British Kinematography (1953)

L8 Vol. 22, No. 1 THE COUNCIL Summary of the meeting held on November 5, 1952, at 16 i Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.C.2. Present : Mr. L. Knopp (President) in the Chair, and Messrs. B. Honri ( Vice-President), R. J. T. Brown (Hon. Secretary), H. S. Hind (Deputy Vice-President), G. J. Craig, F. S. Hawkins, T. W. Howard, N. Leevers and S. A. Stevens. In attendance : Miss J. Poynton (Secretary). COMMITTEE REPORTS Membership Committee . elected : The following are David Leonard Deutsch (Student), Group Three, Ltd., Southall Studios, Southall, Middlesex. John E. Byrd (Associate), 47 Brunswick Gardens, London, W.8. Edward Flanders Cutlack (Associate), George Humphries & Co. Ltd., 71-77 Whitfield Street, W.l. Evan Llewelyn Phillips (Member), British Broadcasting Corporation, London, W.l. William Joseph Yeo (Member), Pan-African Films Ltd., Tudor House, Bree Street, Capetown. Gerald Myles WoollerJennings (Member), SoundServices, Ltd., 269 Kingston Road, S.W.I 9. Leonard Joseph Wilson (Member), Circuits Management Association, Ltd., 5 Bainbridge Street, W.l. Albert Cecil Hugh (Member), Clarks Cereal Products Ltd., Blackbourne Road, Dagenham, Essex. Leo Wilkins (Associate), 72 Crummock Gardens, Colindale, N.W.9. The following is transferred from Associateship to Corporate Membership : Henry Court, Odeon Cinema, Haverstock Hill, N.W.3. Report received and adopted. Education Committee. publish the lectures by Sensitometry. Report received and adopted. •Steps are being taken to Mr. I. B. M. Lomas on Television Division. — It is hoped to arrange a further visit to Lime Grove Studios in the Autumn of 1953. Report received and adopted. Theatre Division.— Mr. L. W. J. Henton, until recently Heating and Ventilating Engineer at the Circuits Management Association, Ltd., has been awarded the Hon. Membership of the Society. A Course of Study on the care and maintenance of projection equipment, including instruction on optics, carbons and presentation, will probably be arranged in various provincial centres in the 1953/54 Session. Report received and adopted. -The following terms of Standards Committee.reference are approved : 1. To review draft British standards circulated for comment and to prepare comments for transmission to the B.S.I. In this connection to note any comments made by individual members of the Society and to consider whether such individual comments should be endorsed as Society comments or sent forward as the comments of an individual member. 2. To consider what standardization projects would be of advantage to the cinematograph industry and make recommendations to the B.S.I, for the preparation of appropriate standards. 3. To receive periodically reports from the liaison B.S.I, representative on the work of the B.S.I. Committees. Report received and adopted. The proceedings then terminated. Summary of the meeting held on December 3, 1952, at 164 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.C.2. Present : Mr. L. Knopp (President), in the Chair, and Messrs. R. J. T. Brown (Hon. Secretary), H. S. Hind (Deputy Vice-President), A. W. Watkins (Past President), G. J. Craig, T. W. Howard, N. Leevers, S. A. Stevens and D. Ward. In attendance : Miss J. Poynton (Secretary). Apologies for absence : Apologies for absence were received from the Vice-President, the Hon. Treasurer and Messrs. F. S. Hawkins and T. M. C. Lance. Hon. Membership : It is announced with pleasure that Mr. H. L. Griffiths, Secretary to the Cinematograph Committees of the British Standards Institution, has been awarded the Hon. Membership of the Society. R.P.S. Centenary : On the 20th January, 1953, the 100th birthday of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, the President, Dr. Knopp, presents the congratulations of the Society in the form of a written address. A silver inkstand will also be presented as a token of the high esteem in which the R.P.S. is held. Tape Recorder : With much appreciation it is recorded that a Gaumont-Kalee " Teltape " Recorder, Type 799, has been presented to the Society on permanent loan.