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REVIEW AND FORECAST
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Next to the motion picture itself, music will continue to be the most outstanding unit on the varied program, and higher standards may be expected in the development of the auditory art in operation.
The motion picture has appealed to science as an instrument of great power. Motion study, the behavior of the slow process of growth of microbiology, the study of high speed mechanisms, and laboratory research, generally are making excellent use of the film. Science will increasingly use the cinema for record, study, discovery, and instruction. The National Bureau of Standards at Washington has made motion pictures an important adjunct in recording valuable information. Dr. George K. Burgess, Director of the Bureau, recently read a paper before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, reporting that : "New instruments developed primarily for Bureau research may be of interest to you — a precision sensitometer for plates and films ; equipments for precise colorimetry, photometry and radiometry; new cameras for special uses, one to photograph flying bullets in a millionth of a second, another to photograph projectiles from big guns, another for photographing the complete interior of corroded pipe; a research camera for developing photography through haze; and a target practice camera which locates in three dimensions each shot in naval gun practice. The Bureau's method of photographing the entire interior surface of a rifle barrel is also to be tried out for photographing the interior of the bronchial tubes in clinical cases."
The Society of Motion Picture Engineers maintains worldwide scrutiny of the technical work as it relates to the field. This association has caused such developments to be turned into practical use within the industry. It is a clearing house of scientific research, in which engineers are always endeavoring to discover better ways of doing things, with the result of improvements in exhibiting, as well as in the production of the product itself. Twice yearly the Progress Committee of the Society reports developments of importance. With the entire world to draw upon for data, this report is always fraught with interest.