Why would computer files be "much more expensive to store long-term" than big reels of film, when you can just keep them on hard disks, cards, or optical discs, and especially optical discs last many decades if not hundreds of years? Maybe a hard disk drive will need to be exercised every so often, so that might not be a great long-term option, but how about flash storage? That's really not that expensive per gigabyte anymore. And you can get data DVDs for as low as 20 cents apiece, or burn data onto single-layer Blu-ray discs for as low as $1.00 per disc! "Much more expensive"? Geesh, with film, over the long term you have to store it in carefully climate-controlled vaults, don't you? Tell me that's "so much less expensive" than storing optical discs without having to worry about that so much.