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Wf|TH this issue, Agfa Motion W Picture Topics commences its fourth year of publication. And on this occasion, we feel it only proper to extend to our ever-widening circle of friends and readers throughout the industry our sincerest appreciation for the support and encouragement they have given our little magazine.
When this magazine was first planned. there were those who wondered if people in this busy industry would take the time to notice — much less read — another technical magazine, and one provided for them freely by a manufacturer of film. But those of us who have shaped and carried on the editorial policies of this journal were confident that, expressing as it does the policies of service and quality that characterize the AgfaAnsco organization, it would find a welcome. We have been justifiably confident, too. that it could serve its own distinctive purpose, without encroaching on the territories of any existing publications.
Time has justified both of these opinions. At regular intervals we have found it necessary to increase the number of copies printed. Still, almost daily, we here in Hollywood and our associates in New York are approached by people active in the industry with a request that they, too, be allowed to receive the magazine. Other evidence, too, clearly proves the fact that our journal is read and liked by cinematographers, technicians, executives and directors wher
ever on this continent motion pictures are made. Even, we find, in places and by people we had never known to be cinematically active.
In the same way, the cordiality of our relations with the industry’s established technical and trade journals has been gratifying. There have been friendly interchanges of news, pictures, and other favors in a way that could not be possible unless genuinely friendly relations and mutual respect existed.
Theref ore we want to open our fourth year with a sincere "thank you" to all our many friends, and with the repeated assurance that we will constantly strive to make this magazine of continued interest and benefit to all who read it.
A ATT hen truly great achievements are honored by a sincere and widespread tribute, nothing can be added by any printed comment. This year’s Academy Awards are like that, and nothing that we or any other editorial writer might say could add to the fact that in no previous year has the industry paid such spontaneous tribute to really great achievements, nor done so with such complete freedom from political, national or racial prejudice.
But we would like to add our few words of congratulation to the men who received premier honors in our own specialized field of photographic achievement. Competition in the fields of both monochrome and color cinematography this year was unusually
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