Newspaper photo morgues, the vast filing rooms where prints and negatives were stored for decades, have mostly been sold off or thrown away as papers digitized. The New York Times still has its full archive, a room of file cabinets holding millions of prints stamped, cropped, and annotated by editors going back to the early twentieth century. This short film follows the staff who run the Lively Morgue tumblr, the project that pulls images out of those cabinets and posts them online with the handwritten captions and editing marks still visible. Archivists explain what the marks reveal about how a newsroom actually worked before computers, and how the same digital shift that made physical morgues obsolete is now the thing giving this one a second life and a public audience. The film treats the photographs themselves as evidence, letting crops, grease-pencil notes, and stamped dates do the talking about how news photography was chosen, trimmed, and published decades ago.