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association with others for the sake of economy, the drawing up of a program, not ohly for one, but for every evening of one, or even six months.
After the program has been drawn up there are countless other things to be attended to, such as the preparation, advertisement, arrangement of the evening with popular songs and dances, other music, and many activities, which cannot be discussed here. After the film has been sorted and prepared, it is sent for.
Children are frequently used as film transporters, sometimes with success. This is always a cheap expedient to be made use of when advisable. Trains, the underground, trams, autobuses, are not very desirable means of transport for children to whom films have been entrusted. Railway regulations prescribe that films may only be transported by passenger train when carefully packed and in non-smoking compartments. But as a rule the films are not in their proper packing cases, but loosely piled in boxes, and when the train is full it is difficult to keep children out of the non smoking compartments.
In trains and autobuses it may often be observed how piles of films are quietly heaped up and some casual passenger innocently knocks out his glowing pipe or cigarette on the convenient pile. The irresponsible perpetrator has no idea of the danger to life and property of which he may be the cause, and which the law rightly punishes severely.
Let us assume that our operator enters his non-smoking compartment and, safely arrived his destination, at once takes a look at the film. He cannot do so in his own home, for this is especially forbidden in the government district of Potsdam. It is really dangerous to keep films in the house, as the family cannot be expected to observe the necessary precautions against fire. The inspection of the film should therefore take place in the workroom, or better in a room adjoining it. But this is not often feasible. Special attention should be given to the perforations, the rolling, gumming. Slow unrolling is the secret of success and the roller must be in order. When it has been rolled and is ready for use the film should be put in a special cupboard.
The technical director should be prepared for a visit from the police and should assure himself that the hall, approaches, exits and stage conform to all police regulations. It may be objected that this examination will be made on the first night. But especially in the case of occasional performances in rooms and halls not generally used for such purposes, these precautions are particularly indispensable.
It is by no means unusual to show projections on the platform of what was once a dancing hall, and although this is not actually forbidden by the police regulations of Jan. 19, 1926, it is always fraught with a certain amount of danger if the apparatus is not absolutely fire proof.
As a matter of fact the original regulations have been revoked by a more