Abstract: In an information recording medium having an air-sandwich structure comprising two disc-shaped substrates opposed to each other at a given space by interposing therebetween a ring-shaped inner spacer and a ring-shaped outer spacer and a recording layer for writing and/or reading information with laser beam which is provided on the inner surface of at least one substrate, the improvement in which at least one spacer is an adhesive-retainable spacer comprising a ring portion of protecting circumferences of the substrates and a protruding ring portion of arranging the two substrates apart, the latter ring portion protruding from a side of the protective ring portion and comprising a front portion for defining the space between the substrates and a stem portion being thinner than the front portion for retaining an adhesive, whereby an excessive adhesive or a volatile material of the adhesive is discharged through a space between the substrate and the stem portion of the protruding ring portion.

Abstract: A process for producing a magnetic recording material comprising a support having a thin metal film layer provided thereon is described, the process comprising the steps of (1) coating a thin magnetic metal film having a water contact angle of at least 25.degree. with a polymer solution to form a thin polymer layer, drying the thin polymer layer, and providing a lubricant on the thin polymer layer, or (2) coating the thin magnetic metal film with a lubricant-containing polymer solution to form a lubricant-containing polymer layer, and drying the lubricant-containing polymer layer.

Abstract: A process for producing a cellulose ester support is described which comprises producing said support from an organic solvent solution of a cellulose ester containing 30 ppm or less alkaline earth metal.

Abstract: A subbing process for a photographic light-sensitive material is described comprising applying a polymer latex to a plastic film base, wherein said polymer is a copolymer composed of (1) a diolefin monomer, (2) at least one monovinyl monomer, and (3) at least one monomer having two or more vinyl groups, acryloyl groups, methacryloyl groups, or allyl groups excepting the diolefin monomer, and having a gel fraction of the polymer in the latex is from 50% to 95% by weight.

Abstract: A process for forming a subbing layer in photographic sensitive materials which comprises applying an aqueous dispersion of a copolymer consisting of at least one diolefin monomer and one or more vinyl monomers to a plastic film base in which the gel fraction of the copolymer in said aqueous dispersion is about 80% by weight or less.