microfilm

IPA: mˈaɪkrʌfɪɫm

a continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size

Examples of "microfilm" in Sentences

Often the microfilm is worn out and no effort is made to improve the situation.
I came down here to the Boulder library and ordered microfilm from the National Archives.
I'm buried in microfilm and old court records, and don't expect to emerge until after the conference.
Common situations: Ten years ago, records of interest to genealogists were available primarily in microfilm format.
The combination of optical projection and photographic reduction is already producing some results in microfilm for scholarly purposes, and the potentialities are highly suggestive.
And these libraries do not even do a thorough job of checking that the microfilm is clear and legible, so entire issues are lost and can never be recovered, because the originals have already been turned to pulp.
I tend to cringe and hold my tongue when I hear people say that digitization is bad for preservation because it makes people think we don't have to preserve the paper or microfilm, which is the only way to keep these cultural artifacts around for the long term.