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MANAGERS AND PROJECTIONISTS 1229
To the President and members of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers in convention assembled :
Gentlemen: The Society has seen fit to give official recognition to the importance of motion picture projection and the motion picture projectionist by the appointment of a standing committee on projection.
After due deliberation, and after consultation with the various members of the committee, it was decided to concentrate our first efforts upon the compilation of a statement of what constitutes the fundamental requirements of the modern projection room. Our decision in this matter was based upon the fact that, while it is true some matter has appeared in the trade press and considerable appears in the Bluebook of Projection, there is not available to the architect, except at the expense of a great deal of time and trouble to himself, a complete, correlated and comprehensive, yet concise, treatise on the requirements of the modern projection room, and the fundamental requirements which must be satisfied if results which can be adjudged acceptable, according to modern standards, are to be obtained and (what is of equal importance and difficulty) maintained.
And, gentlemen, there is great need for such a treatise. The lack of any authoritative standards to which architects may refer has resulted in a very large number of poorly planned projection rooms, and a still greater number which are hopelessly inadequate for modern motion picture and sound picture projection.
Your committee therefore selected as the subject for its first report The Fundamental Requirements of the Modern Theatre Projection Room, the various items of which will be set forth in their order, together with such recommendations as may seem proper.