Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures (1932)

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FOREWORD This Descriptive Classified Catalog has been prepared, to aid members of the Kodascope Libraries, in selecting Library Films. Kodascope Films are 16 m/m (*H? inch) in width and are made only on slow burning film, which is free from insurance restrictions and does not require a fireproof booth. A full reel of Kodascope Film is approximately 400 feet in length and has the same number of "frames" or pictures as a standard 1, 000-foot reel of theatrical size film. It requires the same length of time for projection at normal speed — 16 minutes. Suggestions to Members A Film Library is like a Book Library in that it is subject to constantly changing demands for the subjects in its possession. Unlike a Public Library, however, a Film Library is a business institution, which must earn its expenses and a fair return upon the capital invested, and it is quite evident that this can be done only by keeping the films continually in use. This means that the Members cannot send in a list of subjects desired, and expect to get all of them at once. In selecting subjects. Members are urged to send in a list with two or three alternates, otherwise the Librarians will be compelled to substitute subjects of which some may not be as satisfactory to the Members. To assist in an intelligent selection of subjects with the least necessary effort subjects in the Kodascope Libraries are arranged in eight classes as follows : Reel numClass Subjects bers from 1. Travel, Sports, Manners and Customs 1,000 up 2. Industries and Agriculture 2,000 3. Popular Science, Useful Arts and Natural History 3,000 " 4. Comedies and Juvenile 4.000 " 5. Religious 5.000 " 6. Reconstructed and Modern History 6,000 " 7. Animated Cartoon Comedies 7.000 " 8. Dramas 8,000 " Where two or more subjects are combined on a single reel, each subject is given an independent number corresponding to its class. Subjects will not be divided and shipped in parts. 3