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and its life is shortened by having so many as four perforations to each picture. The new standard with three perforations to each picture length would seem to be a logical improvement.
In conclusion and in simple justice to the firm which I represent, some pertinent facts should be made public.
Since the adoption of the new standard at your last meeting, some adverse criticisms have been launched by parties who pretend to see in the new standard a menace to their own self interests.
To an unprejudiced judge, it would seem that the only firm really entitled to complain of the adoption of the new standard would be the one that I represent, in that such adoption virtually wipes out and destroys in one instant a practical monopoly in a certain field, which had existed for a number of years. Your action in adopting the new standard was totally unexpected to us, and in fact it was nearly two months after its adoption before we ascertained definitely that it corresponded sufficiently to our product to take away the exclusive use of our most valuable feature.
Notwithstanding this blow to our own interests, and realizing broadly that the welfare of the industry as a whole infinitely exceeded that of any individual manufacturer, we at once communicated with the officers of your society and later with several of the prominent manufacturers of portable projectors, expressing our willingness to lend our co-operation in every way possible to those interested in the adoption of the new standard.
We herewith publicly offer to and through your Society of Motion Picture Engineers, all the facilities of our organization for the use of any other manufacturer of portable projectors.
Our Technical Department will furnish any dimensions or data as to the sizes of sprockets, film gates, aperture masks, etc., which our own rather extensive experience has enabled us to collect. Our Manufacturing Department will furnish to any other manufacturer any parts which may be of assistance to him in the more speedy adoption of the new standard than would be otherwise possible if each manufacturer were necessarily compelled to make such parts for himself.
We will perforate Eastman narrow-width, slow-burning stock with the new standard perforation for any film manufacturer that desires it.
Finally, our Laboratory and those of our Agencies will make reproductions from standard negatives or positives to the new narrow standard for any users of the new standard portable projectors.
Discussion
After Mr. Cook's paper, Mr. De Vry contributed some discussion to show that the use of non-flam stock for large standard film would make for safer general conditions, and would be more practical than to have two standards — one flam film and one non-flam film standard. He used as the basis of his remarks, the experience in France, and said that if interest enough were shown in the United States, it would be possible to obtain non-flam stock in quantities, as good as the present flam film.
Mr. Cook stated that the law passed in France, referred to by Mr.