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Deborah Stoiber opens a reel of decomposing film at the George Eastman House Louis B. Mayer Conservation Center in Chili, N.Y., Thursday April 24, 2008. Thousands of pre-1951 movies captured on volatile nitrate film are kept in frigid, low-humidity vaults in a modest cinderblock building owned by the George Eastman House museum on the piney outskirts of Rochester. (AP Photo/David Duprey)