The Revolution Will Be Digitized

Libraries create online archives to preserve and share film and video

Amid thousands of boxes of 16-millimeter film piled in a library basement here at the University of Virginia, one dated May 1967 is tempting to view. In big black type on a yellowing, brittle label it says: "Bloodmobile Accident."

It might be a spectacle, but William G. Thomas III, who helped rescue this news footage from a local TV station, had gone hunting in the heap for moments of more significance to the

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