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We Opened the Microfilm Magazine Box!
May. 1st, 2025 12:02 pm(EDIT: aw, the whole thing's been digitized already on luminist.org: https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/AST.htm (up til May 1960, as Astounding Science Fiction) and https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/AN.htm (when it became Analog). Oh well, it was fun while it lasted! And I'm probably going to spend a lot of quality time with luminist.org, holy bananas!)
An old veteran and us and opened the mysterious dusty box! Inside was 28 consecutive reels of Astounding Science Fiction, v. 12 (Oct. '33) - v. 67 (Aug. '61). All looked untouched. Exciting! We are now trying to find out if we have these issues on paper buried somewhere in the Depths. If not, can it be digitized?
The film looked to be roughly 1.5 inches in diameter, so even if the big Boston public library refuses to let us use its reader, if necessary, I could possibly just unspool it on my lightbox and use a high-res camera to take pictures, then crop and PDFize. But what’s the odds that’ll be necessary?
( reflecting on the environment and how I’ve gotten used to really, really bad ones! )
An old veteran and us and opened the mysterious dusty box! Inside was 28 consecutive reels of Astounding Science Fiction, v. 12 (Oct. '33) - v. 67 (Aug. '61). All looked untouched. Exciting! We are now trying to find out if we have these issues on paper buried somewhere in the Depths. If not, can it be digitized?
The film looked to be roughly 1.5 inches in diameter, so even if the big Boston public library refuses to let us use its reader, if necessary, I could possibly just unspool it on my lightbox and use a high-res camera to take pictures, then crop and PDFize. But what’s the odds that’ll be necessary?
( reflecting on the environment and how I’ve gotten used to really, really bad ones! )
