Improve fire protection safety around flammable film with NFPA 40, Standard for the Storage and Handling of Cellulose Nitrate Film.

Cellulose nitrate-based motion picture film requires special fire safety and fire protection precautions because of its extreme flammability. Keep your knowledge up to date on provisions concerning every aspect of storage and handling of cellulose nitrate motion picture film in archival vaults and film cabinets, motion picture projection booths and theaters, laboratories, and film exchanges with NFPA 40, Standard for the Storage and Handling of Cellulose Nitrate Film.

This standard provides facility designers and engineers, code enforcers and inspectors, and film vault owners and operators with updated, comprehensive requirements for the safe storage, handling, and fire protection for nitrate film, including:

• Construction requirements and arrangements of buildings
• Fire protection
• Storage and handling of nitrate film
• Motion picture projection and special processes
• Special occupancies

Minimize fire risks and hazards with updated requirements.

The 2025 edition of NFPA 40, Standard for the Storage and Handling of Cellulose Nitrate Film, offers new updates to provide users with new safety requirements for storing nitrate film, including updated requirements in Chapter 4, “Construction Requirements and Arrangements of Buildings.”