With the rise in home video and DVDs, the archives of movie studios have become valuable corporate assets, leading to extensive efforts to track down the best surviving elements of films (searching archives and laboratories around the world), and preserve and restore them. One such archive is George Eastman House outside Rochester, N.Y., where thousands of early movies are kept in frigid, low-humidity vaults.
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