Since lately there have been several posts regarding photographs, lantern slides, and film, I offer this number to help 800-242-2424. It is for Kodak, and if anybody in the country knows how to handle film, or where to refer you for help, it is Kodak. I was given the number by a HABS/HAER photogarapher. >I have a very old and brittle 16mm film which we would like to >a) be able to view and b) be able to conserve or restore. As this >is not my area of expertise, what can be done to save this film >footage? Feel free to send replies off list. Thanks! > >Melissa R. Smith >Dayton Veterans Museum >VA Medical Center >4100 W. Third Street >Dayton, OH 45428 >[log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Motivated primarily by their own inner vision, a desire for riches, and an unbounded faith in the abundance of nature, they were willing to simply go out in the field, dig into the earth, and find out what was there" David Kruase __The Making of a Mining District__ Richard A. Fields Graduate Student of Industrial Archaeology Michigan Tech. Univ. [log in to unmask]