The site’s comment sections were mosaics of afterthoughts. A user named L_fast once posted a single line under a noir from 1947: “Watched with my dad’s hand on my shoulder. Thank you.” Another, cinephile84, uploaded a scanned program from a festival in Prague: a photo, a scribbled schedule, a note about a film that had no English release. The work of preservation here was improvisational but sincere. In the gaps left by formal institutions, a ragged, volunteer community practiced a kind of cultural triage.