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wn™ this issue, Agfa Motion W Picture Topics enters its third year of publication. The first issue appeared in February 1937. This is the sixteenth issue published since
then. That first issue contained but half as many pages as this, reproduced but a small fraction as many photographs, had fewer and shorter articles, and went to about half as many
readers as does this. In view of such evidence, we feel we can believe the many friends who have repeatedly
told us that the magazine was steadily changing for the better with each
issue.
But in one thing it has not changed. That first issue carried an Editorial setting forth the magazine's policy. That was — and is — to “continually strive to be individual, and not just another publication competing with the many other excellent trade and technical journals already appearing,” and instead to “constructively discuss . . . all matters pertaining to the use of Agfa motion picture film . . . and to provide a forum for threshing out new problems constantly arising from tbe ever-changing conditions in the varied processes of film production.”
We hope we have succeeded in this. Our extremely cordial relations with existing trade and technical papers proves our original contention that such a paper as this need not con
Hict with the industry’s established journals. The many compliments received. and the widespread interest shown in our journal indicates that we are, in publishing this magazine, serving the industry and its technical people in a constructive way.
So we begin our third year of publication with a repitition of this original pledge, and repeat as well the request made in that first issue — that our readers give us their sincere opinions of what we are doing — critical as well as favorable-and any suggestions which the) may feel will help to make Agfa Motion Picture Topics more useful and interesting.
Agfa Motion Picture Topics takes pleasure in extending to John Arnold, the newly-elected President of the American Society of Cinematographers. its warmest congratulations. Leader of the organization from 1931 to 1937. Arnold returns to the Presidency backed by universal confidence inspired by his proven leadership.
To Ray June, the Society’s new First Vice-President. Teddy Tetzlaff, Second Vice-President. Joseph Valentine, Third Vice-President, and Frank B. Good, Secretary-Treasurer, we also offer our congratulations. Finder their guidance and that of the Society’s Board of Governors, which counts as new members Charles G. Clarke and Robert DeGrasse, the A.S.C. seems assured of continued growth in stature and in service to the camera profession.
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