Archivists preserve films at UChicago's South Side Home Movie Project

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Justin D. Williams sits at a desk and points at a computer screen that shows a man swinging a baseball bat. Camille "Ami" Townson stands behind and looks at the screen. A large machine for digitizing film reels sits in the foreground.
Close up of Camille Townson looking through a magnifying loupe at a reel of film on a lightbox.
A loupe magnifies a single cell of a film reel sitting on a lightbox. The image inside the lens is a group of Black men posed together outside.
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Justin D. Williams and processing archivist Camille "Ami" Townson watch the digitized footage of a softball game.
Photo by Jean Lachat