Cold Storage
In 2002, NHF broke ground on its $1.8 million state-of-the-art Conservation Center. “The Cube” was completed in 2003 and is located behind the Alamo Theatre. The structure offers 27,000 square feet (2,500 m2) of closely monitored, climate-controlled conditions for film storage and preservation. The Cube has three temperature- and humidity-controlled floors. Two floors are kept at 45 degrees Fahrenheit and 25% Relative Humidity. The third floor is designed to prevent further deterioration of films suffering from advanced Vinegar Syndrome. It is kept at 25 degrees Fahrenheit and 30% relative humidity.
The structure’s purpose follows the Library of Congress’s National Film Preservation Plan and represents the only preservation-level audiovisual storage in the region. In addition to climate-controlled conditions, The Cube is equipped with advanced air filtration and exchange technology, an environmentally friendly fire suppression system and flood protection. Currently, more than fifteen institutions from across North America have sent motion picture film and videotape to Bucksport for off site safe-keeping.
Read more about this topic: Northeast Historic Film
Famous quotes containing the words cold and/or storage:
“Prepare your hearts for Death’s cold hand! prepare
Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
Prepare, prepare!”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Many of our houses, both public and private, with their almost innumerable apartments, their huge halls and their cellars for the storage of wines and other munitions of peace, appear to me extravagantly large for their inhabitants. They are so vast and magnificent that the latter seem to be only vermin which infest them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)