British Kinematography (1951)

BRITISH KINEMATOGRAPHY VOLUME 18, No. 3 MARCH, 1951 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS THE Membership Committee has frequently experienced difficulty in determining the acceptance of applications for membership of the Society because candidates have not supplied sufficient information. In some cases there has been a delay until the Committee has obtained the necessary supporting particulars and in others applicants have been placed in lower categories because their higher qualifications have not been disclosed. To overcome these difficulties the Council has approved a new application form for membership which the Committee has proposed and it will be brought into use immediately the stock of old forms has been exhausted. Thenewform will require more detailed particulars of the applicant's technical training, experience and qualifications and the candidate's proposer and seconder will both be required to confirm from personal knowledge the accuracy of the information. In order to avoid delays or the relegation of a candidate [to a lower category of membership, proposers and seconders are requested to familiarise themselveswith the regulation concerning membership which will be printed on the form in order to ensure that the applicant complies with the requirements of the grade to which he seeks admission. It is hardly necessary to point out that a responsibility rests upon proposers and seconders that their support should be given only to those candidates whom they consider comply with these requirements and whose membership will reflect credit upon the Society. In some cases the Committee has found it difficult accurately to appraise the applicant's technical ability, and therefore the form requires the names and addresses of two persons to whom reference can be made in cases of doubt, or where fuller information is required. Finally, it may be mentioned that the use of a special transfer form will be discontinued. The application form will be used also for cases of transfer by completing those parts of the form indicated. CONTENTS Modern Trends in Art Direction M. J. MORAHAN Book Review The Film in Research R. McV. WESTON, M.A., F.R.P.S. (Member) Preferred Methods of Producing Films for 16mm. Release Technical Abstracts From the Overseas Press The Council Personal News of Members Page 76 83 84 93 97 98 100 100 BRITISH KINEMATOGRAPHY, the Journal of the British Kinematograph Society, is published monthly, price 3s. per issue (3s. 2d. including postage), annual subscription 37s. 6d. including postage. Publication in this Journal does not necessarily imply that the Council endorses the views of authors. Reprinting is permitted, subject to due acknowledgment being made to British Kinematography and to the author. Editor: R. HOWARD CRICKS, F.B.K.S., F.R.P.S. Hon. Consulting Editor : GEOFFREY PARR, M.I.E.E.. F.B.K.S.