Although recovery of films that have been submerged for decades has been done (see "The Carpet from Bagdad" as an example), to date, there have been no salvage-diving efforts to locate or recover the DuMont archive that reportedly sits in the East River, and if it survived in that environment, most of the films were likely damaged. Other kinescopes were put through a silver reclaiming process, because of the microscopic amounts of silver that made up the emulsion of black-and-white film during this time.