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Old movie newsreels dating as far back as 1917 will be digitized and put up on the Net under a joint project of IBM and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Some 27 million feet of reels that were shown in theaters and outtakes are in the Hearst Metrotone News Collection.
Newsreels to be saved at UCLA
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