frame in succession in the same manner as in the foregoing operations of writing on a film for the second third and fourth frames are performed namely the total number of exposed frames 1 4 2 4 3 4 and 4 4 from the first film f for the same patient and their photographing order are recorded film f thus written thereon is either sent to automatic processing machine 5 directly connected or stored in receive magazine 16 and then sent to automatic processing machine 5 installed separately to be processed and taken out to film storing portion 50 to be stored therein accordingly an operator can sort films easily by discriminating patients from a plurality of films f stored by means of patient id 65 overwritten in images even when films f are out of order photographing order for them can easily be cleared which is an advantageous point when switching of patients is conducted by an input of a patient name or patient id its contents can be written on input patient id recording area 66 in this case letters used for writing are greater than those used for judging a patient name by observing patient id 65 overwritten in images and a writing position is fixed therefore patients can be discriminated more easily as stated above there.