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THE JOURNAL OF THE
BRITISH KINEMATOGRAPH SOCIETY
Vol. 10. No. I. JANUARY and FEBRUARY, 1947
Presidential Address
FIVE-YEAR PLAN OF PROGRESS
OF THE
BRITISH KINEMATOGRAPH SOCIETY
At the meeting of the Society, held on 15th January, 1947, the President, Mr. I. D. Wratten, F.R.P.S. (Fellow) read the following document prepared by the Council.
The paper which followed, " Fundamentals of Latent Image Formation," by Dr. W. F. Berg, will be printed in a later issue.
IN view of the new Constitution of the Society, now legalised after two years' work, the Council has decided that the present is an opportune time for the preparation of a plan for. future progress extending over the next five years. With this object, it instructed the various Committees of the Society to submit detailed proposals which are here correlated for the information of interested parties.
1. Membership
The status of a Society is no higher than that of its principal membership. Under the terms of the new Constitution, the Council is required to restrict the Corporate Membership to persons of technical eminence and good standing in the industry.
Election to the Corporate Membership will, therefore, be a jealously guarded privilege. The Associateship, on the other hand, is open to any technician who has been engaged for two years in the industry.
In the field of film production it is the aim of the Membership Committee to^ secure as a Corporate Member every technician whose name appears on the credit titles of British films. Other sections of the industry are already well represented in the Society.
Members have henceforth the opportunity of qualifying for a still higher status, that of the Fellowship. The first fifteen Fellows were in accordance with the Constitution recently elected by the Membership of the Society. A proposal which it is felt will establish the status of the British technician and at the same time increase still further the national spirit of British production is that all technicians so qualified should be encouraged to use the initials F.B.K.S. on credit titles.
2. Lecture Programme
In none of its many fields of activity has the work of the Society shown a greater increase than in the number of meetings arranged. Including the main Society papers, Divisional meetings and those of the two provincial sections, no fewer than fortytwo papers have been arranged during the 1946-47 session, in addition to six meetings arranged jointly with the Association of Cine-Technicians, which latter are to be repeated at a number of studios, making an estimated total of no fewer than sixty-six meetings during the session. This compares with eleven meetings only during the 1938-39 session. The Council submits that this forms a valuable part of the educational work of the Society.
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