Abstract: In a method of severing developed photographic film strips into film sections at a severing station and immediately mounting same in slide frames which are spread open ready to receive them and which are conveyed away from the severing station, each severed film section is guided along an edge which is oblique with respect to the conveying direction of the slide frames. An apparatus for performing this method comprises severing means for the strip, a guide path for the slide frames and a guide rail with an oblique guide edge arranged downstream of the severing means to present a leading guide edge portion which extends into the gap between the spread-open slide frame portions.

Abstract: The slide frames consist of plastic material and are supplied ready for use. The film is fed in steps to a cutting device for severing the leading film section. The film section severed by the cutting device is gripped in the cutting station by a plierlike gripping device and in this position, without being pivotally moved through 180.degree., is inserted as far as possible for projection into the internal space of a frame, which is held ready in an expanded or unfolded position. The film section is held in this position for projection until the expanded or unfolded frame part is released. Two protective strips of transparent material, such as polycarbonate, are fed on respective sides of the film strip before the cutting device. The protective strips have for each feeding step at least one perforation hole, which is aligned with a perforation hole of the film strip. The two protective strips sandwiching the film strip are subjected to the same process steps as the film strip in unison therewith.

Abstract: Photographic transparencies are successively severed from the leading end of film strip by means of an oscillatory knife and simultaneously guided by surfaces on the knife to a mounting station at which the transparencies are inserted in slide frames.