Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record
(1987)
Director:
Terry Sanders
Writer:
Ben Maddow, Terry Sanders
Cast:
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.