b'NSS was also expanding from only handling trailers and specialty accessories to handling the FULL LINE of accessories. But also remember that the full line exclusive contracts had only been signed at this time with Paramount and RKO. NOTICE: when you look down the source code column for the code P, (which means that the NSS number was taken off of the poster) the ONLY NSS codes that we have found actually ON the posters during 1940 and 1941 were from Paramount and RKO. The other numbers seemed to have been for trailers and print jobs. WE placed the NSS number in the poster format for those years so it would fit into the book. ALSO, in all of this chaos, we found that they were experimenting with the number system, NOT in the inventory logs, but on the posters themselves (which is why it is so important to COMBINE all of the logs). Experiment 1One experiment that was done only in these 2 years was the adding of a number BETWEEN the year and the slash (/). i.e.Prairie Law 406/264 with the 6 added in.NOTICE: these are only on the posters and NOT in any logs. Also notice that on the title Arise My Love, we found posters with 408/476 and posters with 4011/476. From this we came to the conclusion that they were attempting to mark the scheduled release date by MONTH. NOTICE: A. There are NO numbers added in the early numbers of 1940. The earliest number that we have found is 5 (May) which would fit with the exchanges being acquired in February, and requiring several additional months for set up time. B. The numbers only go up to 12C. In 1941, there are numbers starting over with 1. But, with the constant changes to release schedules and the addition of other studios, it seems this experiment was abandoned in the middle of 1941, as the last addition we have found in 1941 was an 8. Experiment 2The other experiment that we noticed is that some releases in 1940 ONLY include 2 digits and a dash BEFORE the regular number, such as Tom Browns School Days 06-405-220. Since these are ONLY on the posters and not in any other logs, these same numbers ALSO have the numbers from the previous experiment indicating the month. If you look over the log, it quickly becomes apparent that the 2 prefix numbers form a pattern, with 05 being Paramount (the first studio signed), and 06 being RKO (the second studio signed). We believe that these 2 numbers were assigned because previous to 1940, when NSS started handling the posters for Paramount, NSS worked with four studios from 1937-1940 when NSS started handling specialty accessories (see the above section on The Takeover).This was abandoned in 1940 with the last number that we have found carrying the number 05-408-349, which was Mystery Sea Raider. If our assumption on the first experiment is correct, that would have placed the projected release in August of 1940.'