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Film Description
Not by Books Alone (1945)
Sponsor: Rochester Public Library. Production Co.: Social Documentary Films. Director: Margaret Cussler. Camera: Mary L. de Give. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 22 minutes.
Documentary sponsored by the Rochester Public Library illustrating the range of community services offered by public libraries. Not by Books Alone shows how libraries advance education, provide recreational opportunities, help job seekers, and promote good citizenship.
Note: The film was translated into several languages and shown at UNESCO conferences in Paris and Mexico City. Produced in Kodachrome.
Resources
Educational Film Guide (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1949), 318; Margaret Cussler, Not by a Long Shot: Adventures of a Documentary Film Producer (New York: Exposition Press, 1951), 107–43; Joseph W. Barnes and Robert W. Barnes, “From Books to Multimedia: A History of the Reynolds Library and the Reynolds Audio-Visual Department of the Rochester Public Library,” Rochester History 36 (Oct. 1974): 24.