🧵1️⃣/2️⃣ Thousands of educational filmstrips are deteriorating faster than they can be digitized. 🎞️
Archivist Mark O’Brien explains why preserving these overlooked materials has become a race against time and why they remain an invaluable record of 20th century American culture.
📚 Read O’Brien’s essay in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.
🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/108/



Archivist Mark O’Brien explains why preserving these overlooked materials has become a race against time and why they remain an invaluable record of 20th century American culture.
📚 Read O’Brien’s essay in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.
🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/108/



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