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| Paul Otlet was a Belgian who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.  
| Paul Otlet was a Belgian who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.  
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| ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItEZlZBiGZE The Race to Save 100 Years]''<br/><small>([https://archive.org/details/youtube-ItEZlZBiGZE mirror])</small>
| 1997
| Scott Benson
| Films
| English
| 57 min.
| As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints. This film stresses the importance of saving these and more recent films as cultural documents that have become part of our shared history. It also takes the viewer through the painstaking process of film restoration, and highlights some of the organizations and individuals who are spear-heading this movement.
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Revision as of 21:33, 3 August 2018

This is a list of films and documentaries about archiving. Not only about professional archiving, but also amateur efforts by anonymous people, collectors of vinyls, VHS tapes or prolific photographers. This page also includes documentaries about preservation and restoration of works by libraries and museums specialist departments, and book digitization projects.