Save Our VHS Tapes

Libby Hopfauf and Annalise Nicholson are in a race against time, and against tape.by Vivian McCallPhotos by Billie Winter.
Libby Hopfauf and Annalise Nicholson are in a race against time, and against tape.
It’s a spring afternoon, and we’re sitting in the office of the Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS), a narrow rectangular room at City Hall. Old audiovisual technology is stacked to the high ceiling. In the corner by the door, there’s a reel-to-reel dictaphone f