Microfilm is, technically, a common case of the more generic microform. A microform is a photographically reduced document on film. A bunch of pages on a reel of film is microfilm.

Only 3 of the original 298 Saab 21 fighters survive. But hidden in its twin-boom frame is a story of German blueprints ...

Microfilm machines trained people’s eyes to read differently: A blur of rapidly advancing images replaced flipping through pages, a precursor to the transition from reading books to surfing the web.

The following table summarizes the film sets and microfilm types: SeriesRecord TypeRollsFilm Size1949records 1911-1949, all aircraft (handwritten AHCs)6235mm1962records 1950-1962, aircraft stricken ...

There are some gaps in the microfilm collection that was completed in 1997, including the entire year 1914. The collection is available for viewing at the Deep River Public Library.

Rep. Richard M. Nixon (R-Calif.) views microfilm of State Department papers with Robert E. Stripling, chief investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee, in Washington on Dec. 6, 1948.

Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. For approximately three decades before the turn of the century, COM machines were used to take print-image output from the computer either ...

A microfilm technician picked up the ones after the 1930s. The records Vire was looking for had been found, though no one really realized they had been lost.

Over the past several years, they have worked with the database NewspaperArchive to digitize the library’s microfilm. They have gone from having just The Enquirer and the Cincinnati Post ...