Culpeper, VA Center Will be Movie Lover’s Dream

Culpeper Center Will be Movie Lover’s Dream (wtopnews.com)

The Library of Congress’ National AudioVisual Conservation Center, scheduled to be completed in May 2006, will be “a mega-Blockbuster” with 56 miles of shelf space for America’s film library. It will store nearly 3 million sound and radio recordings and more than 1 million films. More than 18 million feet of vintage Fox Movietone newsreel film will be among the items stored.

It will have a 200-seat movie theater that will host public screenings as often as three times a week. I used to live about 15 miles from this location, which used to be an underground Federal Reserve Communications and Records Center.