The Revolution Will Be Digitized

Libraries create online archives to preserve and share film and video

By SCOTT CARLSON

Charlottesville, Va.

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...