Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

of black-and-white films and both producers and exhibitors needed something new to attract patrons to the theater. As one who richly deserves this high honor from our Society, Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus now receives the Samuel L. Warner Memorial Award, accepted on his behalf by Mr. Wadsworth Pohl, his associate." The citation prepared by the Committee, of which Glenn L. Dimmick is Chairman, was as follows: "No man, over the past 20 years, has so consistently contributed to the technical quality of motion pictures as Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus. Almost without exception, the biggest grossers since Gone With the Wind have been pictures made in 'Color by Technicolor.' Indeed, good color of any type, in the eyes of the public, is called Technicolor. It is today the standard by which other color processes are judged. Dr. Kalmus, over the years, has maintained the highest practicable color standards and has always recognized the value of research and engineering toward this end. While maintaining these standards of quality, the cost of not only release prints but set lighting costs have been reduced step by step as faster-type emulsions were made available to picture producers. During the last war, Technicolor's ability to 'blow up' the 16mm Kodachrome footage of the Armed Forces to 35mm film for showing to the public in theaters was a great aid to morale and public information in those critical times. If it had not been for the war and its retarding effect on civilian development, Technicolor's single-film Monopack would have been available sooner to supplant the three-negative process. Dr. Kalmus hoped as early as 1940 to bring it into wide use and its availability will undoubtedly be greater in the immediate future. "Technicolor's perfection in the last few years of the inbibition process of making top quality 16mm color prints in quantity at reasonable cost is a distinct contribution to the 16mm field. The quality of both picture and sound of these prints and the development of the techniques of making the separate sound negatives for mass production by the 35mm32mm method contributes a great deal to the excellence of the 16mm sound. "Dr. Kalmus, through his personal and active direction of his company, has been instrumental in creating the boxoffice truism that 'good color makes a good picture a still better picture.' "For further information on Dr. Kalmus, I refer to the article in the Saturday Evening Post of October 22, 1949, 'Mr. Technicolor,' by Frank J. Taylor. Dr. Kalmus was given the Society's Progress Medal for 1938 and the citation was presented on pages 556 to 560 of the December 1938 Journal." David Sarnoff Gold Medal Award Axel G. Jensen was presented the David Sarnoff Gold Medal Award "for his manifold contributions to the promulgating of monochrome and color television engineering standards, and for his work on the improvement of the quality of television pictures obtained from motion picture film." Pierre Mertz was Chairman of the Committee which made this citation: "Axel G. Jensen was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark, until coming to Columbia University in 1921 for graduate work. "His professional career began in 1922 when he joined what is now the Research Department of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Since 1938 he has been engaged in research work in television equipment and systems. In particular he has been responsible for the development of a high-quality testing link which, employing motion picture film, can be used as a research tool for the evaluation of methods and systems for television transmission, and of the influence of component elements on the transmission quality. As a part of this he has been in charge of work on a succession of test film scanners, culminating in a development which was presented before the Society last year. He has 539