This Summer, the Peterborough Museum & Archives (PMA) completed a project to restore historic films reels that were damaged during the destructive flood that hit Peterborough in 2004.
The films are part of the larger Roy Photographic Studio collection; an expansive archive of still photographs and motion picture films captured by three generations of the Roy family between 1896 and 1992. This year’s project was to restore 46 reels of film shot by Frederick Lewis Roy (1881-1950).
Trent Radio met with the project lead, Assistant archivist Bo Pickett, and PMA’s archivist, Jon Oldham, to learn about the restoration and to view one of the films that has been digitized.
PMA is still deciding how to display the restored films, but you can view two of the digitized films on their online blog.
