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Inside the fireproof vault housing US movie history

The US National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia stores 145,000 highly combustible nitrate film reels in a fireproof vault.
The nitrate film reels date from the 1890s until the early 1950s and are rarely seen by the public.
The vault, established in 2007 in a former US Federal Reserve building in the Blue Ridge Mountains, maintains a perfect no-fire safety record.
The vault contains negatives of classic films including "Casablanca," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," and the 1903 film "The Great Train Robbery".

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Inside the fireproof vault housing US movie history

Once upon a time in the golden days of Hollywood, the movies were bigger, the stars brighter and the celluloid they were filmed on was, well, explosive.

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