THEN for the films exported to other countries, you had to do a completely different set FOR EACH COUNTRY!!! And any rereleases for that country. An exhaustive amount of material for documentation! The current academic and archival systems are not able to record or research these massive and specialized areas of documentation. We have spent the past 20 years developing methods and systems that can. We truly believe that film accessories are the key to reconstructing a lot of the lost film history. We have taken a reverse approach of documentation and reconstruction to try to preserve these areas that are so important to international film heritage. We began researching in 1995 and released the first reference book on the industry in 1997. Everything began to come together when we created the only research database dedicated to film accessories in 2006. Our Movie Poster Data Base has over 100,000 posters shown and is continuously generating tremendous amounts of compiled information that has never been available before. We have documented previously unknown areas such as our research on production codes with over 50,000 codes to help identify unknown movie stills; reconstruction of National Screen Service history with over 25,000 poster accounting codes and over 18,000 trailer codes; reconstruction of film industry lithographers with over 10,000 litho plate numbers used for dating purposes, reconstruction of movie poster artists filmographies with thousands of poster artists around the world including their signatures and lists of works; etc. As we continue to bridge the gap between the academic, commercial and collecting communities, we hope this edition is a starting point for another major area to help establish a base to cross reference, expand the scope and continue to make our dating process more accurate. ed and Susan Poole Film Accessory Researchers