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BRITISH KINEMATOGRAPHY
VOLUME 21 No. 1
JULY, 1952
CONTENTS
The Third Annual Convention -----..__.
Newly Elected Hon. Treasurer and Members of Council ......
The Presidential Address LESLIE KNOPP, M.B.E., Ph.D., M.Sc, M.I.N.A. (Fellow)
Magnetic Sound on 16mm. Edge-Coated Film : A Short Review of a Current Trend
Book Reviews
The Council ------------
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BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
^EMBERS may not be aware that the British StanI ■ dards Institution was initiated in 1901 as the Engineering Standards Committee, changing its name in 1918 to the British Engineering Standards Association. In 1929 a Royal Charter was granted and the scope of the Association's work was widened to embrace the chemical and building industries in addition to the engineering industry. To give expression to this extended scope, the name of the organisation was changed to the " British Standards Institution " in 1931.
At the present time there are nearly 2,300 committees operating under the aegis of four Divisional Councils, the latter covering the fields of engineering, chemistry, building and textiles, respectively. Last year 3,337 committee meetings were held and the number of committee members is nearly 14,000.
Under each Divisional Council there are a number of Industry Standards Committees, and under the Engineering Divisional Council is the Kinematograph Industry Standards Committee, which was appointed in 1936, "To direct the work of the Institution regarding the preparation of standards in the field of kinematography." The British Kinematograph
Society from the beginning has played a prominent part in the formation of committees concerned with motion picture standards.
The Cinematograph Industry Standards Committee operates through a number of Technical Committees carrying out the work concerned with motion picture films, kinematograph release prints, kinematograph electrical equipment, projection room equipment, inflammability of films, exciter lamps, screen luminance, 16mm. sound and picture projectors, 35mm. sound and picture projectors, lenses for 35mm. kine-projectors, standard forms for kinematography, lenses for substandard kine-projectors, kinematograph film processing and processing equipment.
Each Technical Committee has a number of SubCommittees and in all there are approximately 40 Committees concerned with the drafting of standards relating to kinematography.
At the moment of writing, the President of The British Kinematograph Society is representing the British Standards Institution at an International Standards Organisation meeting in New York on the matter of International Motion Picture Standards.
I. D. Wratten.
BRITISH KINEMATOGRAPHY, the Journal of the British Kinematograph Society, is published monthly. Price 5s. per issue (5s. 2d. including postage), annual subscription £2 17s. 6d. including postage.
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