The word "microfilm" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use "microfilm" when you are referring to a film containing microphotographs. For example, "I found the information I needed in the microfilm archive."
The particular information in the Daily Telegraph's story was smuggled to London on microfilm hidden inside a key".
"The end result will be more openness," predicts Bruce Schneier, a data-security guru.From safe to sieveWhen corporate information lived only on paper, which was complemented by microfilm about 50 years ago, it was much easier to manage and protect than it is today.
Many years later Andrei Sakharov, a Soviet dissident, helped smuggle a microfilm copy to the West, where it was eventually published in English in 1985.The book was not an immediate success.
Judging by the Pactel report, many companies would be wise to consider buying a microfilm system rather than a computer; or facsimile machines rather than word-processors (if their main need is electronic mail rather than text editing).Related topics Motorola Europe United States ChicagoA third problem is simply lack of information.
Mormon researchers have amassed 2.4m rolls of microfilm of births, deaths and marriages.
Vannevar Bush, in his famously prognostic and influential essay in the Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, described how adding structured code words to associated microfilm pages in his imaginary "Memex" information-retrieval system would help researchers.
He discovered that the local government of Los Angeles had lots of information about its citizens on microfilm.
Pickup on South Street (1953), directed by Samuel Fuller, attacked postwar American capitalism; its central character is a man who accidentally acquires a top-secret microfilm but will only part with it for a price, no matter how that may jeopardize the safety of his country.
These full-text references eliminate the intermediate step characteristic of older systems in which users first performed an electronic search and then obtained the articles themselves in print or microfilm.
The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art in Fort Worth houses many paintings and bronzes of Western artists and maintains a microfilm collection of Western newspapers published before 1900.
In 1983 the library began producing most of the National Union Catalog on microfiche (sheets of microfilm containing rows of microimages of pages of printed matter).
