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microfilm
A continuous film strip that holds several thousand miniaturized document pages. See micrographics.

Microfilm and Microfiche
Billions of pages have been recorded on film and fiche, but optical methods are replacing this old imaging method.

microfilm
a strip of film of standard width on which books, newspapers, documents, etc., can be recorded in miniaturized form

microfilm [′mī·krə‚film]
(graphic arts)
Greatly reduced film records of such things as books, newspapers, engineering drawings, reports, and manuscripts; copies are made on fine-grain film of 16, 35, 70, and 105-millimeter size, permitting easy storage and handling.


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Today every format of microfilm can be converted to a digital format (Microfiche, jacketed fiche, 16mm and 35mm microfilm, COM, 105 mm Step & Repeat Microfiche and aperture cards) allowing you to search for an image, and even grant multiple user access to images.
In the meantime, the Historical Society will continue to store periodicals as they come in, but will not microfilm any until it knows what its funding will be.
95 Hardcover PG2998 Through research of 19th- and early-20th-century literary journals saved on microfilm, Hetenyi compiled a large bibliography of lost Russian-Jewish literature.
 
 
 
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