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The Short Subject
The newsreel makes an important challenge to the written encyclopedia. Even' studio maintains, a "film library" and in one of these libraries there are now sixty million feet of film. About half of this footage comes from newsreels. The rest was gathered during the making of location pictures throughout the United States and the world.
A lost film libraries start with newsreels of the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906, but some have footage ten years or more earlier than that time. For research on customs and manners from 1906 through todav, it is practically unnecessary for any film producer to refer to a printed encyclopedia. His film library furnishes him adequate pictorial examples and in more vivid form, for these are not still photographs. People sit, stand, eat, dress, and walk in the exact manner of the period.
When the king of a large Latin country abdicated, one studio considered making a picture based on his life. Its film library assembled sixty reels covering twenty-five years of the monarch's career. His boyhood and all other public incidents, including three dramatic attempts at assassination, were portrayed. Another sixty reels on Charles Lindbergh will be of priceless value to aviation students a thousand years from now, for these reels offer a graphic pictorial record which is at once available, easily studied, and absolutely correct.
Because it has put film apparatus to physical tests far bevond those which would come in normal studio operation, the newsreel has also been of scientific value to the
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