A large amount of historical film is kept in nuclear bunkers once made to preserve the President of the United States from the nucleus

A nuclear bunker of the Carpepper which is a nuclear weapons facility that had been possibly evacuated by the President of the United States once the nuclear war broke out, stored a large amount of image film taken in the past taking advantage of its isolation capability It is being done. In order to keep records in future generations, movies revealing the state that massive image films are kept in a more stringent regime than imagined is released.

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A nuclear bunker built to retreat from the influence from nuclear weapons in Calpepper, Virginia state, USA.


With a strict door ......


A security guard multiplied over. It was once used to store gold as well.


If a nuclear war breaks up, this facility could be escaped by the President of the United States ......


It is no longer for nuclear weapons countermeasures.


Currently, facilities that are kept at the facility ......


More than 144,000 video films.


Valuable films such as past major film such as "Casablanca" "Frankenstein" are sleeping.


The name of the building is "Library of Congress Packard Campus (Packard Campus)"


The aim is to keep valuable American film film and leave it in posterity.


George Wilman is the management representative.


Engineers on image film work in the facility.


Keep film at its best ...


Maintaining projectors that are no longer being manufactured. He sometimes even reproduces some of the films that have been missing.


Packard Campus is also a storage place for video films and is also a restoration facility.


Among them, handling of the oldest video film is done strictly.


An image film with a yellow seal "NITRATE (Night Rate)" is an image film of care of handling.


Night late film managed as if it is a strict regime like prison.


It is said that the films are managed so as to be isolated from each other.


Nightlate film that uses the same kind of gun powder as the gun powder used in guns is very easy to burn, so it is handled carefully.


It is necessary to deal with the nightlaid film which passed more than 100 years, assuming the worst case without being overconfident.


Mr. Wilman who takes the old night light film.


About the film of the good old days, he says, "Formally speaking, monetary value may be low but historical value is extremely high."


Always being surrounded by old picture film is the reason why Mr. Wilman works for Packard Campus.


Historically valuable in order to remember your mission as "Do not forget what we were, what kind of people we were, what we did" It is to save the video film. "