Anne Morra, The Future of MoMA’s Film Collection

With one of the world’s premiere film archives, the Museum of Modern Art has led the way since 1935 in preserving and treating movies as art worthy of study and preservation. The Department of Film’s Associate Curator Anne Morra considers with us the question: What happens to such a treasure trove in a cinematic world that has become digital? What happens to a film archive when the major Hollywood studios now realize the eternal value of their own history?

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