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these problems is the shortage of paper supplies, but I am confident that our Journal Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. Geoffrey Parr, is fully competent to meet and in time to overcome these difficulties.
Lecture Programme
The lecture programme for this session covers a wide field and has been designed to accommodate the varied interests of our members. Including Divisional meetings, joint meetings with other vSocieties, and the programmes for our Manchester and Newcastle Sections, no less than forty-three meetings have been arranged for the present session.
I am happy to report that, through the generosity of a member of our Council, a silver medal has been offered for the best paper read at a Society or Divisional meeting during this session. The difficult decision of naming the winner of this award will rest with the Council. The donor of the medal asks to remain anonymous, but in any case, he receives our warm thanks for his generous and kindly gift.
Educational
Insofar as educational activities are concerned, the Society continues to take an active interest in the various schemes under consideration at the present time. The two-year course in kinematography at the Regent Street Polytechnic continues, as do the refresher courses designed for persons already in the industry.
vSince its earliest days, the Society has taken a great interest in educational work, and any scheme designed to raise the technical status of our industry may be sure of active and sympathetic consideration by the Education Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. A. G. D. West.
Library
The new library has taken shape and is now very definitely in being. This service to our members is well appreciated, judging by the use that is being made of it. Within the last few weeks a catalogue has become available. The Library owes its successful initiation to the energetic enthusiasm of Mr. Rex B. Hartley, and to the Library Committee over which he presides.
Standards
On the question of Standards, the B.K.S. is very actively associated with the British Standards Institution at the present time, and is adequately represented on all B.S.I. Committees. At the present moment there are in operation about fourteen B.S.I. Committees on motion picture subjects.
Divisions and Sections
As you know, the formation of Divisions of the Society some years ago was intended by the Council to further the interests of individual groups of members, who rightly wished for more meetings on subject matters restricted to a narrower field than it would be possible adequately to cover when considering the wide fields of activity of the industry as a whole.
The three B.K.S. Divisions : Theatre, Film Production, and Sub-standard, have been uniformly successful in arranging meetings to suit the requirements of their particular members, and I consider that the formation of these Divisions has proved to be a wise move.
The Manchester and Newcastle Sections are at the moment subsidiaries of the Theatre Division, but consideration is being given by Council to the possibility of forming Branches of the Society at these places. This matter