microfilm

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1. microfilm - Noun

2. microfilm - Verb

Meaning

film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material

record on microfilm

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Most of the memex contents are purchased on microfilm ready for insertion. Books of all sorts, pictures, current periodicals, newspapers, are thus obtained and dropped into place. Business correspondence takes the same path. And there is provision for direct entry. Vannevar Bush

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm. Gay Talese

A memex would hypothetically read and write content on these microfilm reels, using electric photocells to read coded symbols recorded next to individual microfilm frames while the reels spun at high speed, stopping on command. Source: Internet

Composite story: The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1, p. 185. This source identifies the source of Sanger's quote as: "Birth Control", Library of Congress collection of Sanger's papers: microfilm: reel 129: frame 12, April 1916. Source: Internet

Harvard University obtained from Peirce's widow soon after his death the papers found in his study, but did not microfilm them until 1964. Source: Internet

Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Roll: 1103; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0470; FHL microfilm: 1241103 His father died when the boy was a year old. Source: Internet

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