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Relating to authorizing and providing for purchase by the State Board of Education of education films for the use and benefit of the public free school systems; providing for the establishment of a complete system for the distribution of such State-owned films to Film Depository Service-Centers, herein defined, pursuant to certain minimum standards herein prescribed and others to be established under rules and regulations of the State Board of Education; creating a State Film Committee and prescribing its duties; setting out the procedure for the creation, the functions and responsibilities of designated types of Film Depository Service-Centers subject to the approval of the State Board of Education; providing for financing the purchase of such State-owned films as an additional cost of the Minimum Foundation School Program to be paid out of the Foundation School Fund; providing for the current use and subsequent disposition of present State-owned films now serviced to school districts from the State Film Library in the State Department of Education; defining the function of the State Film Library in the transition to the Film Depository Service-Centers, system herein prescribed; providing for the subsequent partial disposition of presently owned State films to the Board of Regents of the State Teachers Colleges; providing a severability or savings clause.