Pacific Northwest Film Archive

About Pacific Northwest Film Archive

The Pacific Northwest film archive is a small privately owned and privately operated film archive located in Northwest Washington State.  We are dedicated to collecting and preserving classic 35mm and 70mm motion picture films.  Our extensive film collection currently consists of about 20 million feet of films in both the 35mm film format and the 70mm film format.
Over the last 45 years we have had about 40 million foot of 35mm and 70mm enter this archive and we currently have about 20 million foot of 35mm and 70mm films today.  We have probably been offered or had at one time in our possession most of the classic Hollywood films made on acetate film stock after the year 1951.  Up until the middle 1980s we specialized in musical and science fiction films, but we have slowly drifted away from those films.
Our theater projection facility screening room consists of a 75 theater seat repertory movie theater.  Our repertory movie theater auditorium has a 23 foot wide theater screen that is sound perforated, with a total of 19 large vintage Altec Lansing theater loud speakers installed in the auditorium.  The theater projection equipment is entirely made up of 4 exceptionally large Norelco DP70 35/70mm film projectors that are all installed in the rear projection room and can handle almost any 35mm or 70mm film format ever released.
Our operation here is entirely private and the public is almost never invited.  Our quest is the preservation of all the many films that are located here.  The collection consists of films that span the years 1930 to the year 2016.  All our films are kept in a cool, low humidity, environment to prevent deterioration of the acetate film.  Higher temperatures and humidity can be the greatest enemy to films that are stored together.