Thoroughly revised and updated for 2005! Includes a new chapter on the best special edition DVDs and a new chapter on finding hidden easter egg features.

This manual is published for the user of maintenance personnel responsible for direct and general support maintenance of the Decontaminating Apparatus, Power-Driven, Skid-Mounted, Multipurpose, Nonintegral 500-Gallon ABC-M12A1. It covers maintenance for the pump and tank unit assemblies only and provides detailed information on the parts and tools necessary to perform this type of maintenance.

This study of early sound shorts begins with an explanation of the development of sound motion pictures in Hollywood by such influential companies as Warner Bros. and Fox, with an emphasis on short subjects, leading up to the first few months when all of the major studios were capable of producing them. The next chapters discuss the impact on other mass entertainments, the development of audible news reels and other non-fiction shorts, as well as the origins of animated sound subjects. A comprehensive list of pre-1932 American-made shorts completes the volume.