The almanac on this stand has a completely blank cover, which puzzles visitors until the rule is explained: the cover advertises nothing because the book is not for sale, not for readers and not an issue of anything. Inside, the opposite rule holds — the tables are written in full, five exact entries per character, because a table that cannot be read cannot be followed.
That split — blank outside, exact inside — is the studio’s whole filing philosophy. Production rests private in each maker’s account; the gallery shows only what a maker deliberately published. Decoration is kept where decoration belongs, on the changing line of a brief, and documentation is kept where it belongs, on the card, in plain words that can be checked in a frame.
Judging follows the split as well. A frame is first read as a table entry — does it match the ephemeris card, line by line? Only frames that pass as entries are then admired as pictures, and only those are repaired, swapped or upscaled.
Keep the cover blank and the tables full. An almanac honest about which of its pages are which keeps a studio honest about the same thing.