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In September 2013, the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress published a 63-page report it had commissioned, written by scholar David Pierce. The subject was the survival of American silent feature films made in the 17 years between 1912, when feature-length movies were first produced in numbers, and 1929, by which time the introduction of sound spelled the demise of silent cinema. Of the 10,919 silent films Pierce recorded, only 2,749 exist today, complete in some form, though often in visually compromised versions. #ExperienceFilmMemory

Open Sourcing MoMA The Museum of Modern Art digital vault: How to ensure that, far into the future, people will be able to understand the bits and bytes that constitute a digital item in our collection, and how to ensure that we can keep a bit-for-bit authentic copy of this digital item indefinitely.

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