mike: my name is mike mashon. i am the head of the moving image section at the library congress, the home of the largest collection of video and the world. within this building, they have not only the film, video and sound recording of the library, but we also have preservation laboratories that are dedicated to making sure that all of this material is available for future generations. the story of the packard campus actually begins in the late 1990 s. our benefactor, david packard, was interested in creating a facility for the library that would house the collections and the preservation laboratories. there was a facility here in culpeper that had gone up for sale. it used to belong to the federal reserve bank of richmond. at its height in the late 1960 s until it closed in 1993, it stored $3 billion in coin and currency that was going to be used to pump up the u.s. economy east of the mississippi in the event of a nuclear catastrophe. the building was for sale. the packard
weekend, on c-span 3. packardary of congress preservation in culpeper, virginia and talked about the paper print preserves and provides access to the library s vast collection of films, television, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings. american history tv visited the facility to learn about the paper print collection. films from the earliest era of motion pictures produced between 1894 and 1912. over 3,000 paper prints were created for copyright purposes but cannot be projected. they must be scanned one frame at a time in order to be copied. mike: my name is mike mashon. i am head of the moving image section here at the library congress, the home of the largest collection of film and video in the world. within this building, they have not only the film, video, and sound recording collections of the library, but we also have preservation laboratories that are dedicated to making sure that all of this material is available for future generations. the story of the packard c
mike: my name is mike mashon. i am the head of the moving image section at the library congress, the home of the largest collection of video and the world. within this building, they have not only the film, video and sound recording of the library, but we also have preservation laboratories that are dedicated to making sure that all of this material is available for future generations. the story of the packard campus actually begins in the late 1990 s. our benefactor, david packard, was interested in creating a facility for the library that would house the collections and the preservation laboratories. there was a facility here in culpeper that had gone up for sale. it used to belong to the federal reserve bank of richmond. at its height in the late 1960 s until it closed in 1993, it stored $3 billion in coin and currency that was going to be used to pump up the u.s. economy east of the mississippi in the event of a nuclear catastrophe. the building was for sale. the packard