MRIs: AACR2 Rule Interpretations

Revise 7.1C in contents to read:

7.1C. Media terms

Delete 7.1F, 7.1F1, 7.1F2.

Replace with:

Record noncast and cast credits in two separate notes (see 7.7).

Optionally:

Record the name of the responsible person of an auteur film as a statement of responsibility.

Example:

Watercolors / a film by David Oliveras.

[RDA is not explicit concerning moving all noncast credits from statement of responsibility to a note,
but some test records show this interpretation, resulting in a cleaner brief display.]

Delete second sentence.

Revise third line to read:

Enclose the media terms in square brackets.

Add as last example:

Wodehouse playhouse. Series 1

[Brendan O’Dowda singing ‘The mountains of Mourne,’ Dublin, 1992?]

(A YouTube video)

Revise 7.1C to read:

Revise first example to read:

Second edition .

Replace examples with:

Santa Barbara, California : Lionsgate

Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media Publishing, Inc.

Beverly Hills, California : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor],[2007?], ©2007

Note: Made in 1944.

Revise list to read:

Beta video

Blu-ray disc

DVD

DVD-HD

Flash Video

MPEG-4

streaming video

VHS /p>

Revise examples to read:

1 DVD

3 Blu-ray discs

4 VHS

1 streaming video

Delete second paragraph and example.

Replace second, third, fourth, and sixth examples with:

1 VHS (about 110 min.)

2 DVDs (120 min. each)

1 Blu-ray disc (about 200 min.)

1 DVD (45, 876 frames)

Revise to read:

7.5C3. Give sound or silent to indicate the presence or absence of a sound track. If a silent motion picture is known to be filmed at the speed of sound film, give silent at sound speed .

1 videoreel (15 min.) : sound

Revise to read:

7.5C4. Colour. Give colour or black & white as appropriate. Give black & white for a sepia print.

1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, black & white

Replace second and third examples with:

1 VHS (101 min.) : sound, colour with black & white sequence at the beginning and end

1 VHS (47 min.) : sound, black & white with two colour scenes

Revise example to read:

1 film reel (1 min., 17 sec.) : sound, colour, 25 fps

Revise examples to read:

1 film reel (12 min.) : sound, black & white ; 16 mm

1 film cassette (21 min.) : sound, colour ; standard 8 mm

2 film reels (about 30 min. each) : black & white ; 16-35 mm

Revise example to read:

1 videoreel (30 min.) : sound, black & white ; 13 mm*.

*Unlike sound carriers for which LC ususe in., LC follows RDA in using mm for video tapes.

Revise examples to read:

1 DVD (about 60 min.) : sound, colour ; 13 cm.

1 Blu-ray disc (38 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm

Revise examples to read:

1 film cassette (21 min.) : sound, colour ; standard 8 mm + 1 teacher’s guide

or 1 film cassette (21 min.) : sound, colour ; standard 8 mm + 1 volume (28 pages : illustrations, 22 cm)

2 film cassettes (30 min. each) : sound, colour ; standard 8 mm + 1 volume (35 pages ; 24 cm)

Revise fourth, seventh, and eighth examples to read:

(Mathematics for elementary school students. Whole numbers ; number 10)

(Images of the seventies, ISSN 7745-2251 ; number 22)

(Warner Bros. romance classics collection ; [number 1])

Reword the first sentence of Credits to read:

List persons and corporate bodies (other than cast) who have contributed to the artistic and/or technical production of a motion
pcture or video recording; the name of an auteur film given in the statement of responsibility may be repeated in order to record functions (see 7.1F).

Example:

Written and directed by David Oliveras.

Replace first and third examples with:

Distributed in the U.S. by: New York, N.Y. : Kino International.

First released in France.

Revise example to read:

Eighty min. of moving images and 2400 frames of still images

Revise second example to read:

Dolby stereophonic, monophonic compatible.

Revise example to read:

Issued also as Blu-ray disc.

Revise example to read:

Contents: part 1. The cause of liberty (24 min.) – part 2. The impossible war (25 min.)