You have some options.  1. You can try to view the film on a library (or state archives or city) 35 mm reader, as already suggested, and look only at images on the first 10 or 20 feet of the film.  If it is a manually operated reader, you can go slowly and possibly minimize the damage. 2. You can try the hand held viewer as suggested, again going slowly and carefully.  3. You can obtain a "jewelers" or "photographic" loupe (borrowed or possibly purchased from a photo supply store or from the web), borrow the use of a light table with rewinds (again from a state or city office) and spot view images down the length of the film.
 
Whichever you choose, it will be time consuming.  You will need to know the content of the film before you can determine the approach and cost to preserve the film if it is necessary.  If it does contain permanent images, then you can consider duplicating the film to negative silver rolls (on polyester base) or possibly converting the images to digital.   You then have to put the appropriate measures in place to preserve the duplicated or converted images for the future.
 
Ginny Jones

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