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May, 1930] MINUTES OF LONDON SECTION 579
LONDON SECTION SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE
ENGINEERS
Three general members' meetings and two executive meetings have been held between January 8th and February 24th. At the executive meetings arrangements for the first of a series of annual dinners was discussed and six new members, four active and two associate, were elected. Sir Oliver Lodge, world-famous scientist, will be the principal guest at the first annual dinner, April 10th.
A general members' meeting was held at the Royal Photographic Society, January 8th. The chairman of the Section, Mr. Rowson, presided. At this meeting a paper received from the Parent Society, entitled, "Some Practical Aspects of, and Recommendations on, Wide Film Standards" by A. G. Howell and J. A. Dubray, was read and elicited a lively discussion among members.
At the general members' meeting held at the Royal Photographic Society on January 27, 1930, with Mr. Arthur S. Newman, ViceChairman, presiding, two papers from the Parent Society were read: "A New Method of Blocking Out Splices in Sound Film" by J. I. Crabtree and C. E. Ives; and "Camera and Projector Apertures" by Lester Cowan. Arising out of the discussion following the first paper, it was decided to collect data from members of the Section as to the most satisfactory means for blocking out splices in use in Europe. In summing up the second paper, Mr. Newman said that the outstanding point in his mind was that this paper simply shouted the necessity for standardization which was so apparent in our particular industry.
At the general members' meeting held at the Royal Photographic Society, February 24th, with Mr. Rowson in the chair, an original paper on "Some Sound Problems" was read by Capt. A. D. G. West, late of the British Broadcasting Corporation and now of The Gramophone Company (H.M.V.). Capt. West dealt with the whole field of recording and reproducing as it affects talking motion pictures. He described several instruments which had been evolved for measuring reverberations, echoes, and harmonics, visually and photographically, and also dealt with various sound absorbent materials. A demonstration was given of how music and speech sound to the ear when the higher frequencies were cut off, and again when the higher frequencies were restored but the lower were cut off. Capt. West expressed the opinion that the artificial echo system, which he had developed while with the British Broadcasting Corporation, would be of value to the recording engineer of the talking picture.