Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

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464 PACIFIC COAST SECTION [j, s. M. p. K. G. E. Matthews (Progress). Member of the Kodak Research Laboratories and has assisted largely in the preparation of Progress Reports for the past two years. L. M. Townsend (Projection). Member of Sound Division of the ParamountFamous Lasky Corporation and formerly supervisor of projection at the Eastman Theater, Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Townsend has been a frequent contributor to the Transactions. W. Whitmore (Publicity). Member of Advertising and Publishing Departments of the Western Electric Company and formerly on the editorial staff of the the Exhibitors' Herald-World. E. P. Curtis (Solicitations). General Sales Manager of the Motion Picture Film Department, Eastman Kodak Company, Major of Air Corps, Reserve Section, and Ace of the World War. A. C. Hardy (Standards and Nomenclature}. Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A former staff member of the Kodak Research Laboratories and a contributor of many articles to the Transactions and JOURNAL. A . C. Downes (Studio Lighting) . A member of the Research Laboratory of the National Carbon Company, in charge of carbon electrode -and lamp research. Mr. Downes has contributed many articles to the Transactions. C. A. Egeler (Theater Lighting). Illuminating engineer of the National Lamp Works, Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Egeler has served previously as chairman of the Progress Committee. PACIFIC COAST SECTION, SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE ENGINEERS MINUTES OF MEETING February 27, 1930 The second meeting of this season, held in the new factory of the Mitchell Camera Corporation on Thursday, February 27, 1930, was called to order by Mr. Peter Mole, Chairman of The Pacific Coast Section, at 8:30 P.M. In calling the meeting to order Mr. Mole outlined briefly the broad aims and policies of the Society, in which it was not only nationally but internationally functioning, and pointed out the program of activity and work undertaken by the Pacific Coast Section for the current year. The increasing importance to the motion picture industry, of reliable engineering with a background of scientific research was explained with its particular importance to the Hollywood center of production. The substantial growth of the Pacific Coast Section with its membership of approximately eighty and an attendance at this meeting of more than a hundred representative engineers and technicians was the occasion for requesting an informal