Inside the New York ‘time machine’ racing to save a century of sound and film

UN News - Global perspective Human stories reports: “I tell my kids I work in a time machine,” said Rhony Dostaly. In a basement beneath Lincoln Center, the media preservation engineer rescues moments from the past. “I go back in time, and I grab elements, and I make them available for people today.” He and his colleagues at the New York Public Library (NYPL) are working against the clock to preserve the contents of film, tape, discs and cylinders that hold more than a century of sound and moving images. The records are decaying, and the machines that can play them are disappearing.

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