Explore inside the Library of Congress’ hidden film vault

Explore inside the Library of Congress’ hidden film vault

Built into the side of a mountain in Culpeper, Virginia, is a massive underground vault containing some of cinema’s most priceless works of art. Located in the heart of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center on the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus, the Nitrate Film Vault contains nearly 150,000 reels of pre-1951 film shot on nitrate stock. At one point, nitrate was universally used in the film industry, which is why so many classics ar…