Harvard Film Archive: About the HFA: "Based at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) stores more than 8,000 films in climate-controlled vaults in Southborough, Massachusetts. Preservation is HFA's watchword: saving rare and valuable film from rapid deterioration was the stated mission of film maker and faculty member Robert G. Gardner '48 when he founded the archive in 1979. " ... and i always thought it was j*u*s*t a neighborhood theater ;-)!