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472 Transactions of S.M.P.E., Vol. XIII, No. 38, 1929
Lewis Milestone, first award for directing the comedy picture ^ ' Tavo Arabian Knights. ' '
Ben Hecht, first award for writing the original story ''Underworld."
Benjamin Glazer, first award for adaptation of ''Seventh Heaven."
Joseph Farnham, first award for title waiting.
Charles Rosher and Karl Struss first awards for cinematography of "Sunrise."
William C. Menzies first award for art direction ' ' The Tempest ' ' and "The Dove."
Roy Pomeroy first aw^ard for engineering effects in "Wings."
Paramount-Famons-Lasky Corporation first award for production of the most outstanding picture — ' ' Wings. ' '
The Fox Company first award for production of most unique and artistic picture "Sunrise."
Special First Award to Warner Bros, for producing ' ' The Jazz Singer," the pioneer outstanding talking picture.
Special First Award to Charles Chaplin for writing, acting, directing and producing ' ' The Circus. ' '
Besides these first awards twenty honorable mentions have been awarded.
The foregoing awards will be formally presented to the winners at the second anniversary dinner to be given by the Academy May 16, 1929.
The Academy was honored \>j an invitation from Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University, now Secretary of the Literior, to participate in the University Ceremonials on May 8 commemorating ^ the first photographing of horses in motion which was successfully accomplished through the efforts of Senator Stanford and Eadw^eard Muybridge fifty years ago.
The Academy's contributions to this memorable celebration are as follows: a delegation of prominent Academy members, including Louis B. Mayer, William de Mille, Conrad Nagel and others ; a considerable quantity of interesting material for exhibition in the College Museum; a talking picture of the President of the University, recorded by the Fox Company and reproduced as a part