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_/* Advancement in the theory and practice of motion picture engineering and "^ the allied arts and sciences, the standardization of the mechanisms and practices employed therein, and the maintenance of a high professional standing among its members.
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— from Constitution and By Laws of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
W. C. PORTER Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Company, President.
R. S. BURNAP Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Company, Secretary.
H. T. COWI.1M. Eastman Kodak Company, Secretary and member of Reception Committee.
a surprisingly large number actually look for wide film standardization to issue as a result of efforts of the Society at this meeting in Toronto.
This, of course, the Society cannot accomplish, nor would its members attempt such an undertaking;— because that is outside the province of the Society. However, the suggestion coming from ranks outside the Society but from within the industry with which it is concerned, pays a high compliment to the organization.
The Society serves its full purpose when it functions as an agency for the dissemination of technical information imparted by those whose accomplishments and backgrounds establish them as authorities on the subjects they discuss.
A glance at the program of Papers to be presented at the Fall Meeting is sufficient to assure the industry that the S. M. P. E. meeting in Toronto will be fruitful of much that will enlighten its workers on subjects of absorbing interest.
The subjects of leading importance in the industry today, sound and wide film, are prominently represented in the program of discussions that will occupy the engineers and technicians who gather at that convention. Their Papers will command a popular interest perhaps never approached in the past history of the Society.
Thus, owing to conditions which have been brought about by the Society itself through accomplishments since its foundation in 1916 — accomplishments which have won the utmost respect and admiration of the industry — and new developments which increasingly stress the technical side of motion pictures, the S. M. P. E. convenes for its Fall Meeting of 1929 with a large and most interested gallery giving strict attention to its transactions. Under the circumstances which surround the Meeting, the Toronto convention truly is the most important that has been held by the S. M. 1'. E. since its inception.
The industry, as never before is alive to Society's importance — appreciates the value of its contributions to the progress of the Motion Picture — and sincerely tfishes it to succeed and prosper in the expanded ami enlarged undertakings to which the organization is applying its great resources in talent, learning and ability.
W. C. KLNZMANN National Carbon Company. Inc.. Chairman of the Convention Committee
M. \»\ PALMER Paramount Famous L a s k y Corporation, member of the Convention Committee.
P. A. MCGLIRE
International Projector
Corporation. Chairman
Publicity Committee.