EditorialAndrew Wert, the new armorer for the production of “Rust,” locks up a replica rifle after a scene was filmed at the Yellowstone Film Ranch in Pray, Mont., on April 21, 2023. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
EditorialAn Endpoint Cylinder and Dictabelt Machine, which can retrieve information from broken cylinder shards that are incapable of being traditionally played, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York on Dec. 19, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)