“Sometimes the only thing that can be done is to freeze a film in the hopes that a scientific solution to the problem will emerge… When we froze her films at least 15 years ago, they were literally fused together in an unfortunate form known by lab people and archivists as ‘a hockey puck’”. https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/film-conservation-work-reveals-cairo-streets-circa-1932/


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