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Feb., 1932] PROGRESS COMMITTEE WORK 253
to future chairmen. The following notes represent a description of the plan of organization of the work of the Committee.
Membership of the Committee. — It is very important in selecting members of the Committee to choose men who are representative of various departments of the industry. Such phases of the industry should include: film manufacture, lens design, camera work, and sound recording technic, studio illumination, laboratory processing, sound reproduction, theater construction and operation, and applied cinematography. Besides representatives in the United States, men should be selected from each country or part of the world where a well-developed motion picture industry exists, as well as where research on cinematographic problems is in progress.
The widely separated geographical position of the members of the Committee makes it unfeasible to hold meetings so that all the committee work must be handled by correspondence. Each member should be instructed carefully relative to the scope of the field which he is to cover in his semi-annual report to the chairman. It is very desirable to distribute the abstracting work of the Committee members, and separate journals which are pertinent to the nature of their own work should be assigned to each member.
The reports from Committee members may be composed of any one of the following types of information:
(1) Abstracts of journals.
(2) Personal appraisals of conditions in their specific field.
(3) Answers to specific questions asked by the chairman.
A combination of classes (1) and (2) is the most valuable. The Committee members should realize that information that may sound commonplace to them because of their nearness to the source may be of outstanding interest to other branches of the industry.
Work Preliminary to the Preparation of the Report. — The past-chairman of the Committee has found a card file to be the most helpful means of coordinating the many hundreds of details which require final mention in the report. The contents of this file are assembled from three sources, namely: (1) clippings from one or more photographic abstract bulletins such as the Monthly Abstract Bulletin of the Kodak Research Laboratories, which contains patents as well as journal abstracts; (2) abstracts and summaries prepared by committee members; (3) miscellaneous data obtained from sources other than those mentioned under (1) and (2). One valuable source of