Said Sayrafiezadeh

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

American Playwright

Hannah Kent

I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

Australian Writer

Gay Talese

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

American Author

Microfilm is often used for preserving historical records and archives due to its longevity and space-saving format.

Historical Use

Accessing microfilm content requires special devices called microfilm readers or microfilm viewers.

Special Equipment

Microfilm is an analog storage format, distinct from digital, and can be used in places without modern computer access.

Not Digitized

To microfilm documents is a method of preservation, protecting them from physical degradation over time.

Preservation Tool

When organizations microfilm records, it saves physical storage space, an important consideration before digital storage.

Space Saving

Microfilming provides a stable backup for important documents, protecting against data loss in digital systems.

Backup Copy

 this idea of all of human knowledge at your fingertips -- he had this vision. And I think a lot of people in his day probably thought he was a bit of a kook. And, yeah, we can look back in retrospect and say, "Yeah, ha-ha, it's all microfilm -- But that's not the point; he understood the shape of the future.