How film reels can store your data

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00:00This vault in Svalbard is designed to protect your data from global disasters

00:09and it uses film reels to store that data.

00:13It is 35mm black and white film.

00:16Here we have about 24 frames, about a second of traditional cinema film

00:20but obviously we don't think of it in those terms.

00:22We think of it as about 50 megabytes of data.

00:24Don't worry, our history isn't being recorded in black and white.

00:30PICL software converts digital files into binary code

00:35which is then recorded on the film reels in a series of pixels, just like a QR code.

00:42So if you think about an analogue photo camera or a video camera,

00:45when you open the lens, when you press the shutter,

00:47it lets the light of the world come in and make an imprint onto the film.

00:51Here we're doing the same except we are sending the imprint that we want.

00:55For more, head to YouTube and search for Razor Science Show.

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