 cm contents 1 early years and the museum of modern art 2newsreel preservation and the national archives 3the library of congress 4thanks to the film collectors 5the fifties and sixties 6things are seldom what they seem 7specialization in the seventies 8. Nitrate wont wait a history of film preservation in the united states by anthony slide and publisher mcfarland save up to 80 by choosing the etextbook option for isbn 9781476604572 1476604576 the print version of this textbook is isbn 9780786408368 0786408367