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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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Systematically organized by type of records held, dates of coverage, locations of original and microfilm records in their holdings, these repositories can be methodically accessed by even the most novice of genealogists.
The three businesses include UMI, Periodicals in Microfilm, XanEdu and the Microfilm and Digitization Service operations.
While microfilm is known to be plagued with quality problems and a high labor cost for retrieval, its place in check archival has remained intractable absent any clear business case to the contrary.
 
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