About Roc archive

ROC Archive is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit regional audiovisual education archive dedicated to collecting, preserving and providing access to an artistic and historical record across the region’s diverse rural, suburban and urban socioeconomic cultures and heritages. t e • C ta o n S n The region includes social interactions Contact Us k e found across New York State, Connecticut, r c o t Y New Jersey and Pennsylvania. By Appointment Only i c The archive focuses on newsreels, home 1260 Lehigh Station Road - Suite 803 w u e t

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Now part of ROC Archive, the Hyatt Classic Video Collection of nearly 50,000 VHS titles attracted film fans from all over New York State for almost 40 years. These videotapes and videotape players will be available for rent to the public again. © ROC Archive 2020 Our Collections

Our collections feature diversity in subject, mediums and film stock. Including, Sonochrome, Orthochromatic, Panchromatic, Kodachrome and Kodacolor, the first color process for home movies using lenticular Teaching amateur filmmaking for home movies will mirrors in the base on the black and white be available to the community for both children and film with a color filter for the camera and adults. Boys in the pool, the projector. The Steele Family Collection Many stories can be used for research or to The ROC Archive concept is inspired by two entertain, examples would include imagery existing and working models: of a rural town reviving a train depot, the architecture of a large city during the early Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, ME also 20th century and the pets in our lives that a regional audiovisual archive and George make us happy. All of life is validated at a Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY which regional audiovisual archive. focuses on professionally produced and released feature and short length films. We serve the public by preserving audiovisual media as sharable, historic and cultural records that otherwise might be lost. We catalogue, digitize, organize and make these assets accessible to the community. Kodascope Model B with Kodacolor filter, The Reinhard Family Collection ROC Archive will be sustained through a combination of earned income from operations and support from interested local, regional, national partners and benefactors. We offer duplication and transfer services that specialize in moving image, still image and audio materials of home and professional use formats. If you would like to learn more about our mission, share your images or make a tax- deductible donation towards our mission please contact us or follow us on social media. Livonia, Lakeville & Avon Railroad Livonia, NY 1963, Aerial of Rochester, NY 1919 by Albert R. Stone, The Wingate Family Collection The Stone Family Collection