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

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May, 1930] STANDARDS ADOPTED 551 all vital portions of the picture be composed within these limits; "Be it also resolved: That the committee further recommends that theaters which make a practice of reestablishing the full screen proportions from sound-on-film pictures do so by the use of an aperture whose size would be 0.600 by 0.800 inch on the basis of projection on the level, the horizontal center of the aperture coinciding with the horizontal center of the S. M. P. E. standard aperture."