Houdini
Theater Playbills and Programs
Sound Recordings |
Motion
Pictures
English
Playscripts
Yiddish
Playscripts |
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
Total file-space for digital reproductions: 3 Gbytes
Documents | Archival page images (printing quality) | Service page images (page-turning) |
Marker | Filename repeats identifier followed by two digits for page number with extension ".tif" | Filename repeats identifier followed by two digits for page number with extension ".gif" |
Formats | TIFF Group IV | GIF |
Tonal resolution | 1 bit | 4 bit |
Spatial
resolution (approx) |
300 dpi | 50 dpi |
Quantity (approx) | 15,554 pages | 15,554 pages |
File size | 20-50 Kbytes | 10-40 Kbytes |
Samples | Sample printing | Sample page-turning |
Photographs (Houdini) |
Archival image | Service image | Inline thumbnail | Additional thumbnail |
Marker | Filename ends "u" | Filename ends "r" | Filename ends "t" | Filename ends "t" |
Formats | TIFF uncompressed | JPEG/JFIF | GIF | TIFF |
Tonal resolution (color) | 24 bit | 24 bit | 8 bit | 8 bit |
Tonal resolution (grayscale) | 8 bit | 8 bit | 8 bit | 8 bit |
Spatial
resolution (approx) |
1000x700 pixels | 1000x700 pixels | 100x150 pixels | 100x150 pixels |
Quantity (approx) | 143 | 143 | 143 | 143 |
File size (color) | 5-7 Mbytes | 50-130 Kbytes | 15-18 Kbytes | 25-35 Kbytes |
File size (grayscale) | 140-200 Kbytes | 20-35 Kbytes | 15-20 Kbytes | 20 Kbytes |
Sample | Sample archival | Sample service | Sample thumbnail | Sample thumbnail |
Motion Pictures | Service file | Service file | Inline
thumbnail (still image) |
Marker | Filename extension ".mpg" | Filename extension ".mov" | Filename ends "t" |
Formats | MPEG-1 | QuickTime | GIF |
Data rate | ca. 1.2 Mbits/sec | ca. 640 Kbits/sec | 8 bit |
Image size | 320x240 pixels | 160x120 pixels | 300x100 pixels |
Frame rate | 30 fps | 10-15 fps | n/a |
Color depth | n/a | 24 bits | 8 bits |
File size | 6-31 Mbytes | 3-18 Mbytes | 90 Kbytes |
Quantity | 69 | 69 | 61 |
Sample | Sample MPEG | Sample QuickTime | Sample thumbnail |
Sound Recordings | Service audio | Service audio |
Marker | Filename extensions ".ram" and ".ra" | Filename extension ".wav" |
Formats | RealAudio | WAVE |
Sample rate | n/a | 22.05 kHz |
Word length | n/a | 16 bit |
Channels | mono | mono |
Modem setting | 14.4 Kbps | n/a |
File size | 200-271 Kbytes (.ra) 1 Kbyte (.ram -- for RealAudio metadata) | 9-12 Mbytes |
Quantity | 10 | 10 |
Sample | Sample RealAudio | Sample WAV |
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