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of whom are now also exhibitors, fully realize that the future success of their business lies to a great extent in the hands of the technician and are welcoming advice from scientific societies and the various universities.
The Society of Motion Picture Engineers has contributed in no small way to the successful accomplishment of this transition. Our Transactions have contained the first published accounts of the various systems of sound recording and reproducing. These papers and the accompanying discussions have not only been a means of educating the motion picture technician but have served as a stimulus for new ideas.
With this new order of events, the Board of Governors of the Society realized that by retaining the existing method of publication, the Society would not be rendering a maximum service to the industry. In many cases, the Transactions have not been issued until four or five months after the conventions and, owing to the fact that the "transactions" of a society are, strictly speaking, a record of the proceedings at the society's meetings, it has not been possible to publish the many valuable technical papers and articles which have appeared from time to time in the foreign press and other scientific journals at home. Valuable technical information is being recorded by the Deutsche Kinotechnische Gesellschaft in the Kinotechnik, by the Societe Francaise de Photographic in the bulletin of the society, and by the Royal Photographic Society in their journal.
It has long been the dream of the Board of Governors to publish a monthly journal and this dream has finally been realized in this the first issue of the JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE ENGINEERS. The planning of this was largely a result of the efforts of the Journal Committee under the chairmanship of Past President L. A. Jones, whose report is presented elsewhere in this issue. Mr. Jones has also consented to act as temporary editor until a permanent editor is appointed. The editor will be assisted by a Board of Associate Editors but the general policy of the JOURNAL will be determined by the Journal Committee which, in turn, is responsible to the Board of Governors. By means of this new mouthpiece, a minimum of time will elapse before the technical papers presented at the conventions are available, while the reader will be kept more closely in touch with progress in the motion picture engineering field both at home and abroad. Moreover, since the JOURNAL is