Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1929)

We SHOWMAN Section Motion Picture News October 5, 1929 Program of S. M. P. E. Papers MONDAY, OCTOBER 7 — Morning Session — "The Sound Situation in Europe" (By N. D. G-olden, Motion Picture Division Department of Commerce; "Cinematography in Soviet Russia" (by j eon Monsson, Am kino Corporation); Afternoon Session — "Some Characteristics of Sound," a Motion Picture Lecture (by Howard B. Santee, E.R.P. I.); "The Film Perforation and Means for Its Measurement" (by W. H. Carson, Agfa Ansco Corporation); "Sound Films for Surgical Instruction" (by Dr. P. E. Truesdale, Truesdale Sanitarium); "Film Numbering Device for Cameras and Recorders" (by M. W. Palmer, Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corporation) ; "Dimensional Analysis as an Aid to Miniature Cinematography" (by G. F. Hutchins, General Electric Company); "Lubrication of Sound Film" (by J. I, Crabtree, Eastman Kcdak Company). Evening Session — '"The Human Equation in Sound Picture Production" (by Terry Ramsaye, Pathe Exchange. Inc.); "Reactions of the Public to the Talking Picture" (by Harold B. Franklin, Fox West Coast Theatres, Inc.). TUESDAY, OCTOBER i 8th — Morning Session — "Some Funda mental Principles of Sound Recording and Reproduction" (by Wni. H. Offenhauser, RCA Photophone) ; "The Principles of Sound Recording and Reproduction by the Variable Density Photographic Method" (by D. MacKenzie, E.R.P.E.); "A Demonstration Talking Film" (by Dr. Kingdom, General Electric Company); "Studio Acoustics and Microphone Placement" (by J. P. Maxfield, E.R.P.L). Afternoon Session — "Some Aspects of Reverberation" (by E. W. Kellogg, General Electric Company); "The Optics of Motion Picture Projection" (by Professor Arthur C. Hardy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology); "A New Method of Blocking Out Splices in Sound Film" (by J. I. Crabtree and C. E. Ives, Eastman Kodak Company); "Photographic Characteristics of Sound Recording Film" (by L. A. Jones and O. Sandvik, Eastman Kodak Company); "Characteristics of Loud Speakers for Theatre Use" (by D. G. Blattner, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.); "Camera Mechanisms — Ancient and Modern" (by Arthur S. Newman, London, England), WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9th — Morning Session — "Eaily History of Motion Picture Cameras for Film Wider than 35 mm." (by Carl Louis Gregory) ; "Possibilities and Problems of the Wide Film" (by Loienzo Del Riccio, Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corporation); "Rectangle Proportions ' in Pictorial Compositicn" (by L. A. Jones, Eastman Kodak Company); "The Optics Involved in Photographing and Projecting of Wide Film" (by Dr. Win. Rayton, Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.); "Wide Films and Standardization" (by A. S. Howell and J. A. Dubray, Bell and Howell Co.); "The Wide Film fiom the Recording Standpoint" (by C. A. Tuthilt, Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corporation) ; Report of the Standardization Committee. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10th — Morning Session— "Artistic Considerations in Sound Film Production" (by Jce W. Coffnian, Carpenter-Goldman Laboratories, Inc.) ; ' 'A Rapid Method of Determining the Degiee of Exhaustion of a Developer" (by M. L. Dundon, G. H. Brown and J. G. Capstafi, Eastman Kodak Company) ; "Burn Out Phenomenon of the Tungsten Filament" (by Gordon T. Fonda, General Electric Company); "Water Cooling of Incandescent Lamps" (by Dr. Newell T. Gordon, General Electric Company); "Operating Characteristics of High Intensity Arcs" (by A. C. Downes, National Carbon Co.); "Some Properties of Chrome Alum Fixing Baths" (by J. I. Crabtree and J. F. Ross, Eastman Kodak Company. Afternoon Session — "Radiation Characteristics of Two Mercury Arcs" (by Dr. Frank Benf ord, . General Electric Company) ; "German Film Laboratory Technique" (by Walter K. Geyer, Geyer-Werke, Berlin); "A Studio Photometer" (by E. W. Beggs, Westinghouse Lamp Works). All Branches of Industry Interested in S. M. P. E. Toronto Meeting MEMBERS of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, founded in 1916, and since that time functioning as the source of information on technical matters and practices which have contributed to the advancement of the Motion Picture in its artistic, scientific and commercial application, meet for the Fall Convention in Toronto, Canada, on Monday, October 7th, to continue through sessions of 4 days. Well in advance of the announcement of the program of Papers to be presented at the meeting, the Fall Convention of the Society was looked to with especial interest and anticipation by the motion picture industry at large. Startling developments suddenly have put into the hands ofstudio and theatre workers new and strange instruments, the effective application of which demand special skill and knowledge. As the art and craft of motion picture production and presentation has grown, the need for more and more specialized knowledge has grown, and so the industry's workers and specialists look with eagerness to this established and reliable source for technical information and guidance in the application and further development of new-found resources. The attitude of considerable numbers expresses itself in the question, set forth and repeated in all branches of the industry, "what will the society do?" Special reference in the majority of cases is to subjects connected with sound recording and reproducing and the approaching change-over from the present standard of 35 mm. film to pictures of larger dimensions. It has been suggested in many quarters that the Society might initiate steps toward a standardization of these new wide film developments — and