Mary Kidd pops a VHS tape in the deck and rewinds. Two kids appear on the
screen, dancing to music and laughing.

Kidd and her colleagues meet in this loft in Tribeca in New York City every
Monday to digitize tapes like this one. The loft has racks of tape decks,
oscilloscopes, vector scopes and wave-form monitors that help ensure a
quality transfer from analog to digital.

Kidd and the others are archivists and preservationists, and they're part
of a group called XFR Collective (pronounced Transfer Collective). Most
work professionally, but they volunteer their free time to do this. And
while the mood is light, there is a sense of a deadline.


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Peterk
Dallas, Tx
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