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Cyprus Film Archive (Photo credit: Cyprus Film Archive)

When I think of state-of-the-art vaults stacked with films, I think of the studios and a variety of university and film museum archives. It turns out that there’s a government bunker in Virginia that houses a whole lot of movie history.

The U.S. created the film copyright designation 100 years ago — on August 24, 1912.  Just weeks after the film copyright system was created, films were being submitted for copyright protection, and they are still coming in. The Library of Congress’s Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation is a “Noah’s Ark effort” to save America’s treasure chest of film history.

See the full story at Boston.com.