Burger, Hanuš, direction writing Wexler, Sy, camera Montclair Public Library (Montclair, N.J.) Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Film Library. moving image motion picture two-dimensional moving image Sponsored films. Short films. Nonfiction films. xxu monographic United States [Museum of Modern Art Film Library] 1940 eng

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1 video file (digital, MPEG-4) (ca. 23 min.) : sd., b&w. With no dialogue, the film shows how a public library can be not only a place for quiet reading, but also dynamic information center. Features the librarian and library staff helping patrons, working with children and delivering books to the hospital, and homebound patrons. the Free Public Library of Montclair, New Jersey presents ; written and directed by Hans Burger ; sponsored by the Agnes Wilson Osborne World Friendship Fund. Based on the book, Portrait of a library, by Margery Closey Quigley and William Elder Marcus. Part of summary from the Montclair Public Library WWW site. Sources used: Montclair Public Library WWW site, history page, viewed August 22, 2018; Montclair Local newspaper, April 8, 2018, (Montclair Public Library: a brief tour through 125 years of history) viewed online August 22, 2018; Educational film catalog 1940-1941 (published 1942), p. 33, viewed online August 22, 2018 via Internet Archive; National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site (Preserved films), viewed August 22, 2018. Photographed by Sy Wexler. Photographed in Montclair, New Jersey, primarily at the original Montclair Free Public Library building on 73 Church Street. n-us-nj Montclair Public Library (Montclair, N.J.) Libraries New Jersey Montclair Library users New Jersey Montclair http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.02447820 Quigley, Margery Closey, 1886-1968 AVCMS (DLC) 2447820 2018600213 hdl:loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.02447820 aacr amim DLC 180822 20250607091136.6 20641250 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)