Loudspeaker (Jan-Aug 1931)

in the dues of Academy members will cause most of our present associate members to request transfer to the full privileges of Academy membership. A review of Academy functions would be incomplete without reminding you of the national and international interest that has been aroused by the bestowal of the annual Academy award in the form of the gold statuette of merit. Ten awards will be voted by the Academy membership this fall, registering the judgment of the crafts upon the distinguished work of individual members of our profession. These awards are a coveted emblem of personal achievement, the highest honor the industry can pay a member. Mr. Louis B. Mayer, chairman of the Awards Committee, has in process plans whereby the annual awards dinner of the Academy, to be held the first week in November, will bring together in Hollywood the notables of the industry from all parts of the United States. This event promises to be the greatest in size and in importance in the thirty years of the history of motion picture making. It is to such an institution that the Board of Directors have invited you to membership. The Academy needs you and you need the collective spirit and benefits of the Academy. Scores of our members serving on Academy boards and committees can testify to the pleasure they derive from this fellowship of service which has become an integral and vital part of this great business.” Mr. deMille introduced the following who spoke of the branch activities of the Academy: Conrad Nagel and Sam Hardy, who spoke for the actors; A1 Cohn and Waldemar Young for the writers, Frank Lloyd for the directors, Col. Nugent H. Slaughter and J. T. Reed for the technicians and M. C. Levee for the producers. Mr. B. P. Schulberg, chief executive of Paramount’s West Coast studio as part host of the dinner, presented a picture program in the theatre of the Eight studio following the dinner which was attended by 150 members and invitees to membership. i 1 i Little Willies' Definitions Water is composed of two gins — Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin, Hydrogin is gin and water. A magnet is a thing that you find in a bad apple. The tides are a fight between the earth and the moon. All water tends towards the moon because there is no water on the moon and nature abhors a vacuum. Gravitation at the earth keeps the water rising all the way to the moon. I forget where the sun joins in this fight. Three states of water are high water, low water and breakwater. i i i USE OF RESISTORS IN ATTENUATION DEVICES Attenuators or ‘pads” as they are sometimes called, are employed for the purpose of introducing into the amplifying system a definite amount of loss. Such devices consist essentially of a network of series and shunt resistors whose values determine the amount of loss introduced. Accuracy of the resistor units is absolutely essential if the calibration of the attenuator is to be reliable, and permanence of value of these resistors is essential if the attenuator is to maintain this calibration. Since these attenuation devices are employed in audio frequency work, the calibration must be accurate over wide bands of frequencies. Therefore, the resistors must be free of inductance and capacity effects. Confronted with such rigid specifications, the engineers of the International Resistance Company set to work some time ago developing special units to meet the requirements. — Reprinted from Projection Engineering.