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THE MAGIC CARPET TCP'S FILM LIBRARY
Atlas carried the world on his shoulders.
TCP’s Film Library carries it in rolls of film.
On a moment’s notice, they can transport you on their magic carpet to the Canals of Venice, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Arch of Triumph in Paris, Piccadilly Circus in London, the Fjords of Norway, Rockefeller Center, the Riviera, the South Pole, the wheat fields of Kansas, the South Sea Islands, the tulips of Holland or the Taj Mahal of India.
In a little building sandwiched between the Music Hall and the Research Library, the whole world is recorded on motion picture film.
The object of a film library is to supply stock shots of actual locales, thus obviating the necessity of having to shoot costly locations and run up production costs.
TCP’s Film Library has paid ample dividends both in time and money saved producers, directors and editors.
Up until 1932, film of loosely related backgrounds and subject matter was spliced together, put on reels, stored in cans and recorded in a card index. When a producer or director asked for a certain
By Clemmie Galloway Photos by Jack Pashkovosky
kind of background, the card index was referred to and reels of film were run off until he found what he wanted or gave up trying.
The system of cataloguing and filing film developed in 1932 by Carl Effinger, Head of the Film Library, is the most
comprehensive, yet simplest of any in the entire motion picture industry.
By breaking film down into small, exact categories and making a roll of each, reels, which take up so much space in the can, have been dispensed with. To give an example: small rolls of film
Carl Effinger, seated. Head of the Film Library, and a TCFer since 1926, checks over one of the Library's simplified catalogues with Art Director Lee Fuller. The Art Dept, sometimes uses these records for authentic reference work in planning the sets and scenery in pictures.
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