film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material
<noun.artifact> [ verb ]
record on microfilm
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Microfilm \Mic"ro*film\, v. t. to photograph and produce images of on microfilm. [PJC]
Microfilm \Mic"ro*film\, n. [Micro- + film.] a photographic film with one or more very small images of printed or other graphic matter. Numerous images, corresponding to the contents of a book, newspaper, or journal, are typically produced on one long roll of film, and may be viewed for reading in a special apparatus called a microfilm reader. [PJC]
A concerted effort to identify the nation's most complete collections and microfilm them is under way, led by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Russell said.
A library worker noticed about three weeks ago that sections of the microfilm seemed to be missing, Miriam Drake, dean and director of libraries at Georgia Tech, said Tuesday.
Among the likely targets: machines that read microfilm and other micrographic products, videocassette tapes and specialty films.
One hundred reels of microfilm copies of U.S. patents have disappeared from the library at Georgie Tech, and library officials say it appears to be part of a nationwide theft.
The principal significant event was the retrieval of microfilm from a hollowed-out pumpkin for Nixon, then a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, by the owner of the farm, a Time magazine editor named Whittaker Chambers.
The high-end of the three, the KIMS 5000, uses either a 12-inch optical disk or microfilm, the more common medium now being used to store documents.
The 100 people in the program handle overflow calls for Trans World Airlines flight reservations, assemble electronics for exercise machines, microfilm documents and form sheet metal for ducts.
Bell & Howell Co., which has spent the better part of a decade battling a stodgy image as a maker of movie cameras and microfilm readers, is suddenly attracting a lot of interest.
She said the microfilm is stored in open library stacks, but there always is an employee in that area when the library is open. She said the library soon will "close" the patent records, meaning permission will be required to use them.
Goodness knows what the producers imagine microfilm looks like.
Kodak is building a 10 billion-yen lab near Tokyo where Japanese engineers will develop computerized equipment that files documents and other images on microfilm and optical disks.
At the D.A.R.'s imposing library near the White House in Washington I was allowed (for a $5 fee) to look at microfilm of three of those applications.
Stolen microfilm containing information on the entire Finnish population has been found at the bottom of a lake, a newspaper said Monday.