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Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record
19870h 58m
Overview
A documentary describing the devastating deterioration of intellectual documents such as pamphlets, photographs, films, drawings, and maps. Assesses the situation, demonstrates preservation and restoration techniques, and suggests ways to prevent deterioration in the future. Features remarks by several experts, writers, and historians, such as James Michener, Barbara Tuchman, Daniel Boorstin, and Vartan Gregorian.
Directed by Terry Sanders
Written by Terry Sanders, Ben Maddow
0Top Cast
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Robert MacNeil
Narrator
About Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record
Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record is a documentary film released in 1987. Directed by Terry Sanders, it stars Robert MacNeil. A documentary describing the devastating deterioration of intellectual documents such as pamphlets, photographs, films, drawings, and maps. Assesses the situation, demonstrates preservation and restoration techniques, and suggests ways to prevent deterioration in the future. Features remarks by several experts, writers, and historians, such as James Michener, Barbara Tuchman, Daniel Boorstin, and Vartan Gregorian.
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