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Report of the President
rplms is THE fourth semiannual report which I, as President, have J_ had the honor of presenting to the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. It will be a review of the high lights of activity during the two-year period of my presidency.
The scope of Society activity has been denned to include all phases of pictorial rendition of action; whether it be from film, as in motion pictures, electronics, as in television, or other device. As will be apparent later in this report your Society is doing an able job in each of these fields.
Under the guidance of Paul J. Larsen the Society of Motion Picture Engineers was the initiating and only active body in gaining frequency allocations for theater television. This activity has been carried on through the years until now our efforts have gained recognition and individual companies in the industry are applying for and gaining frequency allocations which this Society made available to this industry.
The Society of Motion Picture Engineers stands out as a world leader in thinking and action in the field of theater television. The "firsts" which were brought about as a result of Society demonstrations are numerous and interesting. Some of them are listed below:
1 . The use of television facilities as a visual public-address system.
2. The use of television facilities as a means of instruction — both to show close-ups of equipment and instructor.
3. The showing of members of the audience on the screen to the entire audience.
4. The filming, fast processing, and television projection of persons entering a meeting room.
5. The presentation of television on a twenty-foot screen.
6. The presentation of a television-broadcast pickup of a sports event and the immediate playing of a film transcription of the same event in order that the audience might again watch the high lights of the sport in action.
The papers on the art of television which are now published in the JOUKNAL stand out as the one authentic record and statement of technical fact in regard to all phases of television as applied to motion pictures.
The standardization work of the Society holds an important position, as there are now more standards as applied to motion pictures than to any other industry. This is important to this industry for it * Presented October 26, 1948, at the SMPE Convention in Washington.
JANUARY, 1949 JOURNAL OF THE SMPE VOLUME 52 3