🧵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/
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2️⃣/2️⃣ Filmstrips document how generations of Americans learned, worked, communicated, and understood the world around them. Preserving them means saving a unique historical record before more of it disappears.
Find O'Brien's essay and more in the Vanishing Culture report.
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/108/
🛒 Purchase in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new
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