American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1942)

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A — You read a letter in your boy's own writing, like that above. B — The three small boxes shown in the photograph contain over 5000 of these letters — in the form of photographic film. C — On this one roll of 16-mm. film — shown in reduced size — 1700 letters have been photographed. 0 0 created, U.S. Government adopts "V***"MAIL7.. lor communication witn our men on distant ironts jLour boy writes you a letter on a sheet of paper — regular letter size. This is photographed on Kodak microfilm — is reduced in size to about a quarter of a square inch . . . 1/100 of the weight of normal mail. With thousands of other letters — 85,000 letters weighing 2000 pounds weigh only 20 when reduced to microfilm — it is swiftly flown from his distant outpost to America. Here, again through photography, the letter addressed to you is "blown up" to readable size — folded, sealed in an envelope, and forwarded to you. It is as clear as the original writing. It really is the writing of your boy because it's a photographic print. And your letters to him, which you write on special forms, go by the same space-savuig, tnne-savuig V Mail. Kodak developed and perfected the process . . . Pan American Ainvays and British Overseas Airways, the two great pioneers in transoceanic air transport, blazed the air trails . . . and the three companies, as Airgraphs, Ltd., offered the service to the American and British governments. I N APRIL, 1941, under the trademark "Airgraph," England first employed the system to sol\e the problem of getting mail to and from the forces in the Near East. The Airgraph System was expanded until it knits the British Einpire together with about a million letters a week — persotial and official. And now the men serving overseas in the American armed forces also have the benefits of this form of speedy correspondence. Airgraph, or V Mail as it is called here, is an adaptation of Kodak's Recordak System which has revolutionized record-keeping in thousands of banks and business houses. Many records of the U. S. Census, Social Security, and Army Selective Service are on microfilm — error-proof, lasting miniature photographic copies of the originals . . . Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y. SERVING HUMAN PROGRESS THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY American Cinematographer Novembei-, 1942 503