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Portrait of a Library (1940)

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Portrait of a Library (1940)
 Sponsors: Montclair Public Library, with support by Agnes Osborne Fund. Production Co.: Hans Burger. Director/Producer/Writer: Hans Burger. Camera: Sy Wexler. Editors: Hans Burger, Sy Wexler. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 23 minutes.

Portrait of a forward-looking public library in New Jersey. The film illustrates the unique place of libraries in American communities.

Note: Inspired by head librarian Margery C. Quigley and William Elder Marcus’s book Portrait of a Library (New York: Appleton-Century, 1936).

Resources
Living Films: A Catalog of Documentary Films and Their Makers (New York: Association of Documentary Film Producers, 1940), 47; Educational Film Catalog, comps. Dorothy E. Cook and Eva Rahbek-Smith (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1943), 79.